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 & Mayor
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 Playmate
“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 Home
Call it an accidental Fair Haven drive-in.
Continue reading Scene Around: A P.O. Drive-InLongtime 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, 92Longtime 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, 47There’s a great deal of power in place. The places in people’s lives anchor them, comfort them, change them, inspire them. Each place to which we travel, even within our own hometown iconic spots, does one or all of these things. In one way or another, place defines us. That’s the power in place. It brings us to a home base in our hearts.
Continue reading Changing Landscape: Power of Place 2020Former Fair Haven business owner Catherine “Kay” Cooney O’Brien, of Shrewsbury, passed away on Dec. 21 of COVID-19 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. She was 88.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Former Fair Haven Business owner Kay O’Brien, 88Fair Havenite Elinor Griffen Mink died peacefully at her home in Fair Haven, as was always her wish, on Jan. 5. She was 96.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Havenite Elinor Griffen Mink, 96Rumson Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) alumnus star football and track athlete Charlie Volker has laced up a different pair of athlete’s spikes, taken to a new frontier and locked in on a new athletic adventure as a member of the U.S. Olympic Bobsled Team.
Continue reading Breaking for RFH Alum Charlie Volker’s Olympic Bobsled Team VictoryFair Havenite Frances “Fran” Marion Ruane passed away peacefully on Saturday, Jan. 2.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Havenite Fran Ruane
Ohhhhh, the pain … of pandemic distancing? Well, when you look back at some scary Santa experiences, you start to think, uh, not so much. The pandemic may have spared some kids a lifetime of PTSD flashbacks of Beelzebub cloaked in ol’ Saint Nick garb and merriment.
Continue reading Focus: Classic Santa Slaying Moments
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