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Today's riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? 🤔 (Answer below!)
• Man Charged With Writing Swastikas In Asbury Park (patch.com) — Residents in Asbury Park are reacting after a Point Pleasant man was charged with spray painting swastikas and lightning bolts at the Mercy Center and two other locations in town. Police say the vandalism, discovered during the week of Aug. 3, is being investigated as bias incidents, with multiple criminal mischief and bias intimidation charges filed.
• Asbury Park Convention Hall rehabilitation gets huge boost from NJ (app.com) — Asbury Park's long-stalled Convention Hall rehabilitation just received a massive boost, with $75 million in state tax credits aimed at finally jumpstarting construction on the shuttered landmark. Local officials, preservationists, and critics all weigh in on whether Madison Marquette can be trusted to restore this iconic boardwalk venue and what the financing means for the city's cultural and economic future.
• Born and raised in Asbury, this author is dedicated to the Westside (app.com) — An Asbury Park–born author is preserving the stories of the city's historic Westside, from porch gatherings and boardwalk trips to the 1970 unrest that scarred the neighborhood. Kelly Walker Edwards' self-published books, including "Now Is the Acceptable Time" and "Narrative Nips," capture generations of local Black history and community life that might otherwise fade from memory.
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