Oops! Looks like someone’s skeleton is out of the closet … and roaming the neighborhood in Fair Haven.
Scene Around: Skeleton Out of the Closet for Spooky Season
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A look, in photos, of latest area events, local everyday people and places.
Retro Halloween Schooling & Parading
Photo/Kathy Robbins
So, a karate kid, a baseball player, a cop, two witches, a vampire and a boxer walk onto a school stage …
That means only one thing. It’s Halloween season and that means that soon it will be school pageant time — or whatever they call it. Yes, it’s that time when all the little guys and ghouls in school get dressed up and parade through the classroom, down the hall and into the auditorium for a spooky show of Halloween spirit — or something like that. Nowadays there’s a Halloween egg hunt in the area towns. That’s something that still has this 1960s and ’70s kid a bit baffled. But, hey, whatever floats your Halloween gondola, Jack-O-Lantern or whatever. It’s still a fun time of year at school.
Retro Firemen’s Halloween Party Posse
It’s spooky and kooky Halloween party season.
And there’s nothing quite like a costume party full of festive, fun fiends who take full advantage of the season to say the devil made them do it when it comes to tricks and the sometimes questionable treat of their disguises.
Retro RFH Halloween Parading
Photo/George Day
Well, the sun is out and it’s time to start the Halloween parading and take it outside. It’s never too soon to start the festivities, after all.
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Scene Around: An RFH Senior and a Heroic Locals’ Summer Save
What started out as a simple locals’ summer Sunday swim turned, with a deceptive tempestuous tide, into an ocean rescue at the skilled hands of off-duty Long Branch Ocean Rescue and Jersey Shore YMCA lifeguard Cameron Rice, a Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) senior and Fair Havenite.
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Retro RFH Boys of Soccer
Photo/George Day
Yes, soccer season has kicked in.
Focus: Falling for Sea Bright Locals’ Summer
They’re falling for it — that last bit of locals’ summer.
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Retro Rumson Cold Brew Tenders’ TGIF
Photo/courtesy of Jim Mellaci
Hey, brew tender, spend a little time with us!
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Retro RFH Band Marching Times
Photo/RFH Yearbook
Reprise in honor of the RFH Marching Band’s recent big win in the Tournament of Bands competition …
It’s that time of the year. It’s football season. And that means it’s also time for the RFH Marching Band to play the field, too.
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Retro RFH Smiley Cheerleader Pile-up
“Push ’em back. Push ’em back … waaaayyyy back!” We’re not talking football with that. We’re talking the year of that kind of cheer and its leaders — the RFH cheerleaders of the early 1970s.
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Retro RFH TGIF Brewhaha
Photo/courtesy of Jill Sorrentino
Those are not lined up bottles of Lowenbrau in this 1980s pic, yet RFH old timers can’t help but hear the classic jingle in their minds when seeing this. “Here’s to good friends. Tonight is kinda special …” Yes. TGIF.
Retro Fair Haven Picture Day Class Action
A reprise in honor of longtime iconic teacher and friend to many in the area, Gary Verwilt, who passed away recently …
We’re talking class action; and, it’s not about a lawsuit — more like suiting up for a class picture.
That’s what they did back in the early 1970s. Well, at least one in this shot suited up in the literal sense. Figuratively speaking, though, this Sickles School sixth grade shot of Gary Verwilt’s class encapsulates that picture day mindset of the past.
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