Three Asbury Park community leaders are among those being honored next month at Brookdale Community College’s 32nd Annual Wilbur Ray Awards Dinner. Asbury Park School District Superintendent Lamont Repollet, Konscious Youth Development Service [KYDS] founder Mychal Mills, and Sportz Farm founder Diteko Hammary are among the nine Monmouth County community leaders and volunteers being recognized. […]

Konscious Youth Development and Service [KYDS] has quickly established itself as a city staple, growing its holistic youth programs organically. In the two years since Monmouth University graduates Mychal Mills, 29, of Neptune [below left] and Rodney Salomon, 29, of Marlboro [below right], launched the nonprofit’s open mic night entitled ‘One Mic One Soul’ at Kula […]

The Asbury Park Junior Entrepreneur Training [JET] Program returns this year under the guidance of Konscious Youth Development and Services. Kicking off its third year on Nov. 12, the program has drawn the interest of a record number of middle students from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Hope […]

One year ago Monmouth University graduates [shown above] Mychal Mills and Rodney Salomon, both 28, set out to combat some of the things that can plague urban neighborhoods. Be it poverty, crime, gangs, drug abuse or alcoholism, the pair quietly took a holistic approach to what has become an increasingly popular Open Mic Night at […]