Longtime Rumsonite Patricia Harvey Buchsbaum, affectionately known as Pat, passed away in the early hours of Jan. 30 after a courageous battle with Parkinson’s disease. She was 93.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite, Garden Club Member Pat Harvey Buchsbaum, 93Retro RFH Kids’ Snow Time
A reprise, because, in this weather, there’s no business like snow business …
Snow days due to the recent pandemic time snow-in bring back memories of winters way past. RFHers of yesteryear always found some simple fun pretty fast when the school bell didn’t ring and the fire horn signaled no school.
Continue reading Retro RFH Kids’ Snow TimeIn Memoriam: Fair Havenite Lynn Brager Phelan
Longtime Fair Havenite Lynn Brager Phelan passed away after a short illness on Jan. 30.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Havenite Lynn Brager PhelanIn Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite, Joe Carroll
Forever Fair Havenite Joseph Edmund Carroll passed away on Jan. 23.
Born in Long Branch, Joe was a lifelong resident of Red Bank and Fair Haven. A star athlete in high school, Joe helped Croydon Hall Academy win the state basketball championship, his obituary said.
After graduating, Joe enlisted in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne. After three years of active duty and several years in the reserves, he was honorably discharged and set his sights on Wall Street.
Over his 30-year career, he worked his way from an entry-level page to a member of the New York Stock Exchange, working for the First of Michigan Corporation.
After retiring, he started a second career in an area he loved — the outdoors. Joe was an avid fisherman, duck hunter, and gardener. He worked for the Monmouth County Parks System into his 80s.
Joe is survived by: his wife Mary Patrica (Eddy); son, Patrick Carroll and wife Eileen; daughters, Sharon Everett and husband Michael, Maura Creekmore and husband Hill, and Megan Haran and husband Richard; and 12 grandchildren.
Joe is predeceased by his parents. Joseph and Florence Carroll (Hanisch).
— Edited obituary submitted by loved ones via Thompson Memorial Home
Retro Fair Haven Snow Storming
Call it a snow storming at the shove-wielding hands of a Fair Havenite and vet in the early 1960s.
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Snow StormingAlexandra Fratto: RFH Star Shines with Thespian Honor
Dubbed a Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) stage, classroom and community star, Alexandra Fratto is shining a little brighter these days.
Continue reading Alexandra Fratto: RFH Star Shines with Thespian HonorRemembrance: Fair Havenite, RFH Grad, Musician, Shannon Gilvary; Fundraising for the RFH Band in His Memory
The Rumson-Fair Haven community and beyond is in mourning over the death to COVID-19 of Terence “Shannon” Gilvary, a musician and former longtime Fair Havenite and Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School Class of 1986 graduate. He was 52.
Continue reading Remembrance: Fair Havenite, RFH Grad, Musician, Shannon Gilvary; Fundraising for the RFH Band in His MemoryScene Around: Still Funnin’ with a Forever Fair Haven Trio & a Mom
Still hangin’ after all these years …
There’s nothing like the warmth of lifelong friendship on a dank, wintry day.
Continue reading Scene Around: Still Funnin’ with a Forever Fair Haven Trio & a MomIn Memoriam: Monmouth Beach Resident, Sea View Jeep & Sea Breeze Ford Owner, Steven Schmelz, 63
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
Photos/Paul Kellogg & Elaine Van Develde
“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.
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