Mercy Center Turkey Drive With the goal of providing 250 Thanksgiving baskets, Mercy Center will be collecting 10 to 15 pound turkeys from 8:30 .m. to 4 p.m. through Wednesday. Located at 1106 Main Street, the support agency offers services and programs for economically disadvantaged and vulnerable children and families in Asbury Park. For more […]

The public is invited to join Sisters Academy 8th-grade students as they launch their handmade boat. They will be joined by Ranney School students who will be launching their watercraft as well. The culmination of a semester-long project administered in partnership with Project USE, the inaugural sail will occur at 8 a.m. Saturday at Deal […]

Newscaster Toni Yates will be the featured guest speaker during this year’s Third Annual Circle of Mercy fundraising breakfast to support Asbury Park’s Sisters Academy. Yates [at right], who serves as the New Jersey Reporter for ABC7 Eyewitness News, will deliver remarks during the 8:30 a.m. Oct. 7 free event at the Springwood Avenue middle […]

Mercy Center’s Sisters Academy of New Jersey graduated ten girls from its independent middle school Wednesday. Founded in 1997, Sisters Academy of New Jersey serves grades five to eight. The Mercy Center program is focused on empowering young women to break out of their community’s cycle of poverty in order to fulfill the visions they […]

[Correction: Holiday fundraising bash occurs 3 p.m. Sunday – a previous posting incorrectly stated the event was being held Saturday] Local record label Little Dickman Records and Jersey Shore music blog CoolDad Music are throwing their annual holiday party to raise food and funds for Asbury Park’s Mercy Center this weekend. Founded by the Sisters […]

World renowned author Mary Higgins Clark will join in celebrating seventh-grader Jasmine Bostic’s first published novel during the annual Mercy Center’s Sisters Academy of New Jersey ‘Circle of Mercy Breakfast.’ While Higgins Clark has penned well over 50 suspense novels, this is the middle school student’s first work, written this past fall as part of […]