Lightning struck once in Rumson on Friday and sparked a roof fire.
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Scene Around: Fair Haven’s Rice Associates Honored by River Rats
Longtime Fair Haven-based, family-owned marine construction firm, Rice Associates, was recently recognized by River Rats, the borough’s 71-year-old non-profit educational sailing club, with what has been dubbed the Beacon of Light Award.
Continue reading Scene Around: Fair Haven’s Rice Associates Honored by River RatsGrow with Grace: Get Cooking with Your Tomato Avalanche!
Welcome back to Grow with Grace!
Here’s the deal. if you have a garden, then I know you have tomatoes …and you know you have tomatoes. The question is: What do you do with all of them?
Continue reading Grow with Grace: Get Cooking with Your Tomato Avalanche!DWI Checkpoints for Weekend Start Tonight
Tonight kicks off a weekend of DWI checkpoints in the shore area, The Monmouth County DWI Task Force announced.
Continue reading DWI Checkpoints for Weekend Start TonightRetro RFHers’ Donovan’s Party Time

Photo/Lisa Mazurek D’Amato
Yes, it’s reunion season. It’s also this RFH Class of ’78 editor’s birthday season. Ahem. So, there’s no better time to take you back again to a hoot of a 25th for the RFH Class of ’78 at an iconic spot in its original little-shack- on-the-beach form — Donovan’s Reef.
Before Sandy, a “DO” at Donovan’s meant something entirely different for RFHers reuniting. Rather than a symbol of “We can do it. We can rebuild.” it was more like a simple “Let’s do the Donovan’s thing!”
Continue reading Retro RFHers’ Donovan’s Party TimeIn Memoriam: Fair Haven Native, Fire Company Auxiliary Life Member, Trish Connor DePonti, 73
Fair Haven native, Trish Connor DePonti passed away peacefully after a long-fought illness on Aug. 4, surrounded by loved ones. She was 73.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Haven Native, Fire Company Auxiliary Life Member, Trish Connor DePonti, 73Focus: A Night Out with Fair Haven’s Finest
As tradition of decades has had it across the country, last night was National Night Out.
Continue reading Focus: A Night Out with Fair Haven’s FinestRetro ‘Night Out’ Mayoral Dunkin’
Reprise … in honor of the best of National Night Out times …
Every year there’s a Fair Haven National Night Out. Tonight’s that night.
It’s a night, celebrated on the national level, designed to familiarize residents, from kids to seniors, with police and other emergency responders in town. That Night Out is always the first Tuesday in August. So, Tuesday it is in Fair Haven. There are plenty of Night Out memories to recall, but this featured one is a classic from 13 years ago.
There are games, demonstrations, looks at emergency equipment, food, smiles and handshakes — and a dunk tank.
Continue reading Retro ‘Night Out’ Mayoral Dunkin’Scene Around: River Rats Reunited; Sailing on in Mayor’s Cup

— Photo/River Rats
A little bit of sun shone through overcast skies when a couple of Fair Haven River Rats were reunited as youth sailors sailed through fair winds and choppy waters recently to participate in the longtime borough maritime tradition, the Mayor’s Cup.
Continue reading Scene Around: River Rats Reunited; Sailing on in Mayor’s CupIn Memoriam: Fair Haven-Raised RFH ’85 Grad, Ellen Golembeski Davis, 59
Fair Haven-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH)_ graduate, Ellen Golembeski Davis, more recently of the Belford section of Middletown, passed away peacefully on June 23, surrounded by her family. She was 59.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Haven-Raised RFH ’85 Grad, Ellen Golembeski Davis, 59In Memoriam: Longtime Little Silver Resident, RCDS Grad, Sailor, Bill Van Winkle, 92

Longtime Little Silver resident, Bill Van Winkle, passed peacefully at home on July 24. He was 92.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Little Silver Resident, RCDS Grad, Sailor, Bill Van Winkle, 92Retro Sea Bright Beach Clubbing

Sometimes ya just have to go clubbing … in Sea Bright … before the age of 10.
After all, what good Rumson kid didn’t? Not many, if any. And back in the summer of ’69, little Claire Hurd was one who went clubbing … to Sea Bright Beach Club, of course, with the best of them. It was just the way Rumsonites rolled in the summer. Still do.
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