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Finally! The warmth of spring is in full bloom. And there’s nothing like parking yourself on a sunny spot on the grass and read a book or study — or something like that.
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A three-judge appellate court panel issued a decision last week upholding the 2014 murder conviction of a Middletown man accused of bludgeoning his wife with a frying pan and strangling her to death in the kitchen of their West Front Street home.
Continue reading Prosecutor: Appellate Court Upholds 2014 Middletown Murder Conviction
Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center Foundation has announced a $5 million donation from Joan and Robert Rechnitz, founders of the Two River Theater Company, to support the advancement of the robotic surgery program at the Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank.
She said she wanted to read something in tribute to her little girl on what would have been her 20th birthday. She said she was sure it would make her cry. Then something happened.
Continue reading Up & Away with Maddy’s Love, a Mother’s Mission
The sun may have taken a respite from spring on Sunday, but that and a little drizzle of rain didn’t stop Rumson kids from a little tradition — the annual egg hunt at Victory Park.
It was three years ago today that Fair Haven lost Patrolman Robert Henne. The loss of the friendly, compassionate cop was a devastating one.
We, at Rumson-Fair Haven Retrospect, again offer our profound condolences to his loving family and many colleagues and friends.
In memory of Robert, we are re-running our tribute to him that was originally published after his funeral and final call on March 31, 2015.
RIP, Robert. You are remembered …
Continue reading Remembering Fair Haven Police Patrolman Robert J. Henne

What’s a mother to do when the light of her life is extinguished? Dawn Tilton Massabni has been looking for an answer to that question for about a year now — since the day her dauntless, bright spirited 19-year-old daughter Maddy died unexpectedly from toxic shock syndrome on March 30, 2017 at 4:55 p.m.
That answer, or any other, has hardly come easily for the longtime Rumson mom and Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduate who grew up in the area and raised her family there. But now she thinks she’s found a way to keep the light that she and so many knew as Maddy shining bright.
Well, spring has arrived and so has another so-called nor’easter. At the very least, it’s not bird-chirping, flower-blooming spring weather in the Rumson-Fair Haven area.

Continue reading Emily Grossarth: RFH’s East Coast Surfing Star
Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) wrestling standout Nick Addison has earned a place in the school record books.
Continue reading Nick Addison: Story of an RFH Wrestling Champ
Well, it’s opening night of the RFH Tower Players’ production of The Secret Garden.
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