A look, in photos, of latest area events, local everyday people and places.
A winter version reprise, by popular demand in the comments about where RFH students went on “frees,” from July 30, 2022 … This was a “free period” hot spot …
It’s all about being cool these winter days. It was in the 70s for RFHers, too.
Continue reading Retro RFHers’ Cool Campus Hangout 
When chilly days and Mondays got RFH juniors a little down, they just copped a squat with a pop in the Junior Lounge.
Continue reading Retro RFH Junior ‘Pop’ Lounging 
The following is a reprise of our Old News column, originally posted on Jan. 30, 2024, about the Fair Haven Fire Department’s Spaghetti Dinner, because tonight’s the night for the longtime annual tradition. Mangia!
People have been filling their gullets with a heaping helping of spaghetti and meatballs at the Fair Haven Fire Department’s annual spaghettini dinner for several decades. And tonight will be no exception.
Continue reading Old News: Stirring the Pot at the Spaghetti Dinner 
Call him smokin’ cold Frosty. He’s that apparently armless blob of snow day snow at the hands of four Fair Haven miscreants of the 1960s.
Continue reading Retro Smokin’ Cold Fair Haven Snowman Daze 
To go along with the second snowfall and snow day by default for R-FH area schools on MLK Day … A snowy reprise and musing about snow days at RFH …
Well, they’re calling it a snow day. It seems like these days it doesn’t take much of the fluffy white stuff to blow the snow day whistle — broadcast it on social media is more like it nowadays.
Continue reading Retro RFH Snow Day Drive 
The time was always right for a toga party among RFH friends back in the 70s and 80s.
Continue reading Retro RFH TGIF Toga Gals … and Guy 
Yes, we are in the throes of winter and its big chill. After some snow and freeze, the sun came out today and made the cold sting just a little brighter.
With that first little bit of white stuff in a flurry around the Rumson-Fair Haven area, our minds might be transported in time to RFH days when there was a small group of enthusiasts that loved the snow and took to the slopes regularly — the now defunct RFH Ski Club.
Continue reading Retro RFH Ski Club Sloping 
“I remember when my grandfather moved here way back when Rumson Road was considered one of the ‘most beautiful’ in the country,” said RFH Class of ’78 grad Monica Sheehan of what many might call a picture perfect postcard of the snowy day shot of sleighing down the driveway on the estate of the historic mansion called The Hermitage.
Continue reading Retro Rumson Snowy Estate Magic 
Well, after a lot of warnings and prep, the week’s ones played host to the snowstorm that wasn’t. Oh, there was some snow and freeze, but it was no Blizzard of ’96 or ’78. Yes, back in the day, there were plenty of snowstorms that actually snowed Rumson-Fair Haven area folks in and left them to their own devices for resorting to fun in the freezing white stuff.
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Snow Day Sirens 
Back in the day, some RFH students preferred to literally chill outside the Senior Commons rather than inside.
To them, those cool dudes, it was the perfect setting for a little pow-wow. Maybe the discussion was heated, though, right? Looks like it could have been. It is the season of reorganizations, after all. And with that dusting of snow, what better time than to chill and get that cool dudes’ hierarchy settled. Ahem …
Continue reading Retro RFH Cool Dudes’ Senior Reorg Chill 
It’s a classic snow story worth repeating …
Our Retro Pic of the Day takes us back to a blizzard that was true to its word.
What was dubbed The Blizzard of ’96 hit the Rumson-Fair Haven area with full force in early January of 1996. This one lived up to its promise to render everyone in the area immobile.
Continue reading Retro Blizzard of ’96 Among RFH Friends 
There’s a new chief in town. Well, there’s a new chief, deputy chief, assistant chiefs, lieutenants, captains, president and vice president in the Fair Haven Fire Department’s fire company, first aid squad, auxiliary and water rescue.
Continue reading Scene Around: Swearing In Fair Haven Fire Department’s Line Officers 
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