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Retro ‘Night Out’ Mayoral Dunkin’

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Fair Haven Mayor Ben Lucarelli gets a dunking at Night Out 2012 Photo/Elaine Van Develde
Fair Haven Mayor Ben Lucarelli gets a dunking at Night Out 2012
Photo/Elaine Van Develde

Reprise … in honor of the best of National Night Out times …

Every year there’s a Fair Haven National Night Out.

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.

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Local Life

Simple Summer: The RFH Musical Mom Connection on the Dock

“This is me not crabbing on the dock during a concert! Thanks to everyone who came out to listen to The Band of the Two Rivers season finale!” ~ Joanne Formisano

Extra Fair Haven Dock signage signaling a ban on fishing and crabbing during concerts and other restrictions
Photo/Joanne Formisano

No one was crabby about it, just fishing for some music. Call it a simple summer note of musical appreciation and RFH connection. An RFH Performing Arts Society mom took center dock to play to her own tune of musical talent with the Band of the Two Rivers on Wednesday.

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Retro Hot Rumson Summer Coolness

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Summer sunning in Rumson with the Slocum family. Photo/courtesy of Jo Ann Slocum Mazzucca
Summer sunning in Rumson with the Slocum family.
Photo/courtesy of Jo Ann Slocum Mazzucca

Back in the day, Rumson summers weren’t all about going to the beach club from dawn ’til dusk.

For some, it was as simple skipping the packing up of the family, not to mention the cost, and just laying a blanket out on the lawn and catching some rays while the kids played.

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Retro Rumson Renegades in the Park

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Kid congregation at Victory Park in the 1960s
Photo/courtesy of Ed Pomphrey, Rumson historical archives

It’s just plain campy! There’s nothing like a nice summer day replete with some bubble-blowing, power-posing, bathing suited, short-sporting kids on a mission to make some summer fun — at camp … or something like it.

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Old News: RFH’s ‘Damn Yankees’ Summer Theatrics

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Leave Lola and the Devil out of it. Whatever RFHers want, RFHers get …

And, back in the summer of ’75, they wanted summer stock theater. And they got it — a brutally fun load of it crammed into five dramatic dancing, singing, acting weeks among RFHers.

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