A Monmouth University student is facing an armed robbery charge in connection to an incident on the campus Tuesday night, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced on Wednesday.
Keith L. Williams, 18, of Baltimore, Maryland, a student at the university, has been charged with first-degree armed robbery.
The background …
Continue reading Prosecutor: Monmouth U ‘Gunman’ Arrested, Charged with Armed Robbery
You could say a ghoulishly good time was had by all on Halloween in the Fair Haven schools.
The Oct. 31 fun began before the school day ended and trick-or-treating in the neighborhoods began.
Continue reading A Glance Back: Fair Haven Schools’ Halloween
The following criminal incidents and arrests were reported by Red Bank police. An arrest does not constitute a conviction.
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The following recent criminal incidents and arrests were reported by Shrewsbury police. An arrest does not constitute a conviction.
Within an hour of Monmouth University officials sending out an emergency notification at roughly 10 p.m. telling all on campus a man was seen on campus with a gun and to stay indoors and “await further instructions,” it was announced that the suspect had been apprehended.
Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Spanish students have a sister … school.
The sister is Isabel de Castilla Public High School in Avila, Spain.
Students in several RFH Spanish classes have begun fostering friendships with the students in Spain through Edmodo, an online educational and social network.
In February of 2017, 17 students and two teacher chaperones will travel from Isabel de Castilla Public High School to visit RFH. Spending the week in homestays, the group will attend classes at RFH as well as participate in special events.
The events include: attending the World Language Department’s Languapalooza talent show; sharing a meal prepared by the RFH Cooking Club; and joining the Spanish National Honor Society for a welcome fiesta.
The trip is designed to provide cultural insight into life as a teenager in Rumson and Fair Haven. The group from Spain will travel to New York City and Philadelphia as well.
A reciprocal journey for RFH students is planned for the 2017-18 school year. RFH students and teacher chaperones will stay with local families and attend classes at Isabel de Castilla in Avila, a small medieval walled city about an hour west of Madrid.
“We are really looking forward to having firsthand insight into the practices, products, and perspectives of the Spanish youth and their culture,” said RFH Spanish teacher Christina Gauss. “We hope to collaborate with the Spanish students throughout the school year.”
As part of their classwork, students in the RFH Advanced Placement Spanish Language and Culture course recently created and sent videos to students at Isabel de Castilla. The videos showcase life at RFH and in the surrounding communities.
In addition, the RFH students developed an online survey to gather information on how social media platforms are used to promote social movements. The online survey has been sent to the students in Spain as well as students and community members in the RFH community. The RFH students plan to compare and contrast the results from RFH and Avila, Spain.
The student groups from RFH and Spain have also begun an ongoing conversation on the A Day in the Life topic. Students in Gauss’ Spanish 4 Honors class created an electronic visual collage that best describes their personalities and lifestyles, and they have shared these collages with the students in Spain. Students in Daniella Goodarz’s and Seth Herman’s Spanish III Honors classes will soon begin interacting with the students from Avila using Edmodo as well.
“This is an excellent opportunity for our students to forge a meaningful and authentic cultural and linguistic exchange,” said Herman, supervisor of World Language at RFH.
The sister school relationship became official this past July when Gauss met with Aida Marquez, English teacher and Bilingual Program Director at Isabel de Castilla, to finalize the details.
The meeting occurred after Gauss had traveled to Spain for a week-long professional development course at the University of Alcala’s Summer Spanish Language and Culture Institute for U.S. Teachers of Spanish.
During the course, 85 teachers from all regions of the U.S. compared and contrasted their educational systems, shared best practices for second language acquisition, explored ideas to increase student engagement, and collaborated on projects to promote students’ global competence skills.
— Edited press release from Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School
Happy Halloween to all from the RFH Class of ’78!
Photos/George Day
The weather and spirits were on the side of all the good ghouls who came to the grounds of Forrestdale School for Rumson’s Halloween parading and festivities.
Hundreds of costumed kids and families gathered for games, goodies and socializing.
Take a look (And don’t forget to click to enlarge!) … Oh, and Happy Halloween!
— Elaine Van Develde
Well, you could say the third time was a charm for the first annual Fair Haven Trucktoberfest.
The new, more family-friendly, sponsored by the non-profit Foundation of Fair Haven, had been put off twice before Saturday due to inclement weather.
But, Saturday it was this time. And the weather was fine and, by the looks of the faces and the mood, people were pleased.
Take a look (Don’t forget to click to enlarge!) …
— Elaine Van Develde
Fall is in the air. The weather is forecasted to be quite fine for the weekend, and there’s plenty going on.
The fall air was crisp, the clouds clinging to it and the colors vivid. It was another dusk at the Fair Haven Dock.
The scene just doesn’t get old for most. The serenity. The stillness. The Navesink River resting at the end of the day.
You can almost hear the exhale.
Give a listen. Take a look …
— Elaine Van Develde
She’s coming home. Longtime Fair Havenite Evelyn Halliday Murphy will be honored and bid farewell on Friday and Saturday in her hometown community where she lived most of her life, raised a family, volunteered and was a bright, kind comforting everyday presence — a gentle, beaming reminder around every corner of what hometown really means.
Evelyn passed away at 97 on Sept. 3 at the home of her son, David, in Florida, where she had been living. The family is reuniting with the community to say goodbye in the town she loved surrounded by people and places she loved.
Many remember her bright red hair, warm smile and kind no-nonsense words. A volunteer at Knollwood School, the Fair Haven Election Board and Church of the Nativity, where her funeral service is set for Saturday, Evelyn also participated in local theater and worked at Steinbach’s Department Store in Red Bank for 35 years, retiring at 83.
Evelyn eventually came to Fair Haven from Tarrytown, NY, where she was born. She had spent her summers in Rockaway Beach where her parents ran a restaurant on the boardwalk.
Shortly after World War II, Evelyn met her husband, John. In 1950, they moved to Fair Haven, where they raised their seven children. After John’s death in 1980, Evelyn continued to live on Hunting Lane until moving to Jensen Beach, Florida, where she lived with her son David and daughter-in-law, Dorothy and eventually passed away peacefully.
In addition to her husband, Evelyn was predeceased by her brother, Herbert Halliday. She is survived by: her children, Christopher, Kenneth, Timothy (Karen), Thomas, David (Dorothy), Eileen Pedersen (Jeffrey), Jeanne Wnorowski (Mark), ten grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
For all those in the community who would like to say goodbye and honor Evelyn Murphy’s memory, visitation will be held Friday, Oct. 28 at John E. Day Funeral Home, 85 Riverside Ave., Red Bank from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m.
A Celebration of Life Mass will be held at the Church of the Nativity, 180 Ridge Rd., Fair Haven at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29. The interment will follow at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Middletown.
You may visit Evelyn’s memorial website at www.johnedayfuneralhome.com.
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