Editor, Asbury Park Sun, Thank you for publishing Yvonne Clayton’s recent passionate letter to the Asbury Park Sun. We wish you would republish it every week leading up to the November election; for those who haven’t read it, simply go back on this site to find it. Too many people with “agendas” are trying to […]

When Dean LaSasso opened his Italian specialty food venue along Main Street in Asbury Park 13 years ago, it was for the convenient location and the hope that it would help bring progress to the downtown area. Today, the Dino’s on Main Marketplace owner says the neighborhood is suffering the abuse of weekend bar patrons […]

While plans are in motion to increase patrol in the downtown where disorderly behavior complaints are on the rise, the police department will not alter patrol in high crime areas throughout the city, Acting Police Chief Anthony Salerno said. What will occur is an earlier deployment of the department’s foot and bicycle patrols following Friday’s […]

It’s a daunting task that was readily embraced by two dozen of Asbury Park’s most adventurous teens. These Asbury Park middle school aged students signed on in December for Interfaith Neighbor’s 14-week Junior Entrepreneur Training [JET] program, meeting afterschool on Thursdays since February in the Springwood Center. Under the direction of volunteer business mentors, students […]

The Asbury Park City Council will vote to introduce an ordinance Wednesday during its 7 p.m Regular session meeting that manages its parking throughout the Central Business District Area of Cookman, Bangs, Lake, and Mattison Avenues and in the waterfront area. The changes include shifting metered parking costs from a flat hourly rate to one […]