Asbury Park Sun (asburyparksun.com)

03/17/2025

Tremendous disinformation may have doomed this Asbury Park landmark. Only legitimate issue was parking concerns which led to a 3-2 vote on AP Council against a preservation plan the developer himself proposed. (Quinn and Chapman voted for it.) The project would have paid MORE in revenue than the six McMansions the developer is allowed by zoning to build, and now will build as his only alternative. The preservation plan was for culture uses inside the church and 18 units of affordable housing in a new apartment building next to the church.

ASBURY PARK - Whenever there is a redevelopment plan on the table, emotions run high in the rapidly-changing City by the Sea. The perception described by many residents at the March 12 council...

11/06/2024

A ticket of incumbent Board of Education member Jessie Ricks, former Board of Education member Dominic Latoracca and newcomer Stephanie Ackerman won the three seats up for grabs in the Asbury Park Board of Education election. The three beat a ticket of incumbent Shadow Maghsood, Danielle Brascomb an...

11/06/2024

Three incumbent council members swept to victory in the Asbury Park municipal elections by a 70-30 percent margin. Deputy Mayor Amy Quinn and her running mates, Councilmembers Eileen Chapman and Yvonne Clayton, prevailed over former Deputy Mayor John Loffredo, former Board of Education member Garret...

08/09/2024

"This one is personal. Had this Publisher not dreamed of saving the Terner tract as a twenty five year old councilman back in 1987, it surely would have been developed. I was the prime advocate for this acquisition from the beginning. Others took it from there. Against all odds, the site was preserved. It would never occur to me that a subsequent council would ever consider using this land for something like a new municipal complex..."

07/17/2024

Loffredo, Giberson and Potter step forward to challenge Asbury Park City Council incumbents in November

A slate led by former four-term Councilman and Deputy Mayor John Loffredo will run for the three City Council seats up for election this November.  Loffredo (above left), a realtor who served on the council from 2001 until 2014, will be joined on the ticket by Garrett Giberson (right) and Jill Pott...

06/20/2024

This week's triCity cover reminds me how much arts and culture we have here in eastern Monmouth....