Retro Joyous Fall for the Leaf Pile

Sometimes a kid just has to take the plunge and fall for it!

Plunging into a big pile of leaves was always a simple fall pleasure for kids. Untethered to phones and TVs, Fair Haven kids of the 1960s resorted to the great outdoors in a small town. Sometimes they took it to the streets with marathon games of dodgeball, one taking the traffic alert commander position with a “CAR!!” shout now and then and a clear-out of the ball court. Nevermore. There might be a helicopter parent police alert if kids did that nowadays. Ahem.

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Friday Night DWI Checkpoint Set

Despite popular belief that DWI checkpoints are for summer, authorities assure that they are not seasonal and still being conducted on a regular basis. In fact, the Monmouth County DWI Task Force has announced one checkpoint for Friday through early Saturday morning.

These DWI checkpoint details are publicized in accordance with the law.

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Prosecutor: Former Tennis Instructor Convicted of Repeated Sexual Crimes Against 12-Year-Old Student

A former area youth tennis instructor has been convicted of committing numerous sexual crimes against a 12-year-old student over the course of more than a year, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Wednesday.

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Retro Cool CAT Stokes Campers

Some sixth grade Fair Haven boys at Stokes
Photo/David Struve

Well, the iconic Stokes trip happened last week; and, by all accounts it was a trip soaked with fun … and rain.

The tradition has been altered over the years. Most recently, the trip’s time of year changed. It now happens in the fall when it used to happen in late spring. It also now takes seventh-, not sixth-graders, tripping in the woods for a week of hands-on outdoor education. And there are no RFH senior counselors called CATs along for the trips of more recent, well, decades. 

Nonetheless, the longtime tradition is and always has been rife with tales of the trip.

This featured snapshot back into the woods in 1978 at Stokes focuses on a few RFH counselor guys (and a sixth grader) who seem to have happened upon some sort of sight or adventure. Lost boys? Perhaps. 

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In Memoriam: 84-Year-Little Silver Resident, Fireman, Burdge’s Garage Owner, Ed Burdge, 90

Eighty-four year Little Silver resident Red Bank High School graduate, U.S. Army vet, fireman and owner of Burdge’s Garage, Albert Edwin “Ed” Burdge Jr., passed away on Sept. 27. He was 90.

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