The Sounds of Summer are back and Asbury Park Music Foundation has a lineup of free music events that is sure to fit anyone’s bill. Known for their youth music education programs, the roster features a mix of local, regional and national touring artists aimed at bringing the city’s entire community together in various locations, […]

A Night of Jazz and Blues is being planned in tribute to Asbury Park music man Gladstone Trott. The Asbury Park Music Foundation March 24 event is a fundraiser to help raise money for medical bills associated with Trott’s ongoing fight against cancer. Trott has been hospitalized since December. Raised in Asbury Park, Trott began […]

Asbury Park will not receive Levitt Grant funding in support of its Springwood Avenue Park Summer Concert series, Tom Gilmour, President of the Asbury Park Music Foundation [APMF] announced in news release Monday. The well attended series launched this summer with support from the Levitt Foundation grant but was voted out of the next round […]

The Asbury Park Music Foundation is in the running to bring back the 10-week summer live music series held in Springwood Avenue Park, organizers announced Tuesday. Sponsored by the national Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation, free music concerts were held on the west side drawing attendance from residents across the 1.4 square mile community and […]

Former Asbury Park Director of Economic Development Thomas Gilmour has been named Trenton Downtown Association’s [TDA] new Executive Director. The TDA is a nonprofit created by city ordinance to manage Trenton’s Downtown Business Improvement District. The TDA promotes commerce, economic renewal and tourism in the district. “After an extensive search process, the Board is pleased […]

The Asbury Park City Council approved a resolution to pay former Department of Commerce Director Tom Gilmour close to $20,000 for unused vacation and comp-time Wednesday. Gilmour, a 14-year employee, was informed via a termination letter dated September 24 that his job would end October 30. A standing room-only audience of local business owners packed […]

The Asbury Park City Council will introduce an ordinance that eliminates the Department of Commerce during its Wednesday night meeting. The Department was headed by Tom Gilmour, a 14-year employee whose tenure with the city is slated to end Friday. But Gilmour’s attorney Luanne Peterpaul of Gluck Walwrath, Red Bank, maintains the municipality did not follow […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, The elected officials of Asbury Park have done it again! Just when the news about Asbury had been overwhelmingly  positive – the renovation of the former Salvation Army building;  the possibility of a new hotel/condo on the old C8 site; the restoration of the Zombie Walk by Johnny Mac; a wonderful, […]

Asbury Park officials say the decision to eliminate the Director of Commerce position, currently held by 14-year veteran Tom Gilmour was solely based on a goal to streamline jobs and duties within city hall. “Nobody likes laying anyone off but the [City] Council is going in a different direction,” Mayor John Moor said. “We are […]

Under new ownership with added features, the Asbury Park Zombie Walk will be held from 12 to 8 p.m. one week from Saturday. The Guinness Book of World Record event was called off by organizer Jason Meehan last month, citing exponential growth, planning needs, and organizing costs for the event’s demise. But last week restauranteur […]