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Asbury Park

Asbury Mayor won’t seek reelection next year

Johnson has served on the city council since 2005

By Asbury Park Sun


Mayor Ed Johnson announced this morning that he will not seek reelection for another four-year term in next year’s May council election. “Just as Asbury Park has embarked on a new era, so must I,” Johnson said in a statement posted on his website. “It is time for me to take pause from my civic […]

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Jul 26, 2012
Asbury Park

City Council introduces charter study measure

Elected commission could propose scuttling structure of government in place since 1920s

By Asbury Park Sun


Led by Councilman John Loffredo and Mayor Ed Johnson, both shown above, the city council introduced an ordinance last night to establish an elected commission to review the city’s form of government — with the power to submit changes to voters that would scuttle a system believed to date back to the 1920s. “It’s time,” Loffredo immediately stated when the matter was brought […]

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Apr 05, 2012