On Sunday, Asbury Park will celebrate the rebirth of St. John’s Island at Sunset Park. Once a popular destination for kids to play, wedding ceremonies, concerts, ice cream socials, and even those just looking to catch a few rays, the plot of land sat desolate for years. Now, efforts that began almost one year ago […]

City officials have launched an informal survey to gauge interest for a dog park within city limits. Residents are being asked to click ok if amenable and then answer two questions: In which of the four city neighborhoods do they reside and whether or not they own a dog. Please only one response per household, […]

Meetings, this week, to find an alternative location for the Asbury Park Skateboard Foundation’s proposed project did not prove fruitful, according to a Thursday afternoon conversation with Mayor John Moor. Moor and City Manager Michael Capabianco held Tuesday meetings with Housing Authority and School District officials to determine whether property the two entities own could […]

The Asbury Park Skateboarding Foundation, having obtained its 501 (c) (3) nonprofit status, can now apply for grants and donations to fund its proposed skateboarding park. But where the park will be located is not set in stone. Last week the Foundation’s organizers wrote an open letter to the community. The letter came after questions […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, If you read the headlines of last week’s triCityNews, you’d get a visual of some environmental folks on one side of a park and some angry skateboarders on the other, waiting for the referee’s whistle, before charging full steam at one another in some primitive “winner take all event”. That’s hardly […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, Ancient laws from the time of the Roman Empire held that the seas, the shores of the seas, the air and running water was common to everyone. This law became the internationally accepted Public Trust Doctrine. It is a law that requires all governments to hold in trust all public lands with universal public […]

Plans for a park within the city where dogs can run off-leash are still in the works despite a summer-long delay in the planning process. The transition of three newly elected members to the city council in July postponed the plans for the dog park, said Councilwoman Sue Henderson, who also serves on the dog […]

Two public hearings are scheduled to take place in Asbury Park Thursday evening — one in consideration of a dog park and the other on the search for a new superintendent of schools. The dog park committee will meet at 7 p.m. in the city council chambers. The committee will present research and plans and listen to […]

After months of research and meetings, the dog park committee is proposing a location for a place in the city where dogs can run off-leash. The committee, which was formed in August 2012, has picked the stretch of Sunset Park between Bond and Emory streets for the dog park, city manager and committee member Terence […]

Area residents will get a taste of Latin American culture this fall when Nosotros Spanish-language newspaper holds its first Carnaval Latino in Sunset Park. “It’s going to be a multi-cultural event — different Latin cultures,” said Nosotros publisher Cecilia Reynolds [pictured at right]. “We want the families in Asbury Park and other towns to come […]