What else can be said about it?
A sunny November day on the Fair Haven Dock cures all ills.
Fishing, relaxing, taking in the view. Call it that exhale of contentment. Home.
Take a look. Good night Fair Haven.
— Elaine Van Develde
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Police Report Criminal Mischief, Theft
The following recent criminal incidents were reported by Red Bank police:
• An incident of criminal mischief was reported to have occurred sometime between Oct. 23 and 24 at a W. Front Street business. the owner reported that someone tipped over a metal flower pot, damaging the flowers and the pot.
Patrolman Benjamin Springer took the report.
• A theft was reported to have occurred on Oct. 27 at a Maple Avenue parking lot. The victim reported that someone stole her purse, containing cash and a debit card, out of her parked car.
Patrolman George Travosino took the report.
• A theft was reported to have occurred on Oct. 27 at a Maple Avenue restaurant. An employee reported that someone stole her purse, containing cash and credit cards, from the service station.
Patrolman Michael Zadlock took the report.
• A theft was reported to have occurred on Oct. 28 at the Foodtown on Broad Street. The victim reported that she left her iPhone on the counter and upon her return, the phone was missing.
Patrolman Michael Zadlock took the report.
• An incident of criminal mischief was reported to have occurred on Oct. 29 on Throckmorton Avenue. The victim reported that someone keyed the door of his parked vehicle.
Patrolman Michael Zadlock took the report.
• A theft was reported to have occurred on Oct. 30 at a Broad Street apartment garage. The victim reported that someone stole four new tires mounted on wheels in the garage.
Patrolman David Smith took the report.
• An incident of criminal mischief was reported to have occurred on Oct. 31 on W. Front Street. The victim reported that someone kicked the side of his vehicle, leaving a dent.
Patrolman David Smith took the report.
• An incident of criminal mischief was reported to have occurred sometime between Nov. 1 and 2 on Catherine Street. The victim reported that someone slashed all four tires on a parked vehicle.
Patrolman Benjamin Springer took the report.
• A theft was reported to have occurred between Nov. 1 and 3 on Leighton Avenue. The victim reported that someone stole cash and a silver ring from a bedroom at a residence.
Patrolman Benjamin Springer took the report.
Retro RFH Murder He Wrote?
Photo/George Day
So, Halloween is over. But, some of the antics of RFH students of the past remain etched in our memories.
The Retro Pic of the (George) Day honors one of those kooky ghoulish guys.
We have no idea why this photo was taken or what he was up to here. And when we asked featured RFH alum Mike Grady those questions, he just shook his head.
“Goofing around,” was the basic response.
So, there you have it.
Here’s to goofing around at RFH in the late 1970s!
Nice grin for a guy playing dead, Grady! Breaking character is not allowed! Know who’s the one tending to this freak?
Thanks, once again, to George Day for this fabulous look back at RFH!
— Elaine Van Develde
Little Silver A&P Now Acme
Photo/Elaine Van Develde
They were putting the finishing touches on it Tuesday night. The Little Silver A&P is now an Acme.
The store, at 507 Prospect Avenue is open. According to the recording on the store’s telephone system, it is open the same hours as the A&P was: 7 a.m. to midnight Monday through Saturday; and until 10 p.m. on Sunday.
The Acme in Fair Haven has long been considered a special kind of meeting place for area residents.
When this editor’s mom went to “pick up a few things,” that usually meant her children would see her hours later. And, there were many times the conversation in the produce aisle took over so much that one of us had to go back to pick up what she forgot.
Well, we’ll see. With the extra couple of hours open, you never know who may meander over to Little Silver.
See ya at the Acme!
— Elaine Van Develde
Detour: Ridge Road Paving Ahead
If you’re planning on traveling down Ridge or Harding Road after 6 p.m. in the next week or so, you’ll need to plan an alternate route.
Starting tonight, from 6 p.m. through 6 a.m. for next six days or so, milling, paving and resurfacing work will be underway on the county roadway “between Bingham Ave and west of Prospect Avenue (where it turns into Harding) in Little Silver,” Rumson police said in a release.
So, both Rumson and Fair Haven police are alerting area residents.
Alternate routes will be posted and Monmouth County Public Works employees and police “will be on site to help residents navigate the detours that will be in place.
Learning Curve: Rumson School District’s Parent Academy
The Rumson School District recently sponsored a Parent Academy session outlining social and emotional learning initiatives undertaken in Forrestdale and Deane-Porter schools.
