Editor, Asbury Park Sun, I am responding to the looming construction crane being lit up at night as a sign of iStar’s progress on the waterfront. I do think it’s a great idea for iStar to start communicating much better with the citizens of the town about what progress is being made. There is a […]

NJ MediaWorks will partner with the Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce and 94.3 The Point Boardwalk Radio broadcast for a live, two hour video webcast at noon Monday, Sept 4. Presented as an electronic brochure of the vibrant life in Asbury Park, a broad array of community leaders, in their own respective segments of town, […]

A group of city volunteers work each year to beautify the beach and boardwalk amenities to ready for the summer season. Think spring cleaning AP beach style. What began in 2012 with a close to 40 volunteer crew working to refurbish and recolor city-owned booths, receptacles, and lifeguard benches, continues annually with a bit of […]

On Thursday, July 24 at 3:45 p.m., Asbury Park’s Cable Television Advisory Committee [APTV] broadcast to home television sets for the first time in the station’s history. The local station has been uploading recorded City Council meetings and other content to the internet since January of 2014, and now Asbury Park area residents can view the […]

The city’s Cable Television Advisory Committee [APTV] has started negotiations with school district officials to begin taping Asbury Park Board of Education meetings. “We’re in talks with the board of education, for the board to start having representation on APTV,” said APTC board chair John Kaplow [pictured above in the APTV studio in City Hall]. […]

Asbury Park city council candidates will go head-to-head at Tuesday night’s debate-style election forum, presented by APTV. “The meet-and-greets are over,” said APTV chair John Kaplow. “This is the real informational exchange.” Residents are encouraged to go to asburyparktv.org to submit questions for the moderators to ask the candidates, Kaplow said. The League of Women […]

The city’s Cable Advisory Committee, APTV, has announced it will give Asbury Park council candidates a chance to speak their minds at a forum on Tuesday, April 30. The event will be held at VFW Post 1333, at 701 Lake Ave., and moderated by the League of Women Voters, Ocean Township section. The forum will […]

The Cable Advisory Committee is laying the groundwork for a city-operated television station to become a reality. The group met last night after its members were approved at the Jan. 2 council meeting. John Kaplow [pictured above] was selected as chairperson at last night’s meeting. The committee also elected Doug Ferrari as vice chairman and […]

An Asbury-centric cable television station could be on its way to TVs around the city, as the council officially formed a cable television advisory committee at its meeting on Dec. 5. The council has not yet selected the committee’s nine members. They will likely pick members at the next meeting on Dec. 19, according to […]

The city of Asbury Park is on the way to having its own cable station thanks to city resident and volunteer John Kaplow. “In a town like this that has a wide degree of residents in terms of background, income and education, something like this is a great leveler,” Kaplow said of his motivation to […]