Bridge work prompts rail schedule changes this weekend

Buses will briefly replace trains between Asbury Park and Belmar on NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line this weekend. Because of maintenance on the Shark River drawbridge, trains will run on a special schedule between Long Branch and Bay Head beginning late on Fri., June 27 and continuing all day Saturday.

Court to hear homeless shelter appeal

THE COASTER - Superior Court Judge Lawrence Lawson will hear an appeal filed by the Jersey Shore Rescue Mission by Wed., July 8. The mission is appealing the city's denial of variances to allow a homeless shelter to remain open.

Demolition continues in oceanfront zone

THE COASTER - Mexican restuarants are commonplace in Asbury Park now, but back in the '70s, there was only one. The building which housed Taxco Village at Fourth and Kingsley has been torn down as part of the city's oceanfront redevelopment.

Brighter future planned for Wesley Lake

THE COASTER - Officials from Asbury Park and Neptune came together recently to remember how Wesley Lake looked back in the day and to make plans for a brighter future for this body of water between the city and Ocean Grove.

Undersea gas plant proposed 15 miles off Asbury Park

A joint venture between a Canadian energy company and a privately held New York firm wants to build a $550 million liquefied natural gas terminal in the ocean about 15 miles east of Asbury Park, the third off-shore LNG facility to be proposed for the Jersey coast.