Continue reading Learning Curve: Rumson School District’s Parent Academy
Police: Area Man Arrested on Evidence Tampering Charge, Contempt
The following recent contempt of court arrests were made and reported by Middletown police:
Continue reading Police: Area Man Arrested on Evidence Tampering Charge, Contempt
The BOE Votes: Mancuso Loses FH Bid for Third Term
By Elaine Van Develde
Fair Haven Board of Education President Mark Mancuso has lost his bid for re-election, leaving contenders Bennett Coleman, Michelle Buckley and Charlie Jakub filling the three seats up for grabs on the nine-member board.
Mancuso first came to the board by filling an unexpired term five years ago. He will be finishing the end of his second full term on the dais by the year’s end.
The highest vote-getter in the election, which brought out 3,299 voters, was Coleman, with 847. Buckley garnered 655 votes and Jakub 632, according to the unofficial tallies of the Monmouth County Clerk’s Office.
Five vied for the three seats. In addition to Mancuso, Marisa Coar did not win her bid for election. She won 615 votes, or roughly 19 percent, while Mancuso had the least amount of votes cast on his ballot — 540, or about 16 percent.
There were 10 write-ins.
Rumson
The race for three board seats in the Rumson School District was uncontested.
Three ran for three seats.
With a total of 1,595 votes cast, John Connors got the highest number of votes, 533, or more than 33 percent. Charles ”Chuck” Jones III won 532, or just more than 33 percent. And Margaret Simons got 514 votes, or 32 percent, the vote tallies of the Clerk’s Office said.
There were 16 write-ins.
Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School
With three seats up for grabs, only two incumbent candidates ran uncontested to fill them.
Lourdes Lucas and Sarah Maris (both representing Fair Haven) won new terms with 874 and 869 votes, respectively.
Teresa Liccardi, M.D., Rumson representative, did not seeking re-election.
So, there will be an empty seat to be filled.
There were 55 write-ins for that seat.
Fair Haven Votes: GOP Incumbents Keep Seats
By Elaine Van Develde
Republican incumbents kept their seats on Fair Haven Borough Council by a comfortable margin, with 2,339 votes cast, or more than half the estimated 4,000 registered voters in the borough.
With newcomer Democrat Shervyn von Hoerl vying for one of the two three-year governing body terms up for grabs, a win for him would have put a long-unprecedented two Democrats on the dais.
He did not succeed. The challenger, von Hoerl ended up with 621 votes, or nearly 27 percent of the vote.
The high vote-getter in the race was Councilman Eric Jaeger, with 876, or more than 37 percent.
Jaeger’s running mate Robert Marchese won his third term to council with 834 votes, or roughly 36 percent.
There were eight write-ins.
Fair Haven’s form of government is a Borough Council form. In this form of municipal government, there are six council members with three-year terms and a mayor with a four-year term.
While the mayor presides over meetings, he does not vote, unless to break a tie.
The mayor does, however, have veto power.
Rumson Votes: Ekdal is Mayor Again, Uncontested Council
By Elaine Van Develde
Familiar challenger Michael Steinhorn tried again, but did not succeed in ousting longtime Rumson Mayor John Ekdahl.
With 864 votes cast in the mayoral race, Ekdahl ended up with 565 of them, or more than 65 percent.
Steinhorn, a Democrat who has long attempted to break the longtime Republican stronghold on the governing body, garnered 294 votes, or 34 percent.
There were five write-in candidate votes.
Ekdahl will begin his fourth four-year term as mayor in January.
Incumbent Republican Borough Councilmen Marc Rubin and John Conklin won uncontested three-year seats on the dais, garnering 623 and 629 votes, respectively. A total of 1,276 votes were cast for the council race.
There were 24 write-ins.
Rumson is run with a Borough Council, or Mayor and Council form of government.
As with Fair Haven, the governing body has six council members and a presiding mayor. The mayor runs the meetings, but does not vote unless there is a tie.
He has veto power.
Retro: Voting After Sandy
It was nine days after Hurricane Sandy hit.
It was the presidential election of the year 2012. Most in the Rumson-Fair Haven area were without electricity and heat. There was a curfew.
Rumson Police Investigate Halloween Burglaries & Attempted Break-ins
As they investigate Halloween night burglaries and attempted break-ins, Rumson police are putting residents on alert and offering cautionary advice.
Homes on Buttonwood and Conover lanes were burglarized; and signs of attempted forced entry to residences on Navesink and Bellevue avenues were reported, according to a release.
At the homes on Navesink and Bellevue, glass doors were reported broken with a rock, police said. No entry was obtained in either of those instances.
The perpetrators are still at large.
In the meantime, “we ask that residents utilize their alarms and keep the outside of their homes well lit,” the release said. “Notify the dispatch desk at 732-842-0500 or dial 911 in an emergency to report suspicious persons or vehicles 24 hours a day.”
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