In Memoriam: Fair Haven- and Rumson-Raised RFH ’78 Grad, Pattie Leutz Lyons, 66

Patricia A. "Pattie" Lyons

Fair Haven and Rumson-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Class of 1978 graduate, avid volunteer, rugby enthusiast, wife, mom and “friend to all,” Pattie Leutz Lyons, “passed from this life peacefully on June 14 at home and surrounded by the family she loved with all her being.” She was 66.

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Environmental FYI: Monmouth U, Surfrider Foundation Partner to Expand Ocean Water Quality Monitoring

Monmouth University will serve as the newest partner in the Surfrider Foundation’s Blue Water Task Force (BWTF), a nationwide network dedicated to monitoring water quality at public beaches.

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Retro Cool River Rat Daze

A 1976 River Rats crew Photo/courtesy Marc Edelman, Facebook
A 1976 River Rats crew
Photo/courtesy Marc Edelman, Facebook

All’s cool with these little rats in the pool … or, more like down by the river! A reprise from 2018 in ode to the tradition of summer recreating on the river in the Rumson-Fair Haven area. It’s all about River Rats, one summer rite of passage in the area … 

Unofficial summertime is here, with the official season’s start soon to set sail. And summers in the Rumson-Fair Haven area are rife with river-oriented activities that have become tradition.

River Rats’ sailing “camp” is no exception. OK, nobody was camping. It was more like a little club. Still is.

It’s been a sort of rite-of-living-on-the-Navesink passage for decades — since 1955. Kids learn how to boat and do a lot of summer fun bonding in the process.

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