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Pulse Nightclub Victims Remembered in Asbury Park

Paul: Today, we choose to celebrate love and not hate

By Michelle Gladden


The Pulse nightclub massacre second anniversary was commemorated Tuesday with a moment of silence, poetry reading, song, and thanks for a community that rose to help plant the memorial grove in Library Square Park, bordered by Heck Street, Asbury, First, and Grand avenues. “Two years ago we experienced one of the worst travesties in modern […]

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Jun 13, 2018
Asbury Park

Asbury Park Community Honors 49 Victims On Anniversary Of Pulse Nightclub Massacre

Over 100 gathered Monday at the Orlando Memorial Grove in the City's Library Square Park

By Michelle Gladden


Monday night’s Pulse Memorial gathering in Library Square Park was not only a moment for the Asbury Park community to remember the 49 individuals who lost their lives one year prior when 29-year-old Omar Mateen, a security guard armed with a SIG Sauer MCX semi-automatic rifle and a 9mm Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol attacked the […]

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Jun 13, 2017