Seven months before Sea.Hear.Now festival along Asbury Park’s waterfront unleashes a new lineup of entertainment, art, food and surf talents, organizers have announced general admission and VIP tickets are sold out. “We’re blown away by the support for Sea.Hear.Now – all General Admission and VIP Tickets are officially sold out, organizers said in a written […]

The Asbury Park Police Department has announced no parking areas associated with the Sea.Hear.Now festival will begin 7:30 a.m. Friday and run through the inaugural music, art and surf event’s end on Sunday evening. The no parking areas are: -Ocean Ave between Seventh Ave and Fourth Ave -Seventh Ave between Kingsley St and Ocean Ave […]

What began at 7 a.m. wrapped up by mid afternoon Tuesday just in time for the Fourth of July celebrations to begin. “A morning and afternoon later….. Asbury Park… tough sand,” master sand castle artist Matt Long said via social media after sculpting the holiday tribute that honors the city’s history and its upcoming inaugural […]

Sea. Hear. Now. organizers are inviting the public to catch master sandcastle builder Matt Long pay tribute to the city by the sea. “Sand castles are intrinsic to the history of Asbury Park,” festival co founder and city resident Tim Donnelly said. Long, also known as the ‘sandman,’ was a cast member on the Travel […]

Saturday’s expected snow storm would cause most to hunker down. This is not the case for surf pros participating in Sunday’s Cold War surf competition in Asbury Park.  A hand- picked group of surfers from up and down the East Coast have signed on to compete in the second annual winter surfing contest, organizer Tim […]

An estimated 1,000 students from middle school through college pitched in to plant dune grasses and install snow fencing at North End beach this week. Starting on Monday, 200 to 300 college students from Rutgers University, Montclair University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and the United States Naval Academy joined organizer Tim Donnelly and other […]

College students and local volunteers will work to replenish the dunes on the North End beach at the end of the month. The dunes were decimated by Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29, 2012. The volunteers need to work fast — the unofficial deadline for planting new dune grass is April 1 each year, according to […]

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, relief efforts have cropped up around the region and the country. And on Jan. 2, Asbury Park will host its own musical relief event — On the Beach: A Sandy Relief Concert. The event will be held on Jan. 2, 2013, at the Paramount Theatre. Tickets go on sale […]