Prosecutor: Man Arrested on Charges of Seeking Sexual Encounter with 15-Year-Old

A 50-year-old man has been arrested and charged with seeking a sexual encounter with an undercover detective he thought was a 15-year-old girl, then endangering the public while fleeing the allegedly proposed rendezvous scene, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Friday.

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Retro RFH Tower Players’ Show Builders & Shakers

Another RFH Tower Players fall show, another set to be built. So it goes in the theater world, high school or not. This and, yes, it goes like that. As actors rehearse, the behind-the-scenes scene is literally set — or built, to be exact. It takes a set … and actors … and lighting … and sound … and, bippity-boppity-boo, the show goes on. And so it goes for this year’s fall production of Cinderella.

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Retro RFH Clowns Playing the Field in a Clown Car

RFH cheerleader guys and a VW bug circa 1977
Photo/George Day

A reprise in honor of David Memmott, RFH ’78, who passed away suddenly four years ago, on Sept. 29, 2022. Ride on, Dave …

Sometimes you just find yourself up a puddle without a paddle. And sometimes the way around it, or through it, is by spilling out of a VW bug like a bunch of RFH clowns in a clown car.

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Scene Around: Fair Haven Artist Paints a ‘Meet Me at the Ferris Wheel’ Connection

“Meet me at the beer booth.” Seemingly since the dawn of Fair Haven time, it’s been the mantra for friends, new and old, connecting at the Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair.

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RFH’s Tower Players Set Stage for Fall Production of ‘Cinderella, Youth Edition’

The cliche “If the shoe fits …” is, indeed, fitting for the the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Players’ announcement that its fall musical production of Cinderella, Youth Edition will come to the high school’s stage in late November.

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Retro TGIF RFH Girls’ Night of Prank Calling and Forever Bonding

RFH girls’ night at home circa late 1970s/early ’80s
Photo/Leslie Gunther

This Retro Pic of the Day is being reprised in loving memory of RFH ’80 Jenny McCullough (top, right) who passed away very suddenly recently. Jenny knew the true meaning of unbreakable bonding among childhood friends and firmly believed that “love never dies …. ” You were so loved, Jenny, and you will be forever missed by us kids and times together you never forgot and reminded us of frequently with a good laugh and tons of love …

What do you get when you put a gaggle of RFH girls in a flowery ’70s wallpapered kitchen with a nouveau push-button wall phone? A girls’ night — starring the phone. We’re not saying that was the case here, just imagining. Follow us in this inspired daydream into the past. Hey, there was such a thing — a girls’ night starring that phone.

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Fair Haven Mayoral Candidates to Debate Online Tonight

The three candidates for the four-year center seat on the governing body in Fair Haven, to be vacated by present Mayor Josh Halpern, are slated to debate in a League of Women Voters of Monmouth County-moderated, non-partisan webinar forum at 7 p.m. tonight, Thursday.

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