Testimony in the Asbury Park election lawsuit before Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Dennis O’Brien begins Monday. The lawsuit, filed by unsuccessful A-Team candidate Remond Palmer and Arva M. Council [shown above], seeks to have 343 vote-by-mail [VBM] ballots that were disqualified by the Monmouth County Board of Elections counted into the record. Palmer ran […]

The New Year brought a new set of city officials to municipal hall. A capacity crowd in council chambers Thursday witnessed John Moor sworn in as the city’s first directly elected mayor and his running mates on the Asbury Together ticket — Jessie Kendle, Amy Quinn, Yvonne Clayton and Joe Woerner — take oaths as […]

The incoming city council has announced it will not reappoint City Manager Jack Kelly [above] after they take office on January 1. As a result of a change of government referendum approved by voters last year, a new council was elected this past November and various key positions have to be reappointed after January 1. […]

Asbury Park city officials are looking to see if their professional staff is producing the most bang for the city’s buck. Under the direction of the city council, the administration issued a request for qualifications Monday for several positions to see what else is available in the current market. Positions include the city’s labor attorney, […]

At their Wednesday meeting, a majority of city council members voted to update an ordinance that gives preference to job applicants who have an Asbury Park address. If the ordinance passes, city residents — defined as any person whose permanent home is within city limits — would get even more priority consideration for non-uniformed classified civil service […]

[Editor’s note: In an effort to provide Sun readers and Asbury Park candidates who seek to be elected as the city’s first directly-elected mayor with the most fair and accurate election coverage, the Sun sat down with each of the four mayoral candidates and asked them the same ten questions. No candidates were provided advanced […]

Councilman John Moor, who is running for mayor in the November election, has a pending legal claim against the city. “I filed a worker’s comp case in 2009 saying I was injured at work and I’m waiting for it to [be litigated],” Moor said. Moor [shown at right] was an employee of the city’s public […]

Asbury Park City Council candidates from the Asbury Together ticket will host a kickoff party at words! bookstore on Friday, Sept. 12 from 6 to 8 p.m., according to a campaign release. Members of the Asbury Park community are invited to meet the Asbury Together candidates [shown above, from left to right], John Moor, Amy Quinn, Jesse […]

Asbury Park council members John B. Moor and Amy Quinn have filed to run for re-election along with three running mates. 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 select their mayor. The petition lists Moor, […]

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 […]