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Cheers to the spring sun, fun and RFH alum weekend warrior times!
Yes, there’s nothing quite like a toast to warmer times retro RFH-style! The spring sun is finally out, things are warming up to a summertime temperature and it’s time for a time honored party — or at least a partying spirit.
Post-Memorial Day week is what used to be a longtime tradition of Fair Haven sixth graders taking that trip to Stokes State Forrest. The time of the year has since been switched to fall. So, in honor of the original timing of this rite-of-passage trip to Stokes, we, again, invite you to take a trip back with us. Remember?
It’s that time of the year when Fair Haven schools tradition used to take hold and all good Knollwood sixth graders packed it in and went on their trip to Stokes State Forrest. The buses rolled out of town right after Memorial Day. It’s now been more than 50 years’ worth of Stokes adventuring. Wow.
Call it a ratty reprise ode to summertime …
Summers in the Rumson-Fair Haven area are rife with river-oriented activities that have become tradition.
River Rats’ sailing “camp” is no exception. OK, nobody was camping per se. It was more like a little club. Still is. In fact, it’s that time of the year when kids start signing up for summer River Rats fun. In fact, it’s that time — to sign up for the Rats season.
It’s been a sort of rite of living on the Navesink passage for decades — since 1955. Kids learn how to boat and do a lot of summer fun bonding in the process.
It’s been a Memorial Day of the traditional kind in the Rumson-Fair Haven area. The day was kicked off by parades in Rumson and Fair Haven and solemn services at Victory and Memorial parks, bringing people in the communities together to remember. Groups, standing shoulder-to-shoulder, honoring those who sacrificed their lives in service to the country, is the usual visual.
Continue reading Retro Rumson Eighth Graders’ Memorial Day
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement activity is on its status quo construction hours schedule, from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., from Tuesday through Friday, May 30, weather permitting, with full channel bridge openings in effect. The precise construction that is scheduled is listed below. Shrewsbury River tides and travel advisory information is also included.
Fair Haven resident Bob Aufderhar died suddenly, after a short illness, on May 19 at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank. He was 94.
It’s an ’80s pastel parade of RFH prom queens. There’s no other way to put it.
It’s that time. Time to get seriously crabby on the river.
Nothing fishy about it. It’s a rite a passage in Fair Haven. It has been since the dawn of time in the borough and surrounding area. Kids, even entire families, buckets and nets in hand, get down to the Navesink River and start netting the crabbiest of crabs.
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement activity is on its status quo construction hours schedule, from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., through Sunday, May 18, weather permitting, with no bridge openings for a period of time. The precise construction that is scheduled is listed below. Shrewsbury River travel advisory information is also included.
A classic reprise for a reason …
It’s National Police Week.
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Police Line-UpIt’s National Police Week. And it started on Monday with the end of a long ride for those who died in the Police Unity Tour 2025.
A reprise, originally posted in 2015, because a new RFH superintendent has reported to the office …
RFH has a new superintendent. He’s reported to the office and has walked those hallowed halls of good ol’ RFH.
And with thoughts of welcoming the new, the old and that teacher-administrator rapport comes to mind. Back in the day, or the ’70s at least, there were those administrators who weren’t just a Charlie Brown teacher’s voice cawing over the ol’ daydreaming student’s non-thought process. Some, or one in particular, are remembered as a real education innovators.
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