With full plates of COVID-19 stress, area eateries’ are approaching the crisis with a plates-half-full and cups of comfort running over mentality. NJ Gov. Phil Murphy’s stay-at-home edict has prompted the closed for eat-in area delis, markets and restaurants to heap a good portion of help onto that stressed dinnerware — at a safe distance.
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Week’s Start: Area Covid-19 Update
The COVID-19 message for New Jerseyans from their governor is an emphatic, simple one — Stay home!
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Retro RFH Troops Rallying
Photo/George Day
Sometimes it’s just time to call in the troops. For a break. For a laugh. For a reminder of some vigilant banding together laced with fun. Times are tough right now with COVID-19 and its implications, social distancing, virtual school, stress of the unknown and known and fear … growing and waning.
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A Restricted R-FH Area St. Patrick’s Day Feast 2020
With the edict from NJ Gov. Phil Murphy in full swing officially today, St. Patrick’s Day, Rumson-Fair Haven area eateries are also in full isolated celebration mode. They’re offering delivery and curbside pick-up for St. Paddy’s Day and to ease the stress of daily life in this new normal.
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FOCUS: It’s Elementary; Fair Haven ‘Aladdin Kids’
They broke a leg and got their luck. It wasn’t curtains for curtain time through final bow on the Knollwood School stage last week for Fair Haven’s fourth and fifth graders’ production of Aladdin Kids.
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Retro RFH Girls Basketball Slam Dunk
Photo/RFH Yearbook, courtesy of Nerphrita Norris
The RFH Girls Basketball team culminated its season as top seed in NJSIAA Central Jersey, Group II. And while the team lost to second-seeded Manasquan recently, the girls team has always been considered champion material.
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RFH Fills ‘Empty Bowls’ for Sixth Year
Call it Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School’s (RFH) way of feeding its community with awareness of the struggle to end hunger and charity. The sixth annual RFH Empty Bowls fundraiser benefitting Fulfill (formerly FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties) has been deemed a success, having brought in $9,350 for the March 5 event via collections, online donations and a substantial grant.
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Focus: Sunshine & Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parading
Everyone said it. Sunday was a great day for a parade. And so the marchers marched under sunny skies in the Eighth Annual Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Take a look at some of the sights and folks of the day … (And don’t forget to click in the lower gallery to enlarge and scroll!)
Photos/Sue Hill-Spakowski and Jenny Costello for R-FH Retro
- Retro River Cruise into Sunny Daze
- Prosecutor: Former Cop Gets 17 Years for 2021 Vehicular Homicide, DUI
- In Memoriam: Fair Haven-Raised RFH ’72 Grad, Former Policeman, Fireman, Mike Raleigh, 72
- In Memoriam: Red Bank Resident Mary Zemann, 69
- Retro Rumson Police Line-Up
In Tune: RFH Tri-District Music Festival
There was a lot of night music played recently at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) as the 15-year tradition of the annual Tri-District Music Festival set the stage to showcase Knollwood, Forrestdale and RFH musicians.
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Scene Around: Rumson Dog Daze of Spring
Photo/Sue Hill-Spakowski
As everyone preps to spring forward in time, Daylight Saving, that is, it was a dog day afternoon of sunshine on the beach for many, yesterday and today.
Rumson dog Nancy (right) took a romp on the beach at Sandy Hook with Winter (left), her dog friend. In the ironic little play date pairing, the two did a little digging and imprinting and found one another’s shadow.
Nancy, the four-legged child of Rumsonite Sue Hill-Spakowski, is quite the poser. She has been seen around the towns making some keen nature observations, having tea and cavorting.
According to Nancy, spring is definitely in the air and in her step. And she’s right.
Predictions for the rest of the week and weekend, according to the National Weather Service, are that, despite a little rainfall Friday after 2 p.m. and a possibility of some snow mixing with it overnight, the outlook for the weekend is a sunny one with temperatures reaching a high of about 53 degrees on Sunday.
Forget the groundhog. Nancy knows all. Where shall we see Rumson dog Nancy next?
See something fun or interesting? Take a snapshot. Send it to us at evd@rfhretro.com and we’ll include it in our Scene Around feature for the area. Send photos with proper credit only. Focus and find the good little things that count in your community.
- Retro River Cruise into Sunny Daze
- Prosecutor: Former Cop Gets 17 Years for 2021 Vehicular Homicide, DUI
- In Memoriam: Fair Haven-Raised RFH ’72 Grad, Former Policeman, Fireman, Mike Raleigh, 72
- In Memoriam: Red Bank Resident Mary Zemann, 69
- Retro Rumson Police Line-Up
Focus: Dress Rehearsing RFH’s ‘Footloose’
Photos/RFH PAS
It’s that time — dress rehearsal time for the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School’s (RFH) annual musical theater production. This year it’s Footloose. And as tech week winds down and things are fine-tuned, the cast settles into dress rehearsals, with that final dress rehearsal set for tonight.
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Scene Around: A Teacher, A Test & A 90th Birthday
Photo/Kristie Kelty
Remember when you were a kid and you thought that your probably 40-year-old teacher was ancient? It’s a pretty common notion for young ones. Then they reach their 40s and wonder what the heck they were thinking.
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