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RFH Student-Athletes Sign On to Colleges with Letters of Intent

It’s official. They’ve signed. They’re committed.

Seventeen Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) student-athletes made their college choices official on Wednesday, May 7, by signing Letters of Intent, pledging to continue their athletic and academic careers in colleges.

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Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel, Construction Advisory

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. The precise construction that is scheduled is listed below. Shrewsbury River travel advisory information is also included. 

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Retro RFH Mathematical Teaching Moments

RFH math teachers of the 1970s
Photo/RFH Yearbook

It all adds up. Good teachers plus intriguing personalities equals motivated, successful students. And, no matter how you put the equation together at RFH, there was no zero involved when it came to high school math teachers.

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Scene Around: Celebrating a Rumson-Fair Haven Area Icon’s Family-Style 90 Years

An area icon turns 90 today. That’s 32,874 days. It’s 47,338,560 minutes (and counting). That’s a lot of time on this planet. And it’s been time spent with family — family at home and in the community. Call it a youth elixir. Family time.

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Retro RFH English Teacher Appreciation

RFH English teachers of the 1970s
Photo/RFH yearbook

What would Teacher Appreciation Day be without a little ode to those who unwittingly set a writer on her twisted path to write — about them?

They are the English teachers at RFH. Back in the 1970s, they comprised quite the crew of educators. They taught us how to communicate more effectively. They chided us for using improper grammar. They expected better when they knew we were capable of the best. They glommed onto the small details that mattered in stringing a better sentence together with the peskiness of a dangling participle.

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Retro RFH Science of Teaching

RFH science teachers of the 1970s
Photo/RFH Yearbook

A reprise from 2022, because it’s Teacher Appreciation Week and not enough people read it the first time …

Science! It was truly poetry in motion at RFH, just like the 1980s song by Thomas Dolby. And, no, no teacher blinded anyone with science at RFH, more like made the students see the subject — and more clearly.

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Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel, Construction Advisory

Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement activity is on its status quo construction hours schedule, from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with expanded work days through Sunday, May 11, weather permitting. The precise construction that is scheduled is listed below. Shrewsbury River travel advisory information is also included. 

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