Five, six, seven, eight … and curtain up! Every player plays. But, behind the glaring spotlight on every Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Players stage performer is a lot of rehearsal and skill honing.
Continue reading Scene Around: RFH Tower Players Playing & Winning 
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge construction work remains status quo, with a lot of road realignment work on the Rumson side continuing. All construction continues this week on the usual 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. schedule though Friday, weather permitting. And the weather forecast, so far, looks cooperative, calling for mostly sunny days.
Continue reading Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory 
Call it an esteemed happening in their hometown.
They’re three Middletown-raised celebrities in their own right — famed news anchor Brian Williams and brothers Stevie and Billy Van Zandt. But it was all about the Van Zandt brothers on Friday. Middletown honored the duo in their hometown with the naming of the street where they lived, Wilson Avenue in the New Monmouth section, after them — Van Zandt Way. Williams was there to host and bask in it all with the brothers. He, as a youngster, was a paperboy for the now defunct Courier newspaper.
Continue reading Scene Around: A Local Paperboy, Musician, Actor/Writer and a Street Naming A 53-year-old man has been convicted of the 2022 murder of his wife by strangulation following an argument and leaving her body on the side of a road in Ocean Township, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced Friday.
Continue reading Prosecutor: 53-Year-Old Man Convicted of Wife’s Murder A fatal Thursday morning crash in Manalapan is being investigated, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Friday.
Continue reading Prosecutor: Fatal Thursday Crash Under Investigation; Witnesses Sought 
This baseball season at RFH promises to be a home run hit, as bases are loaded with team cheer all about playing the field again. It’s spring and high school baseball season is officially in full swing.
Continue reading Retro RFH Baseball Dugout Daze An area man who entered a stranger’s home in 2021, threatened and robbed two occupants at knifepoint, and sexually assaulted one of them has been sentenced to 40 years in state prison, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Wednesday.
Continue reading Prosecutor: Area Man Gets 30 Years for 2021 Home Invasion, Sexual Assault Longtime Little Silver resident, beloved wife, mother, sister and “Mimi,” Pamela Nye Llewellyn, passed away on Sunday, April 21. She was 61.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Little Silver Resident, Pam Nye Llewellyn, 61 
A reprise in honor of the girls, baseball season and not having to wear these horrific mandatory gym suits anymore! Strike! The suits are out! Phew! Remember the fun and the horror with us … (Be sure to CLICK on one photo to enlarge and scroll to fully experience the horror. Ha!)
It’s just plain batty! Batter’s up at RFH as baseball season is in full swing. But, looking back at some RFH 1970s games, you have to wonder when or why, exactly, there was ever a season of the ol’ gym suit, baseball or softball aside.
Really. Ponder it. Those things that made girls look like Stay Puff marshmallows, or, worse, a big baby with a onesie that had enough space for a diaper or, well … you get the picture.
Continue reading Retro RFH Batty Gym Suit Home RunA former area gas station attendant has been indicted on 52 counts of credit card fraud charges stemming from the theft of thousands of dollars from 13 customers during his work shifts at a Freehold Wawa station, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Wednesday.
Continue reading Prosecutor: Ex-Gas Station Attendant Indicted on 52 Counts of Credit Card Theft from Customers Sean Townshend Black, of West Long Branch, passed away on Sunday, April 21, from cardio-renal syndrome, a complication of his end-stage renal disease, after an 18-year struggle with diabetes, depression and drug addiction. He was 32.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Sean Townshend Black, 32 
Quality river time. It’s a rite of passage for any Rumson-Fair Haven area kid.
When the spring air hits, the banks of the Navesink and Shrewsbury Rivers call to kids like mythological Sirens. And they burrow themselves in the sand and tides like hermit crabs.
Continue reading Retro Little Tykes’ River Time 
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