A petition to recall sitting Councilman Jesse Kendle, elected into office November 2014, can move forward, City Clerk Cindy Dye said. The recall petition was brought by a Committee comprised of residents Duanne Small, Mabin Womble, and Brian Bass. The approval comes one month after the committee filed a notice petition. Dye said the Committee […]

A Notice of Intention to recall Councilman Jesse Kendle from his four-year seat on the Asbury Park City Council has been filed with the municipal clerk’s office. In a Jan. 29 letter to recall petitioners Duane Small, Mabin Womble, and Brian Bass – who comprise the Committee to recall Kendle — the city determined the […]

The Asbury Park chapter of the National Action Network is sponsoring a Unity Rally on Main Street and a United Gospel Festival at the Paramount Theatre Saturday, Oct. 11, with Rev. Al Sharpton as the gospel show’s keynote speaker. The Unity Rally starts at 1 p.m. in Bradley Park, located on the block west of […]

Asbury Park City Council candidates from the A-Team — Zero Tolerance ticket will host a “meet the candidates” event at the West Side Community Center on Thursday, Oct. 9, from 7 to 10 p.m., according to the group’s Facebook page. Members of the Asbury Park community are invited to come out and meet the A-Team […]

The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office has closed an investigation of voter fraud during the May 2013 Asbury Park City Council elections. No criminal charges have been filed in connection with the investigation, according to Charles Webster, spokesman for the prosecutor’s office. Investigators from the Prosecutor’s Office executed a search warrant in May 2013 at the […]

Another full ticket, the “A-Team,” has filed to run in the Asbury Park City Council elections. All five council seats are up for grabs in the November 4 election and it will be the first time in the city’s history voters will directly elect their mayor. On the “A-Team” ticket, former Board of Education member […]

City officials are in the midst of reviewing sections of agreements drawn up with waterfront redevelopers that outline developers’ responsibilities to hire local workers and purchase local building products. The agreements with master waterfront redeveloper Asbury Partners [majority owned by iStar Financial] and boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette contain language that the developers make efforts to […]

The four year term of Asbury Park’s new City Council will be cut short after voters approved a change of government referendum on Tuesday. An election will take place next year in November to select a new governing body. The current five-member council [above] was sworn in on July 1. According to unofficial returns from the Monmouth […]

A directly-elected mayor, staggered terms and run-off elections are among the recommendations the city’s charter study commission [above] will submit to Asbury Park voters in a referendum this November. Also in the package of changes is moving the municipal election from May to November. If voters approve the recommendations, new elections will take place next […]

The city’s charter study commission — which has the power to place a referendum on the November ballot changing how Asbury Park organizes its government and municipal elections — has two more meetings scheduled as it grapples with its final recommendations. The commission [above at its last meeting] has until August 5 to issue its […]