Inspired by the Asbury Park Downtown Merchants Guild – a grassroots effort to spotlight the eclectic and unique nature of the city’s shops and entertainment offerings in the ever evolving downtown, The Merchants Park Revitalization was realized Monday. In September, the Merchant’s Guild set out to create an iconic gateway to the historic downtown corridor. […]

Fall is here and for many of thus this means putting our gardens to bed for the winter. The Environmental Shade Tree Commission [ESTC] is in the same boat. Over the next few weekends, the ESTC will be clearing, cleaning, planting, and putting gardens to bed for the winter. Volunteers are needed from 9 to […]

As the downtown corridor’s revitalization continues to offer residents and visitors new shops and dining experiences, local organizers are working to create a fitting homage a patch of land at the corner of Main Street and Cookman Avenue. Fittingly named Merchant’s Park, the odd shaped lot, left neglected for years, will be transformed into a […]

The Asbury Park High School football team took to weeding Thursday morning at Interfaith Neighbors’ Kula Urban Farm and around the Springwood Avenue Center that houses Kula Café and the Senior Center. The community service endeavor was a collaboration between Interfaith Neighbors and the school district’s College and Career Readiness program, with guidance from the […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun, To me, the local Asbury Park election on November 4, 2014 is more immediately important than a national election. My and your vote will determine how issues that affect us every day will be dealt with. EDUCATION – I want our schools to be places where our youngsters learn there […]

Seventy-five Knockout Rose bushes now line the northwest corner of Bangs and Main avenues, where overgrown shrubs once hid the century-old Asbury Park Post Office building from passers-by. About 20 members of the Asbury Park Environment and Shade Tree Commission [ESTC] planted the bushes Saturday in an effort that took less than an hour to […]

Among the first to do so in New Jersey, three same sex couples were married just after midnight Monday morning on the steps of the Paramount Theater on the Asbury Park boardwalk. The couples were Asbury Councilwoman Amy Quinn and Heather Jensen and Steven Brunner and Daniel Baum, as well as Aberdeen couple Karen Nicholson-McFadden […]

By the end of September, Asbury Park will see the first new trees planted through American Forests’ efforts to study and improve the overall tree canopy and green structure in the city. American Forests, the oldest national nonprofit conservation organization in the country, is leading the effort as part of their “Community ReLeaf” program to […]

A city resident lodged a complaint regarding the crossing guards who help children cross the city’s busier streets on the way to and from school each day. Tom Pivinski said at the May 15 council meeting that the crossing guards’ techniques may be “creating a real danger for our kids.” Pivinski was driving down Main […]