There’s a ‘Secret Santa’ running around town distributing $100 gift cards to Asbury Park students. This England born Santa has an Irish heritage and runs a little pub called Johnny Mac House of Spirits, located on Main Street in Asbury Park. With his wife Mary in tow, John McGillion spent the week shopping for the […]

 In the midst of performing a record breaking 100 events this season, Holiday Express made a stop at Sisters Academy, on Springwood Avenue. The nonprofit is celebrating its 25 year anniversary by adding 17 more stops to schedule of spreading spreading holiday cheer and human kindness by delivering music, food, gifts, financial support, and friendship […]

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 […]

Students at Sisters Academy of New Jersey are prepared to save lives after completing a training session from the very individuals who respond after disaster strikes — the American Red Cross. Each of the school’s 60 students successfully completed a Red Cross babysitting, pediatric first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR] training program Friday. The six-and-a-half hour […]