By JOSEPH SAPIA When you think the dead are dead, then you see a zombie…. And reports of the death of the Zombie Walk in Asbury Park may have been greatly exaggerated. The New Jersey Zombie Walk began seven years ago in Asbury Park. Last month, founder and organizer Jason Meehan announced its demise […]
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Thousands Attend Oysterfest
By JOSEPH SAPIA The Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce is still calculating figures, but it appears 11,000 or 12,000 people visited its eighth annual Oyster Festival over the Sept. 11 to 13 weekend. This year, the festival, held near the Carousel building at the oceanfront, had weather ranging from clear on Friday to rainy […]
Continue readingThe One Last Long Weekend of Summer
By JOSEPH SAPIA Ellen Brahney likes hitting the Avon beach between the Pavilion and the Bradley Beach boundary in the morning. Brahney, who lives in the Shark River Hills section of Neptune, was doing just that the other day. After all, it is still the summer season at the Shore “because,” as she put […]
Continue readingZombie Walk Dead; Funeral Services Planned
By JOSEPH SAPIA The New Jersey Zombie Walk, an Asbury Park fixture which began seven years ago, is dead. Founder and organizer Jason Meehan announced the demise on the New Jersey Zombie Walk Facebook page Thurs., Aug. 20. “Its death was not sudden,” according to the post, “and every attempt was made to revive […]
Continue readingThe Phoenix Will Rise in Ocean Grove
By JOSEPH SAPIA After a fire destroyed the three-story commercial-residential buidling at 50 Main Ave. in Ocean Grove in February, The Phoenix is rising. Within the next few weeks construction should begin on a new three-story building — The Phoenix — on the site, according to Kurt Cavano, who owns the property with his […]
Continue readingMaking Ice Cream is a Family Affair in Bradley Beach
By JOSEPH SAPIA There is Mom and Dad Becker. Four boys. The rest is family and business history. The Beckers — JoAnn, 54, Pete, 55, and their four sons, Danny, 30, Dave, 26, Luke, 20, and Jake, 17 — recently opened their third Four Boys Ice Cream stand, at the corner of Ocean and […]
Continue readingHazy, Hot and Humid: Enough!
By JOSEPH SAPIA It was only 9:20 a.m., but the temperature was already up to 83 degrees on a sticky recent day. Paul Jimenez was shooting baskets on the court at the Holmes A. Adams Recreation Complex in Neptune City, but he did not plan on staying long in the heat. “I usually do […]
Continue readingMom and Dad are Both Cops in Asbury Park
By JOSEPH SAPIA Asbury Park Police Officers Melinda and Mike Casey have the same surname, badge numbers in sequential order — hers, No. 219; his, No. 220 — and have both been on the police department for 11 years. They have been married for even longer: 16 years. “We decided to take the (state) […]
Continue readingJohnny Mac and City at Odds
By JOSEPH SAPIA In the next month or so, the owner of Johnny Mac House of Spirits said he expects to file legal papers against Asbury Park for holding up his expansion plans. The city Planning Board recently would not give John McGillion, owner of Johnny Mac, approval for Phases 2 to 4 to […]
Continue readingLearning About Civil Rights
By JOSEPH SAPIA The third annual Urban Youth Civil Rights Education Initiative for Asbury Park middle school-age students kicks off Friday, Aug. 7. The group will watch a film on the 1955 beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement — specifically about the white-on-black murder of Emmett Till, 14, in Mississippi and Rosa Parks, a […]
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