In a written letter posted Sunday via social media, Environmental Shade Tree Commission Chair Tom Pivinski announced a new garden is underway along Fifth Avenue at Sunset Lake, west of Veterans Park.  “In response to the domestic terrorism in our country and our city, the Friends of the Asbury Park Environmental Shade Tree Commission [ESTC] […]

[Scroll down to read Mayor John Moor’s response.] Editor, the Asbury Park Sun, This is going to be short and to the point. While the shooting on July 4th was a harrowing experience to many, how many shootings have taken part in Asbury Park prior to that? Have we ever seen the Council address the […]

During last night’s Council Meeting, we addressed the shooting that occurred last week on July 4th. The incident took place on Asbury Park boardwalk in the area of 1st and Ocean Avenues after the fireworks, injuring two people. Luckily, the injuries were non-life threatening. City Council would like to thank the first responders, police and firefighters […]

A 16-year-old juvenile is in custody following a ‘shots fired’ incident on the Asbury Park boardwalk following the Fourth of July firework’s display, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced. The incident left two people injured. One victim, a 55-year-old female and an employee of a nearby business on the boardwalk, sustained a non-life-threatening wound […]

Fourth of July Fireworks display in Asbury Park Thursday ended with a reported shooting, Mayor John Moor confirmed.  “I don’t know all the details but there was a shooting,” Moor said via a telephone conversation. “I do know one person was transported to Jersey Shore [University Medical Center].”  Moor said he obtained the information from […]

Two community events will be taking place at local churches this weekend. First up is the 10 am to noon Survivors of Everyday Gun Violence Listening Project and Vigil at Second Baptist Church, located at 124 Atkins Ave. The featured guest speaker is Regina Thompson-Jenkins, whose son Tre Devon Lane died after shielding two friends […]

A Neptune Township teen charged with fatally shooting death 10-year-old Yovanni Banos-Merino in Asbury Park back in February will face those charges in an adult court, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni has announced. A Superior Court judge has ruled that Jah-Del K. Birch, 17, of Embury Avenue in Neptune Township, now faces adult charges […]

An unidentified male shooting victim is in stable condition at an area hospital following early Sunday morning reports of shots fired along Langford Street, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni announced via written statement Monday afternoon. The Asbury Park Police Department responded near 1:11 a.m. Sunday to the area of 100 Langford street, officials said. Officers […]

At Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Middle School in Asbury Park, where district officials have made strides to ‘Build a Brighter Future’ for its students, Gov Phil Murphy Friday signed an executive order that aims to stay gun violence across the state. “It is appropriate, this week of all weeks, to be in a school named […]

The advocacy for gun control and rally against gun violence lands at The Asbury Wednesday in the form of a Concert Movement to End Gun Violence.   The concert event is a fundraiser in support of advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, held in partnership with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, which […]