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There’s nothing like chillin’ among best RFH friends on a hot summer night. And there’s nothing like those friends doing the same thing nearly 50 years later.
Continue reading Retro RFHers’ TGIF Among BFFs 
A reprise in honor of the heat of summer, the warmest of times and freedom and fun times at the Fair Haven Dock among kid friends …
Summer fun in Fair Haven doesn’t get any simpler or more treasured than ending the day down by the Fair Haven Dock, sand between the toes, a few antics up the sleeve, a little seaweed in the shorts, and a crab or 20. Dock time has been a time-honored tradition for kids since, well, the dawn of time.
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Summer Dock Daze 
Reprise, because it’s a scorcher of a summer …
The scorching summer heat lately has made taking a flying leap into a fountain, or any body of water, a goal to which many aspire — and attain as the need to cool down beckons.
In fact, summer days, for RFHers, weren’t always all about beach clubbing it and keeping cool, fun times local.
Continue reading Retro Keepin’ it Cool with RFH Teens 
The summer heat is on and the historic Oceanic Bridge is up.
And there has been no movement of traffic between Rumson and Middletown over the bridge all day. Police in Rumson and Middletown couldn’t offer an estimate as to when the bridge would be passable again, but it’s a familiar issue to them.
Continue reading Heatwave: Oceanic Bridge Stuck Open 
It’s a case of summer island plopping. Yes, that’s right. Island plopping.
That would be the more accurate term when telling the pretty common story of some Fair Haven and Rumson kids taking their own eight-hour tour of the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers and ending up settling down for some adventure on Starvation Island in Rumson on pretty much any summer day.
Continue reading Retro Rumson Island Ploppers 
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement and associated roadway construction activity remains status quo this week from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through Friday, weather permitting.
Continue reading Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Summer Travel Advisory 
A reprise in honor of beating the heat of summer days with a little backyard pool dip, dressing for the occasion, and those first, best neighborhood friends …
Back in the summer of ’65 … the heat was on, and some pint-sized bathing beauties were set to walk the walk, if the suit and the bathing cap fit.
Continue reading Retro Neighborhood Bathing Beauty Besties 
Hey, Mr. Tamborine kid, play a song for us!
It wasn’t all about the guitar strumming, singing and parading on patriotic holidays only.
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Folk Singers’ Patriotic Beat 
In the name of the late Keith McHeffey, there are now two more grads of his Alma Mater added to the KDM Foundation’s scholarship list.
Continue reading Scene Around: RFHers for the KDM Foundation Scholarship Win 
Summer reprise originally posted in the summer of 2015, just because … What’s summer without some crazy RFH guys and a dive?
Swim, anyone? Waterless ballet? More like whatever works in a cement pond without the water. And this bunch of RFH guys made it work.
Continue reading Retro RFH Boys’ Summer Dive 
It was all about the fireworks with a morning 5K run on the Fourth of July in Fair Haven.
Continue reading Scene Around: A Firecracker of a July 4th Race 
A red-white-and-blue patriotic reprise, just because July 4th is tomorrow …
Peace out. Patriotism. Well-played play date, kids. They were not crooks and they were no Richard Nixon wannabes. But they were at least budding impersonators. Perhaps. Or just era-inspired posers.
Continue reading Retro Patriotic Peace Pals 
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