Monmouth Beach resident and Sea View Jeep and Sea Breeze Ford owner, Steven James Schmelz, passed away on Jan. 24 after a two-year fight against terminal cancer. He was 63.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Monmouth Beach Resident, Sea View Jeep & Sea Breeze Ford Owner, Steven Schmelz, 63Retro Frontlining Fair Haven Doc & Mayor
There’s something about memories of an iconic doctor, mayor, house calls, volunteerism and community that soothe what ails the stressed and scared in surging pandemic and vaccination times.
Continue reading Retro Frontlining Fair Haven Doc & MayorScene Around: Foxy Playmate
Photo/Joanne Formisano
It’s not every day that you find a fox literally having a ball in you back yard, or enjoying a little swing on the seesaw, for that matter. Sometimes it’s on a Friday — last Friday, in fact, in this case. TGIF?
Continue reading Scene Around: Foxy PlaymateFair Haven Post Office Accident: The Fact Update
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“Driver error” is what Fair Haven Police Chief Joe McGovern attributed to Tuesday’s post office accident that left a car in the lobby of the building at the River Road plaza. A similar such accident has happened before and next door.
While the chief said the accident that occurred at 6:19 p.m. that evening is still under investigation, he said that no summonses have been issued at this time.
The facts, so far, he said, are that an 89-year-old local woman “was pulling into the parking spot in front on the post office to mail a letter and accidentally hit the (car’s) accelerator instead of (the) brake.”
The car ended up completely inside the office, breaking out the entire front window and door, the chief said. As a result, there was no structural damage done to the building and “no one was injured, including the driver,” he added.
Fair Haven Police, Fire Company and First Aid responded to the scene.
The vehicle versus building accident has happened in the area and with frequency at one point a few years ago. The last time something similar occurred in the borough itself was about 15 or 20 years ago, the chief said he recalled, when a vehicle struck the building next door.
Retro RFH Polar Bears’ Dive & Chill
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Rumson Police Chief Scott Paterson is diving into his annual Special Olympics New Jersey cause again — this time in distanced pandemic times.
Continue reading Retro RFH Polar Bears’ Dive & ChillLiving The Dream: Susan Sorensen’s Legacy of Heart for Home
“You gotta have heart … all you really need is heart!” ~ You Gotta Have Heart, Damn Yankees, lyrics by Jerry Ross
The signature championing song was belted out loud, clear and with a lot heart in the musical Damn Yankees. Heart is what former nine-year Fair Haven Councilwoman Susan Sorensen says you need at the core of not only your own legacy, but that of your home town. It’s a legacy that she’s forever striving to fulfill, on and off the dais.
Service to community is at the heart of family legacy for Sorensen. And, she said recently, she’s not anywhere near done fulfilling hers and continuing in her family’s without skipping a beat.
Continue reading Living The Dream: Susan Sorensen’s Legacy of Heart for HomeScene Around: A P.O. Drive-In
Call it an accidental Fair Haven drive-in.
Continue reading Scene Around: A P.O. Drive-InProsecutor: Beware of COVID-19 Vaccine Scams
Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni is urging residents to beware of becoming victims of COVID-19 vaccine-related scams, especially those targeting senior citizens.
Continue reading Prosecutor: Beware of COVID-19 Vaccine ScamsHonoring MLK Day: Fair Haven’s Fisk Chapel Community
A reprise in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day of a look back into the hub of the cherished Fair Haven African-American community at Fisk Chapel, which is still standing today …
The Fair Haven Fisk Chapel AME Church is home to many community founders and their families. Its history juts deep into the entrenched roots of Fair Haven life
The modest little place and its humble, welcoming people have a very rich history all their own. A lot of the names and faces are traceable back to the early days of the church, back in the mid-1800s.
Continue reading Honoring MLK Day: Fair Haven’s Fisk Chapel CommunityIn Memoriam: 50-Year Fair Havenite, U.S. Navy Vet, Volunteer, Ted Stieve, 92
Longtime former Fair Havenite Theodore J. Stieve, most recently of Tinton Falls, passed away on Jan. 14. He was 92.
Continue reading In Memoriam: 50-Year Fair Havenite, U.S. Navy Vet, Volunteer, Ted Stieve, 92In Memoriam: Longtime FH Knollwood School Custodian, Michael Covert, 47
Longtime Fair Haven Knollwood School custodian Michael Covert, a Red Bank resident, passed away on Dec. 28, 2020. He was 47.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime FH Knollwood School Custodian, Michael Covert, 47Prosecutor: Former County Probation Officer Gets 10 Years for Sexual Assault of Client
A former Monmouth County probation officer was sentenced to 10 years in a New Jersey state prison this afternoon for sexually assaulting a woman he supervised on Drug Court probation and making false representations to the court, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced on Thursday.
Continue reading Prosecutor: Former County Probation Officer Gets 10 Years for Sexual Assault of Client
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