Former captain with the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Navy veteran and Red Bank Catholic High School graduate, Thomas Joseph Philburn, known as Tom, TJ, dad, uncle, brother, Captain, and Poppop, passed away on May 9.
They made it official.
Nineteen Rumson-Fair Haven (RFH) Regional High School student-athletes on May 8 signed Letters of Intent, officially committing to continue their academic and athletic careers at colleges and universities across the country.
Fair Haven residents and beyond are still fishing for an answer to what they see as a rogue wave of a Fair Haven governing body decision to knock a volunteer out of a regional committee, of his own resurrection, designed to protect the Navesink River.
What was dubbed an unprecedented “slap in the face” turned into some verbal fisticuffs when a tsunami of riled residents at Monday’s Fair Haven Borough Council meeting turned out to turn the tide of borough business by defending that volunteer — fourth-generation Fair Havenite and boat captain, Brian Rice. It became a full wipe-out when the ousting became official with a contentious undertow of a 3-2 vote with one abstention.
Continue reading Public Fishes for Reason Native Fair Havenite Tossed from Volunteer SpotAn area youth soccer coach has been charged with distributing sexually explicit images to and engaging in sexually explicit conversations with eight of the student-athletes under his supervision, two of whom he also allegedly touched inappropriately, Deputy First Assistant Prosecutor Christopher J. Decker announced on Tuesday.
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge construction work remains status quo, with a lot of road realignment work on the Rumson side and connecting of the new bridge foundation to the land in Sea Bright continuing. All construction continues this week on the usual 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. schedule though Friday, weather permitting.
They’re riding for those who died.
Thursday marked the start of the Police Unity Tour. The tour, trumpeting the motto, “We Ride for Those Who Died,” takes hundreds of current and retired police officers from all over New Jersey on a bicycle ride to the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington DC in honor of fallen law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty. Each cycling officer rides in memory of a particular fallen one. Each year, the officers embark on the tour from a different Jersey spot. This year, they left from Mercer County.
Continue reading Scene Around: Rumson, Fair Haven Cops Ride for Those Who DiedCall it a case of Rumson junior high honor students honoring their environment. The beach is basically their back yard and they’re keeping it clean.
Continue reading Focus: Forrestdale Honor Students Honor Beach with Clean-UpLongtime Fair Havenite Madeline Muise passed away peacefully at her Fair Haven home, surrounded by her loving family, on May 5. She was 81.
Longtime former Rumsonite Kathleen Gahn passed away on May 5 after a courageous battle with ovarian cancer. She was 84.
It’s not every day that a casual baseball game causes a player to levitate — just one day back in the 1970s.
We’re not sure of exactly what happened here on the field, but RFH yearbook photographer George Day caught this home run of a shot — mid-air.
Continue reading Retro RFH Boys’ Jump for Baseball JoyHaving a cocktail at the movies just became legit at a historic movie theater in Red Bank.
Environmentalists from various contingents all over the state called it a victory for ocean and sea life health.
With Clean Ocean Action at the helm, that victory against what they dubbed a Goliath methane gas project was celebrated on the Keyport waterfront on Monday by the large, broad-based coalition of organizations from the Delaware River to the sea.
After nearly eight years of permit filings and extensions, Williams Transco’s Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) project finally expired.
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