The 13th Annual Surfrider Foundation: Jersey Shore Chapter Family Day on the beach in Asbury Park returns Saturday.  The free noon to 5 pm beach day features food, surf lessons, beach volleyball, a scavenger hunt, live music from Stringbean Blues, and a beach clean-up aimed at sharing the importance of coastal preservation, said Mike Castellano, […]

The Surfrider Foundation, Jersey Coast Chapter, and COBRA: Citizens in Opposition to Beach Restrictive Access, is leading a charge to save a beach access point Deal officials plan to vote on vacating during a 9 am Wednesday Board of Commissioners’ meeting. First introduced on Nov 9, the ordinance seeks to vacate the street end at […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, The Surfrider Foundation: Jersey Shore Chapter would like to thank the City of Asbury Park for introducing an ordinance to ban the intentional release of balloons! Our chapter helped to advocate for this ordinance, which would protect our coast from senseless pollution. On August 22, 2018, the City of Asbury Park […]

Democratic Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. will join Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker at 11:15 a.m. on the north side deck of Taylor Pavilion located at Fifth and Ocean avenues in Belmar to stress opposition to the Trump administration’s exploration of offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean. The three led the fight to remove dangerous […]

Earth Day celebrations, in part, may have been postponed by a day due to inclement weather but that did not stop hundreds from turning out Sunday in support of a collaborative mission to preserve local [and global] environmental resources. The day began with hundreds gathering for the Earth Day Creative Protest at Sixth Avenue beach […]

Due to rain, the Earth Day Creative Protest scheduled along Asbury Park’s north beach area and the Rally on the Roof at Asbury Festhalle & Biergarten has been postponed to Sunday. All event details remain the same, organizers said. The local event is a collaboration between Women’s March Asbury Park organizers and the Asbury Park […]

There’s no secret that litter, particularly plastics, is a threat to the nation’s oceans and waterways. But what is hardly known, is a grassroots movement organized by individual chapters of the Surfrider Foundation that is beginning to take hold. Working to rehabilitate the worst offenders, the Rise Above Plastics campaign is aimed at changing dependency […]

Hundreds of people held signs and chanted, “Our beach,” at a rally Saturday to save the North End beach area from the Bradley Cove townhouse development. The event, which was preceded by a dune-grass planting, drew close to 300 supporters. Representatives from the American Littoral Society, Clean Ocean Action, Surfrider Foundation and Citizens for Oceanfront […]