A look, in photos, of latest area events, local everyday people and places.
Last dance? Last chance for fun? Not for these RFHers! Never.
Forty-five years ago, the RFH Class of ’78 kids, like these four, were off to their senior dinner dance at The Shore Casino in Atlantic Highlands. They’d have never imagined then that 45 years later, they’d be right back where they thought they’d danced their last teen-spirited dance.
Continue reading Retro RFH Senior Dinner Dancing Girls & a Guy
Talk about making the reunion grade … They just can’t get enough of one another.
Continue reading Scene Around: Holy Cross Kids’ Reunion Rollick
Hot diggity! The Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair time is drawing near!
Continue reading Retro Hot Diggity Fair Hot Dogging
It’s summertime and the RFH reunions are revving up with a big “Cheers to the class!” — whichever it may be.
In fact, the RFH Class of ‘73 is celebrating half a century since graduation with its 50th reunion on the same night that the Class of ’78 is having its 45th — Aug. 26.
Continue reading Retro RFH Class of ’73 Reuniting & 50th Rev-Up
Well, we’re steeped in summertime; and RFH reunions are coming in hot.
Continue reading Retro RFH Cool Guys’ First Reunion
No horsing around. Sometimes it’s just all about a Monmouth County girl, her miniature horse and some big advice.
The girl? That’s 17-year-old incoming Freehold Township High School senior Dallas Blair, the new New Jersey Miss Agriculture USA 2024. The mini horse? That’s 8-year-old Daisy in the stable, or Chrome’s Oops a Daisy in shows. Her equine stage name, in other words.
And speaking of words, if you happened to see Daisy and Blair at the 4-H tent at Monmouth County Fair on Sunday or sometime last week, you may have not only been treated to a good showing. Blair may have horse-whispered her words of teen “love what you do” wisdom to you.
Continue reading Living the Dream: A Girl and Her ‘Oops a Daisy’ Horseplay
Everyone deserves a night out. And, sometimes, like every first Tuesday in August, that involves the police.
This year was no exception in Fair Haven. It’s called National Night Out.
Continue reading Scene Around: Fair Haven Cops on a ‘Night Out’
They’re all revved up with somewhere to go — a Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) 45th reunion.
Continue reading RFH Class of ’78: Revved Up for a 45th Reunion
You could say she’s booked. In fact, she’s been booked for quite some time.
Longtime former Rumsonite Renee Swartz was recently (on July 19), and quite literally, booked at an event honoring her work with Monmouth County Library System since 1960 and, mostly, her retirement from her work since 2001 as founder and chair of the NJ Center for the Book at the Molly Pitcher Inn in Red Bank.
Continue reading Scene Around: Rumsonite Renee Swartz’s Literacy Honor Among Friends
Call it a wash. Down came that rain and washed the murky, humid muck in the air away.
And like the song, it seems like “you can see forever more,” especially from the iconic shores of the Navesink down by Barnacle Bill’s. No matter how far a hometown Rumsonite or Fair Havenite roams, the riverfront always calls them back to hold them tight.
It’s never a fishing expedition. The line was cast long ago and the anchor never rusts. This one’s a diamond. Unbreakable, it glistens with magnetic light shining, calling from deep in the river’s sandy floor.
The precious anchor stone’s gleam reflects in that hometown kid’s eyes, offering the view no one else has. It’s from that river’s shores that, murk or not, that kid at heart can see more clearly every inch of beauty that’s always been there, yet still lies ahead. They look back while looking ahead to see those little big things that brought them there. Held them there.
Those things? They’re still holding … with soothing tightness.
Hold those thoughts and keep them … like a kid collecting shells down by the river.
Click on one photo in the above gallery to enlarge and scroll. Enjoy the view!
— Elaine Van Develde
The weather forecast …
Heatwave humidity and wildfire smoke has cleared. Here’s what’s in store with the weather in the Rumson-Fair Haven area through the weekend and into next week.
It’s summertime. And in the truest of carpe-the-summertime-diem spirits, there’s no simpler a summer pleasure than an impromptu reunion among Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) grads before the 45th reunion main event.
Continue reading Simple Summer: RFHers’ Pre-Reunion Reuniting
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