Retro ‘Night Out’ Mayoral Dunkin’

Fair Haven Mayor Ben Lucarelli gets a dunking at Night Out 2012 Photo/Elaine Van Develde
Fair Haven Mayor Ben Lucarelli gets a dunking at Night Out 2012
Photo/Elaine Van Develde

Reprise … in honor of the best of National Night Out times …

Every year there’s a Fair Haven National Night Out. Tonight’s that night.

It’s a night, celebrated on the national level, designed to familiarize residents, from kids to seniors, with police and other emergency responders in town. That Night Out is always the first Tuesday in August. So, Tuesday it is in Fair Haven. There are plenty of Night Out memories to recall, but this featured one is a classic from 13 years ago.

There are games, demonstrations, looks at emergency equipment, food, smiles and handshakes — and a dunk tank.

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Scene Around: River Rats Reunited; Sailing on in Mayor’s Cup

River Rats congratulate youth sailors, Winston Fils, who is holding his 3rd place trophy, and Isabella Schiavetti. Standing in the back row, left to right, are: Frank Munn, Joe Malik, Jeff Siegal, and River Rats Skipper Jill Lynch.
— Photo/River Rats

A little bit of sun shone through overcast skies when a couple of Fair Haven River Rats were reunited as youth sailors sailed through fair winds and choppy waters recently to participate in the longtime borough maritime tradition, the Mayor’s Cup. 

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In Memoriam: Fair Haven-Raised RFH ’85 Grad, Ellen Golembeski Davis, 59

Fair Haven-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH)_ graduate, Ellen Golembeski Davis, more recently of the Belford section of Middletown, passed away peacefully on June 23, surrounded by her family. She was 59.

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Retro Sea Bright Beach Clubbing

Sometimes ya just have to go clubbing … in Sea Bright … before the age of 10.

After all, what good Rumson kid didn’t? Not many, if any. And back in the summer of ’69, little Claire Hurd was one who went clubbing … to Sea Bright Beach Club, of course, with the best of them. It was just the way Rumsonites rolled in the summer. Still do.

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