Word on the Shore

06/08/2023

Miller’s Ale House in Ocean Township Opened Saturday June 3rd.

The bar and restaurant, which opened Saturday, is It’s the first business to open at the new retail complex on the corner of Deal Road and Route 35.

Complete with 47 Tvs, it is expected to become the place to hang out in Ocean for sports, especially for football season.

Millers is a chain of 104 locations with this being the 4th one in NJ.

Check the site for menu, hours and more.

Crowd-pleasing curbside pickup, safe dine-in, fresh food and cold beers! See the menu, get hours and directions to Miller's Ale House - Ocean Township: Now Open!! .

05/19/2023

ASBURY PARK CASINO:

If you heard that the Casino building was going to be torn down soon, you heard wrong. Owners of the structure and Asbury Park redeveloper Madison Marquette, would need approval from NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection and the City to do so. That’s not happening- anytime soon anyway.

However, bulldozers arrived on Thursday to create a beach path around the Casino, in hopes of allowing pedestrians to bypass the dilapidated and currently closed structure to get between the city and Ocean Grove.

Currently, the only way to get back and forth is the Wesley Lake footbridge between Asbury and Ocean Grove, which close each night at 12am or going to Bond St.

05/19/2023

ASBURY PARK THE CENTER ALA CARTE IS TONITE!

To donate click the link:

https://thecenterinasburypark.harnessgiving.org/donate/?campaign_id=0&selected-method=monthly&amount=50

05/19/2023

EATONTOWN: WHOLE( hyphen gone now) FOODS COMING TO MONMOUTH MALL:

Whole Foods has reportedly signed a lease with Kushner Co. to take over the Barnes And Noble Book Store spot. Plans call for relocating the book store to another section of the mall and building out the current structure to accommodate Whole Foods.

This is another part of the redevelopment plan for the Mall which was originally built in 1958 on farmland as Monmouth Shopping Center. It was renovated and enclosed in 1975.

Also as part of the plan, JCPenney, which is closed, will be torn down as the parking garage on the southern end of the Mall was. A 4-story, RWJBarnabas Health Family Care & Wellness was recently built along side the torn down garage.

Plans also call for around 1000 residential apartments.

The mall plans are 8 years in the making and have come up against numerous complaints and rejections due to the extent of the size of the expansion. Some plans have been scrapped and new ones introduced over that time, however Kushner Co. is still moving forward to reinvent the whole property.

Amazon, which owns Whole Foods, was reportedly opening an Amazon Fresh where the old Toys R Us was on Rte 35 and Wyckoff Rd. Eatontown, however they are on hold for opening more of those stores and are actually closing some.

05/18/2023

FOR TICKETS CLICK THE LINK:

https://www.google.com/search?q=asbury+park+vegan+food+festival&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari&dlnr=1&sei=b2RmZKibBIas5NoPpvSlyAY =1&fpstate=tldetail&htidocid=L2F1dGhvcml0eS9ob3Jpem9uL2NsdXN0ZXJlZF9ldmVudC8yMDIzLTA1LTIwfF80NDI4OTM4MzMxMzE5MjQ1NjIy&htiq=asbury%20park%20vegan%20food%20festival&htivrt=events

05/13/2023

ASBURY PARK: NORTH TO SHORE FESTIVAL COMING JUNE 14-18:

For more info and the lineup click the link.

https://northtoshore.com/asbury-park/

05/13/2023

LONG BRANCH: MASON’S FAMOUS LOBSTER ROLLS AND SUNGLASS CITY COMING TO PIER VILLAGE:

They join new tenants, Salt Life, Little Words Project and Sundae Donuts which opened in the spring and Baldy Art Gallery which reopened with a new photograph art collection.

Coming toward the latter part of the year: Strand Salon, Remedy Realm and Gavone’s Italian.

05/12/2023

POP- UP PARTIES IN LONG BRANCH: A letter from Long Branch Mayor, John Pallone :

05/12/2023

MONMOUTH PARK RACETRACK OPENING DAY SATURDAY MAY 13:

1 DAY AWAY!!!

05/12/2023

LONG BRANCH CITY WIDE YARD-SALE NEXT WEEKEND MAY 20 AND 21!

05/12/2023

COVID-19 HEALTH EMERGENCY OFFICIALLY ENDED MAY 11.

Here’s a link to the CDC COVID-19 website for vaccine and insurance information you may need. Almost 300,000 NJ residents could lose their Medicaid coverage due to the emergency ending.

Check out the NJ Human Services and CDC sites to see how to deal with the changes.

https://nj.gov/humanservices/dmahs/staycoverednj/unwinding/

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/end-of-phe.html #:~:text=The%20federal%20COVID%2D19%20PHE,share%20certain%20data%20will%20change.

05/11/2023

SEPHORA COMING TO KOHLS MIDDLEBROOK PLAZA, OCEAN TOWNSHIP:

A 2500 square foot Sephora cosmetics store is coming to Ocean.
The store will be located in the Kohl’s on the left side of the main entrance with signage on the outside of the building.

Sephora will not have a separate entrance as the picture below does.

Setup has begun with store fixtures just about complete and ready for product. Word has it the new addition could be ready by June.

Sephora, which is known for exclusive and high- end cosmetics, has been expanding into various Kohl’s department stores across the country.

Signs went up in the parking lot for help wanted.

Sephora joins Floor&Decor which is taking over the old Foodtown.