From the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office …
Members of the MCPO Major Crimes Bureau and the Freehold Borough Police Department are actively investigating the shooting of an adult male that took place on East Main Street between South and Center streets this afternoon.
Continue reading Prosecutor: Afternoon Area Shooting Under InvestigationFormer longtime Fair Havenite and area builder, Clifford “Cliff” Malcolm Shaw Sr., passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, April 25. He was 88.
Longtime Rumsonite and former Rumson Beauty Salon hairdresser, Carmela “Camille” Mastria, passed away peacefully in her home on Saturday, April 25. She was 99.
Monmouth Beach-raised Eric Donald Pegosh Jr., of Atlantic Highlands, passed away on April 22. He was 44.
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” — Ecclesiastes 3:1
Former Little Silver resident, Brian Paul Daneman, passed away on April 20. He was 65.
Fair Havenite Ann Tickner Jankowski passed away peacefully at her home, surrounded by loved ones, on April 19.
The following March arrests were reported by Little Silver police. An arrest does not constitute a conviction.
I could still see him. I believe everyone could. He was standing right up front in the far corner of the packed room. He could see it all from there. And, boy, was he smiling. Head tilted back a bit, to take it all in as best he could, his iconic smile spoke a thousand “How lucky we were” words. The rapturous sigh that emanated from his grin filled the room with his legacy of home-grown love.
I could see him add a wink this time as he read the room. The room, in a still-the-same Columbus Club corner nook on the street where we kids biked down the hill to school, was packed with those kids from his Fair Haven childhood.
Continue reading Celebrating Frankie’s Fair Haven Legacy of Luck and Smiles“I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these states. Yet through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means; and that posterity will triumph in that day’s transaction, even although we should regret it.” ~ John Adams in a letter to his wife Abigail, July 3, 1776.
They planted themselves at Fair Haven Fields on Sunday for the sake of a symbolic dedication of the rooting of 250 years of strength and independence in one tree dubbed The Liberty Tree.
Longtime Fair Havenite and 32-year Fair Haven Fire Department social member, William F. “Bill” Mieth Jr., passed away peacefully with his family by his side on April 16. He was 83.
Rumson-raised longtime Locust resident and Sea Bright Beach Club, and Rumson Country Club member, Alexander “Sandy” Van Rensselaer Halsey passed away peacefully on March 5 in Bluffton, SC, surrounded by his children and devoted caregiver, Lisa. He was 95.
Sometimes, being benched is a good thing. It’s springtime and the livin’ is downright summery these days. So, being benched with a Navesink River view at the Fair Haven Dock is just what the winter-weary doctor ordered for perennial river-time seekers.
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