The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall. A closed executive session will start at 5 p.m., followed by the regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on the agenda include: • Executive session discussions pertaining […]

Moving home ownership from a dream to reality is behind the 20-year collaboration between New Jersey Natural Gas [NJNG] and Interfaith Neighbors. What began in 1996, with a $25,000 donation to Interfaith Neighbors for an Asbury Park home restoration project, has grown to a total of 100 affordable homes provided through the utility company’s Home […]

Interfaith Neighbor’s Business Development Center has announced a new workshop series aimed at helping entrepreneurs and small business owners maneuver the marketing terrain. In the past few months, the city has seen a growth in the opening of small businesses by local entrepreneurs. In the Main Street district Chocolate Sage, Dark City Brewing Co, Parkemoor, […]

It’s a daunting task that was readily embraced by two dozen of Asbury Park’s most adventurous teens. These Asbury Park middle school aged students signed on in December for Interfaith Neighbor’s 14-week Junior Entrepreneur Training [JET] program, meeting afterschool on Thursdays since February in the Springwood Center. Under the direction of volunteer business mentors, students […]

Asbury Park Music Foundation [APMF] is among 15 nonprofits awarded a national Mortimer and Mimi Levitt Foundation grant Tuesday. “We are so thrilled,” Executive Director Matthew Hockenjos said. “We are so happy to finally get word of this grant and we can’t thank the public enough because they really got us there with their votes.” […]

Need to Feed started quietly outside the front doors of the Kula Café on Springwood Avenue but quickly grew into a city staple. Offering free soup and sandwiches to those in need every Monday afternoon, Need to Feed is an Interfaith Neighbors’ supported food program that stemmed from the nonprofit’s New Jersey Youth Corps program, […]

April 9th is the end goal for 30 Asbury Park middle-schoolers who took their first step this weekend in becoming entrepreneurs. “I want to learn about starting my own business,” said Mekhi Birch, 12, who has aspiration of becoming a software developer for the video and computer gaming industry. Mekhi is among those who joined […]

Private work by city employees came into question during Monday night’s City Council Workshop meeting. Westside Community Executive Director Lori Ross had raised the matter at previous council meetings, saying it was her understanding that city employees were doing work at private properties while on the city’s timeclock. Acting City Manager Anthony Nuccio said he […]

Junior Entrepreneur Training [JET] members are readying for their first business venture at Saturday’s Made in Monmouth Expo at Monmouth University. The group’s 17 middle school-aged students, who were divided into two groups, will sell their handmade chocolate covered treats and fashion forward tees during the 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. annual vendor event. And while […]

The legislative budgetary cuts known as sequestration has the Asbury Park-based Interfaith Neighbors saying no to those in need of its Meal on Wheels program. “For the first time, we have a waiting list of over 120 people,” Interfaith Neighbors’ Nutrition Director Sandi Silber said. “We have 21 people over 90 years old on that […]