Asbury Park News

During the public participation segment of the Asbury Park City Council meeting on July 1, the senior representative to the recreation commission, who was appointed by the council, made a disparaging remark against the Asbury Tower, a year-round residential community of 300 to 400 seniors.

Police said they caught teenagers who were responsible for a series of vehicle burglaries in the Wanamassa section of town.

Asbury Park and Ocean Township are among 10 communities to receive $10,000 grants for sustainable projects in their towns.

Police have charged two young women and a teenage boy with robbing a Chinese food deliveryman.

With bumper stickers and lip service, most Americans say they support the troops.

The "Jersey Shore sound" - it's a term that has been thrown around by musicians, fans, authors, politicians and critics for decades.

Alan and Sondra Marion of Bordentown know their boardwalks. "We went to Ocean City a month ago, went to Wildwood a week ago, went to Seaside last year," said Marion, 48, on a rainy Saturday afternoon in June, as he and his wife, 41, and their children, Lindsay, 15, and Brian, 10, bought fries and soda at the beachfront.

Those who knew her said she had a heart of gold. At fundraising events for the foundation named in her memory, the Brady family motto is displayed in print on T-Shirts: "Laughing. Loving.

As New Jersey laments the passing of a sopped and sunless June, we set our hopes high for the coming of Independence Day weekend, when the fire in the sky can't compare to what sears on the stage.

'Greetings from Asbury Park,' an award-winning documentary feature film that explores the issue of eminent domain abuse, is airing on PBS stations throughout the month of July beginning Saturday, including WHYY, NJN2 and WLIW.

One of the most anticipated summer rock festivals is coming back home to the Shore on July 19.

Ed Johnson took over as mayor of the city Wednesday, elected by his City Council colleagues after all five members were sworn in to new four-year terms.

Contemporary jazz pianist Alex Bugnon, organist Radam Schwartz and woodwindist Anthony Nelson will headline the 21st Annual Asbury Park Jazz Festival from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 27 in Sunset Park at Fifth Avenue and Main Street.

Three teenagers admitted in court Tuesday that they pulled off a 2008 Neptune gas station robbery using a sawed-off shotgun.

Between his annual Independence Day weekend appearances at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park and his crowd-pleasing New Year's Eve shows at Red Bank's Count Basie Theatre, Monmouth County's own Southside Johnny Lyon has become something of a Shore institution over the years.

Perhaps not unexpectedly, Deputy Mayor Jim Bruno could not get his usual donors to pay for Saturday's July Fourth parade Saturday, an event he brought back to the city several years ago.

Asbury Park's annual Jazz Festival, which will take place Saturday, reminds me of one of the many gifts I have received as a newcomer to this community.

ASBURY PARK: The New Jersey Race Club will hold the first of its 2009 NJRC Triple Crown Ocean Mile Series on Saturday in Asbury Park.

John M. Giase, a longtime Asbury Park Press editor and reporter, died Thursday after an apparent accident at his home.

The city, Clean Ocean Action and Langosta Lounge will hold a free beach rally, paddle-out and showing of Leonardo DiCaprio's documentary "The 11th Hour" Wednesday beginning at 4:30 p.m. on the boardwalk.