Photo/Pat Reed Wright
Call it a snow storming at the shove-wielding hands of a Fair Havenite and vet in the early 1960s.
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Category Archives: Local Life
A look, in photos, of latest area events, local everyday people and places.
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Scene Around: Still Funnin’ with a Forever Fair Haven Trio & a Mom
Still hangin’ after all these years …
There’s nothing like the warmth of lifelong friendship on a dank, wintry day.
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Retro Frontlining Fair Haven Doc & Mayor
Photos/FHFD and Kathy Robbins
There’s something about memories of an iconic doctor, mayor, house calls, volunteerism and community that soothe what ails the stressed and scared in surging pandemic and vaccination times.
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Scene Around: Foxy Playmate
Photo/Joanne Formisano
It’s not every day that you find a fox literally having a ball in you back yard, or enjoying a little swing on the seesaw, for that matter. Sometimes it’s on a Friday — last Friday, in fact, in this case. TGIF?
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Retro RFH Polar Bears’ Dive & Chill
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Rumson Police Chief Scott Paterson is diving into his annual Special Olympics New Jersey cause again — this time in distanced pandemic times.
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Living The Dream: Susan Sorensen’s Legacy of Heart for Home
“You gotta have heart … all you really need is heart!” ~ You Gotta Have Heart, Damn Yankees, lyrics by Jerry Ross
The signature championing song was belted out loud, clear and with a lot heart in the musical Damn Yankees. Heart is what former nine-year Fair Haven Councilwoman Susan Sorensen says you need at the core of not only your own legacy, but that of your home town. It’s a legacy that she’s forever striving to fulfill, on and off the dais.
Service to community is at the heart of family legacy for Sorensen. And, she said recently, she’s not anywhere near done fulfilling hers and continuing in her family’s without skipping a beat.
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Honoring MLK Day: Fair Haven’s Fisk Chapel Community
A reprise in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day of a look back into the hub of the cherished Fair Haven African-American community at Fisk Chapel, which is still standing today …
The Fair Haven Fisk Chapel AME Church is home to many community founders and their families. Its history juts deep into the entrenched roots of Fair Haven life
The modest little place and its humble, welcoming people have a very rich history all their own. A lot of the names and faces are traceable back to the early days of the church, back in the mid-1800s.
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Changing Landscape: Power of Place 2020
There’s a great deal of power in place. The places in people’s lives anchor them, comfort them, change them, inspire them. Each place to which we travel, even within our own hometown iconic spots, does one or all of these things. In one way or another, place defines us. That’s the power in place. It brings us to a home base in our hearts.
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Focus: Classic Santa Slaying Moments
Ohhhhh, the pain … of pandemic distancing? Well, when you look back at some scary Santa experiences, you start to think, uh, not so much. The pandemic may have spared some kids a lifetime of PTSD flashbacks of Beelzebub cloaked in ol’ Saint Nick garb and merriment.
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Retro Close Santa Encounter
Photo/Connor family
A reprise from Dec. 13, 2018, because everyone needs a little reminder of Santa time close up and personal …
As if one classic 1960s snapshot of a Fair Haven kid perched on Santa’s lap wasn’t enough … Clearly it wasn’t.
Retro Santa Firehouse Visit Times
It’s the year without close Santa encounters. Santa came to town, but not to the Fair Haven firehouse, as with every year since the dawn of most area kids’ time. We’re told there have been some other masked, distanced Santa visits in 2020 pandemic holiday times, but the laptop visit is out, so is the firehouse extravaganza. So, in honor of the traditional visit, whispers, close-up scary gander at that beard, promises of being good and gifts, our annual reprise takes everyone back to that firehouse visit … or wherever … with Ol’ Saint Nick …
It’s that time of the year when a longstanding Fair Haven tradition has taken hold — photos at the firehouse with Santa.
It’s another Fair Haven tradition you can always count on.
I remember …
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Scene Around: Baking Up Sweet Holidays with a Fair Haven Mom
Photos/Peggy Miller
There’s nothing sweeter than a traditional holiday bake-off between a longtime Fair Havenite and her daughter. Sugar coat that with a little dance, too, and call it a festive confection perfection. The sweetest.
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