All posts by Elaine Van Develde

Local Life

Retro Cool River Rat Daze

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A 1976 River Rats crew Photo/courtesy Marc Edelman, Facebook
A 1976 River Rats crew
Photo/courtesy Marc Edelman, Facebook

All’s cool with these little rats in the pool … or, more like down by the river! A reprise from 2018 in ode to the tradition of summer recreating on the river in the Rumson-Fair Haven area. It’s all about River Rats, one summer rite of passage in the area … 

Unofficial summertime is here, with the official season’s start soon to set sail. And summers in the Rumson-Fair Haven area are rife with river-oriented activities that have become tradition.

River Rats’ sailing “camp” is no exception. OK, nobody was camping. It was more like a little club. Still is.

It’s been a sort of rite-of-living-on-the-Navesink passage for decades — since 1955. Kids learn how to boat and do a lot of summer fun bonding in the process.

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Police and Fire, Red Bank Police & Fire Files

Police Report: Burglary, Theft, Aggravated Assault, Weapons, Terroristic Threats, Defiant Trespass, DWIs

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

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Obituaries, Opinion

Ruth Blaser’s Fair Haven Mic Drop: Soaring with the Principles of an Iconic Dragon Gadfly

We are gathered here today … in gratitude for a Fair Haven gadfly. Mic drop.

Gadfly. It’s a caricature of those governing body meeting regulars, the characters who persists in challenging authority or the status quo, holding officials accountable, prompting change or even self-reflection. Gadfly. It’s not the true menace it sounds like. In fact, there’s a lot of beauty in a gadfly. Call it a dragon gadfly — a colorful, principled mosquito eater, ridding the environment to which it always returns of welt-wielding pestilence.

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Police and Fire, Regional Interest

Prosecutor: Accident Kills Pedestrian and Injures Child Carried by Him

A Saturday night accident that resulted in the death of a male pedestrian the child he was carrying is under investigation, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Sunday.

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