New York Times bestselling author and cancer survivor Caridad Pineiro is partnering with her daughter Samantha Scordato, also a writer, to support of Mary’s Place by the Sea, a respite home for women receiving treatment for cancer. “I was lucky that my cancer was caught early, but I have seen family and friends suffer with […]

An Asbury Park and Neptune City man were charged in relation to a car theft and burglaries in Ocean Township. Thomas Beerman, 22, of Neptune City was charged with three counts of burglary, motor vehicle theft, criminal mischief and possession of burglary tools, Ocean Township Police Department spokesman Det. Lt. Kevin L. Faller said. Beerman […]

A bright, warm classroom on the third floor of The Jersey Shore Arts Center  will Friday be home to a new yoga studio, ‘Ohana Rising. Lisa Brodrick, a certified yoga instructor and teacher trainer who has spent over a decade as a schoolteacher at Asbury Park’s Little Tots Pre-K, has leased the space for a […]

Asbury Park has scored next-to-last among the eight cities surveyed in New Jersey that measures the LGBT “friendliness” of cities across the nation, according to a report released by the Human Rights Campaign [HRC]. Nearby Ocean Grove ranked second, along with New Brunswick. The HRC’s Municipal Equality Index scrutinizes the laws, policies, and services of […]

A group of Neptune property owners withdrew their petition seeking a referendum to repeal the township’s new rent control ordinance after the discovery that a number of signatures on the petition may have been forged. Blaming a vendor retained to collect the signatures, a representative of the group said today that they would refer the matter […]

Rental properties in Ocean Grove and Neptune Township that contain three or four units are no longer subject to rent control. The Neptune Township Committee [pictured above] on Monday approved an amendment to increase the threshold for minimum exemptions under the township’s rent control ordinance and established a rent leveling board to oversee rent control regulations. […]

The Neptune Township Committee has rejected all bids for replacement of a collapsed portion of the Wesley Lake retaining wall. All of the bids received by the July 17 deadline were rejected because they exceeded the available funding allotment and the engineer’s estimate for the project’s cost, said Leanne Hoffman, director of engineering and planning […]

The Neptune Township Committee has plans to change a rent control ordinance that was approved just two weeks ago. Members of the committee [shown above] introduced an amendment to the measure at their Monday meeting that exempts any dwelling with four or less rental units from the ordinance. The original language of the ordinance exempted […]

Emotions ran high during last night’s two hour public hearing on a rent control ordinance the Neptune Township Committee passed 5-0, with one committee member using an expletive on the record. Under the ordinance, rent increases in Ocean Grove and Neptune will be capped by the regional consumer price index. A rent leveling board will […]

In front of a packed meeting room, the Neptune Township Committee last night approved a rent control ordinance by a 5-0 vote. Under the ordinance, rent increases are linked to the regional consumer price index. Rental properties throughout Neptune and Ocean Grove are subject to the ordinance. The ordinance establishes a five-member rent leveling board […]