Well, we took a little time off from garden toiling last week, relaxed and mused about the bountiful mess of it all and what to do. Yes, now is the time to address some common issues we see in the late-summer garden. Let’s dig in!
Continue reading Grow with Grace: How to Weed Through Your Garden’s Good, Bad & UglyAll posts by Elaine Van Develde
Retro Fair Havenites’ Day at the Beach
Cooking Up ’50s-Style Fun on Starvation Island

It’s all fun and island-hopping games until they have to start a fire.
Yes, there comes a time when summer Rumson island-hopping coolness sets in, parents rang the unheard dinner bell and a bunch of hungry, wayward, marooned kids try to cook that fish they caught and toast their own little buns.
Continue reading Cooking Up ’50s-Style Fun on Starvation IslandPolice Report: Weapons, Assault, Ammo Possession, Burglary, Harassment, Theft
The following July criminal incidents and arrests were reported by Red Bank police. An arrest does not constitute a conviction.
Continue reading Police Report: Weapons, Assault, Ammo Possession, Burglary, Harassment, TheftIn Memoriam: Little Silver Resident, Activist, Gail Abrams, 89
Little Silver resident, Gail G. Abrams, passed away peacefully on Aug. 14. She was 89.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Little Silver Resident, Activist, Gail Abrams, 89In Memoriam: Longtime Little Silver Resident, Former Dorn’s Photo Shop Owner, Bill Matlack III, 82
Longtime Little Silver resident, Red Bank High School graduate and former Dorn’s Photo Shop owner, Albert E. Matlack III, “lovingly known as Bill,” passed away peacefully on Aug. 9 in South Carolina, surrounded by his loving wife and children. He was 82.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Little Silver Resident, Former Dorn’s Photo Shop Owner, Bill Matlack III, 82Retro Crazy Days of RFH Boys’ Summer

Photo/courtesy of Paul Hughes, Class of ’79 reunion slideshow
A reprise in honor of sizzling hot summer days on the beach with some cool RFH guys …
Remember that horror movie When a Stranger Calls? The babysitter gets a repeated freaky call from a stranger asking, in measured terror tones, “Have you checked the children lately?”
Continue reading Retro Crazy Days of RFH Boys’ SummerDWI Checkpoint Set for Friday Night
Another summer weekend will start with a DWI checkpoint, The Monmouth County DWI Task Force announced.
Continue reading DWI Checkpoint Set for Friday NightGrow with Grace: Order in the Garden, Tomato, Tomahto & Cocktail Concoctions
Here we are in the middle of August. That neat, orderly garden you planted back in May is probably looking a whole lot more chaotic now. What to do to bring the garden and its harvest joy back?
Continue reading Grow with Grace: Order in the Garden, Tomato, Tomahto & Cocktail ConcoctionsRetro Fair Haven Gals’ Fair Show Boating

Photo/.FHFD
The heat is on and the countdown has already begun to the Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair.
And, back in the day, the 1960s day, the fire department, rather than raffling off a car, SUV or a big chunk of cash (as in Super 50/50), decided to make a boat the prized prize of the fair. And they advertised that with the help of some fire department-affiliated bathing beauties.
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Gals’ Fair Show BoatingScene Around: Donovan’s 50th; Yesteryear ‘Cheers!’

It was something to dance about — or “Cheers!” about, at least. And while there was no dancing in the street in Sea Bright, there was what looked like some dancing on the deck at Donovan’s Reef on Aug. 10 when the iconic Sea Bright beachfront bar and grill was celebrated for its 50 years in existence by a Monmouth County official and its owners.
Continue reading Scene Around: Donovan’s 50th; Yesteryear ‘Cheers!’In Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite, Kathleen O’Neill Marass, 95
Longtime Rumsonite Kathleen Ann O’Neill passed away peacefully on Aug. 7. She was 95.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite, Kathleen O’Neill Marass, 95






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