All posts by Elaine Van Develde

Retro Forrestdale Basketball Slam Dunk

A 1970s RFH basketball moment Photo/George Day
A 1970s RFH basketball moment
Photo/George Day

It’s basketball season these school days, and a particularly winning one at RFH. So, we’re bringing this up again …

It’s no secret that RFH has had some slam dunk success with the sport. So has Rumson’s Forrestdale School. 

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Prosecutor: Area Man Pleads Guilty to Murder Trial Witness Retaliation, Weapon Possession

An area 21-year-old man has pleaded guilty trying to intimidate a witness who testified in a 2024 murder trial and unlawful possession of a weapon, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Thursday.

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Retro RFH NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade March

RFH Marching Band and Twirlers in NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade circa 1984
Photo/Kitty Beeman

Our annual St. Patrick’s Day memory reprise, just because … it’s a classic scene that must be revisited …

In the Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade’s aftermath, we’re looking back at the luck of the Irish and not-so-Irish at RFH and another parade — the big one. We are remembering a time when the RFH Marching Band, Twirlers and Drill Team not only marched in area St. Patrick’s Day parades, but made it to the big one in New York City. Call it an Irish step dance of sorts — the marching and entertaining sorts.

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Police Report: Theft, Drugs, Evidence Tampering, Fraud, Child Endangerment, Defiant Trespass, Harassment

The following February criminal incidents and arrests were reported by Red Bank police. An arrest does not constitute a conviction.

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Retro RFH St. Patrick’s Day Parading

RFH Band marches in St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Belmar in 1993
Photo/Kathy Robbins

The Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade passed by last Sunday. And we’re thinking that there’s nothing quite like celebrating tomorrow’s St. Patrick’s Day, Irish or not, with a couple of bulldogs leading your alma mater’s marching band. That’s how RFH did it back in 1993.

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Retro RFH Girls’ Night TGIF Calling

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

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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Rumson Police Report: Prohibited Weapons Possession, Receiving Stolen Property, Fencings

The following February arrests were reported by Rumson police. An arrest does not constitute a conviction.

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Prosecutor: Former Police Officer Convicted of Two Counts of Vehicular Homicide in Fatal 2021 Accident

A former police officer has been convicted at trial of vehicular homicide in connection with a fatal 2021 accident that killed two people, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Thursday.

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Retro RFH Dank Day Riders in the Commons

Riding with the wind — or something — at RFH in the 1970s Photo/George Day
Riding with the wind — or something — at RFH in the 1970s
Photo/George Day

The sun has made an appearance or two lately, even though there are still a few snow piles standing, but it’s now back to rain, thunder and, yes, dank days. And people, like cooped-up RFH students are likely stir crazy and ready to make a break for it and ride out of bleak winter blues and into warm sunsets. Incognito or not.

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