The Asbury Park High School football team took to weeding Thursday morning at Interfaith Neighbors’ Kula Urban Farm and around the Springwood Avenue Center that houses Kula Café and the Senior Center. The community service endeavor was a collaboration between Interfaith Neighbors and the school district’s College and Career Readiness program, with guidance from the […]

After months of working to secure funds to purchase official Little Free Libraries, locations for them to be placed in the city, and books to fill them, city resident Anita Weiner is set to reveal the first Little Free Library at the corner of Springwood and Atkins avenue during an unveiling ceremony beginning at 11 […]

The sounds of deep blues music have returned to the west side of Asbury Park, once the city’s stronghold of influential blues, soul and jazz music. Kula Café, located in the Springwood Center on Springwood Avenue and owned by Interfaith Neighbors, now hosts “Deep Blue Blues Night” on the first and third Thursdays of each month. […]

Kula Café has successfully graduated and placed their first group of students in Asbury Park restaurants. Situated in the Springwood Center on Springwood Avenue, the restaurant is both a community café and a job training program. Local youth who face “profound obstacles to employment,” like lack of education and having children of their own, are […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun: My family has been a part of this community for over 100 years and I have been a resident of Asbury Park for 79 years. I’ve seen this city’s ups and its downs. I served on the city council for four years and on the police force for 29 years. […]

A new community restaurant is opening on Monday and the general public is invited to partake in the festivities. Kula Café will offer food at low prices [including pork sliders, pictured at right] and serve as a training ground for unemployed and underemployed adults. The participants will learn how to work in the restaurant industry, […]

A new organization is working to help entrepreneurs realize their full potential in the Asbury area. The Business Development Center [BDC], owned by Interfaith Neighbors, is located on the first floor of the Springwood Center. They conduct workshops and give classes to teach area residents how to run a business. Roger Boyce [pictured above, left], […]

The city’s senior citizens are ready to roll thanks to a bus to be purchased through funds Bruce Springsteen donated to the city several years ago. Around 2005, Springsteen donated money to nonprofits throughout the city, as well as a gift of $200,000 to the city itself to offset the purchase of the YMCA building […]

The city is borrowing about $850,000 to fund several projects that were previously approved by the council. These costs “had not [been] provided adequate liquidity or cash,” Kaplan said at the Dec. 5 council meeting. One ordinance was to fund the new senior center, built in the Springwood Center on Springwood Avenue. That project cost […]

The city council approved a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes program for the Springwood Center at the Nov. 19 council meeting. The program allows local nonprofit group Interfaith Neighbors to pay 5.5 percent of their annual gross revenue from the building for the first 15 years of the center’s existence. After that, payment will increase incrementally over 20 years […]