Former longtime Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) gym teacher and coach and vice principal, Caroll “Lynn” Broten, more recently of Tinton Falls, passed away peacefully at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank of complications due to COPD on Oct. 30. She was 83.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Rumson-Raised Former Longtime RFH Teacher, Coach, Lynn Broten, 83 Red Bank resident Carol Crimoli, 76, also of Fort Lauderdale, FL, passed away peacefully on Friday, Nov.7. She was 76.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Red Bank Resident, Carol Crimoli, 76 The following October arrests were reported by Rumson police. An arrest does not constitute a conviction.
Continue reading Rumson Police Report: Terroristic Threats, Disorderly, Obstruction A 40-year-old man has pleaded guilty to supplying a man with the drugs that killed him in 2023, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Friday.
Continue reading Prosecutor: Drug Supplier Pleads Guilty to Reckless Manslaughter of Man A Tuesday evening accident that resulted in the death of a female pedestrian is under investigation, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Thursday.
Continue reading Prosecutor: Pedestrian Killed in Tuesday Accident; Investigation Ensues Former Fair Havenite Charles Edward Lowden passed away peacefully on Oct. 31. He was 92.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Former Fair Havenite Charles Lowden, 92 The unofficial election results are in; and, after what turned out to be a very tight race for two Fair Haven Borough Council seats, it looks like party tickets split, seating one Democrat and one Republican on the governing body dais, unless yet-to-be-counted provisional, mail-in and cure letter ballots change that.
Continue reading Tight Fair Haven Council Race Shows Split-Ticket Victory 
Little Silver resident, Robert “Bob” Frank McIntyre, passed away peacefully at home on Thursday, Oct. 30. He was 78.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Little Silver Resident, Shrewsbury River Yacht Club Member, Bob McIntyre, 78 
A reprise of an RFH classic from 2016, just because it’s that time again …
Election Day is here.
And, as usual, political season has been in full swing in more ways than one — punches are being thrown in all directions.
It’s why they call it silly season. But, let’s take the focus off the national and local politics of today and step back in time to the 1970s and politics as it was with RFH students and teachers.
Continue reading Retro RFH Political ClubbingLongtime Rumsonite, Catherine Julia Altavilla, passed away peacefully, with her family by her side, on Tuesday, Oct. 28. She was 88.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite, Catherine Altavilla, 88 
Longtime popular Red Bank Regional (RBR), Rumson-Fair Haven Regional (RFH) and Holmdel high schools teacher, coach, husband, father and grandfather, John Quinn, passed away on Oct. 30. He was 69.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Popular RBR, RFH Teacher, Mater Dei Coach, John Quinn, 69 As people go to the polls to vote in Rumson and Fair Haven on Tuesday, or even if votes have already been cast, there are some facts about the boroughs’ governing bodies and their function and history that may have eluded many.
So, the notion in mind that an informed voter is a better voter, early voting or not, here are some local government facts that may enlighten and inspire:
Rumson and Fair Haven are both run under what is dubbed the Borough form of municipal government in New Jersey. There are several forms. While it may seem like a given that since Fair Haven and Rumson are both boroughs, the form of government follows suit with that name. It’s not.
Continue reading The 2025 Fair Haven and Rumson Local Government Election FYI 
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