About 35 city residents incensed by the state monitor’s recent decision to reject the board’s choice for superintendent showed up to the Board of Education meeting Wednesday, several of whom openly voiced their frustrations in a public hearing session that lasted close to two hours long. Members of the Asbury Park community who spoke out criticized the […]

A new state monitor has been assigned to the Asbury Park School District. Outgoing state monitor Lester Richens [shown above, at right] will transfer to the Pleasantville School District. He will be replaced by Carole Morris [left]. Richens has served the district since May 2011. Morris served as superintendent of schools in Manasquan for 25 […]

The board of education voted not to renew an agreement with the Asbury Park Police Department, but state fiscal monitor Lester Richens has said he may overturn their decision. The board agreed last year to pay the police department $75,000 per year to patrol the area around the Asbury Park Middle School. But some board […]