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Scene Around: Rumson Cops Dispatch Teaching Moment
Calling all potential police dispatchers. That’s a 10-4 in Rumson. And a couple of officers schooled some vocational school students on the need and the criteria today.
Retro RFH English Teacher Appreciation
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
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.
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.
Retro RFH Baseball Guys & Ghouls
Forget “Play ball!” It’s more like “Where’s the ball?
Aaaaand swing! Call it “playing the field incognito” — or something.
Yes, we’ve explored old times, uniforms and players on the RFH baseball field and in the dugout.
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Retro RFH Boys’ Jump for Home Plate
Photo/George Day
Play ball!
That’s just what these RFH boys of the 1970s did, and with frequency. There was no major organization or uniforms involved in their free time ball games. It was just a few RFH guys, a ball, some mitts, bats, topsiders and Adidas instead of cleats, some groovin’ 70s clothes and a lot of fun.
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Construction, Travel Advisory
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement construction work is planned for a bit expanded schedule this week, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Saturday, May 3, weather permitting.
Scene Around: Clamming Up Among RFH Buds
Clam diggity! Call it mollusk mayhem. So, three RFH guys go clamming in Rumson …
Retro Little League Home Run
Photo/Peter Mauger
In thinking about the game these days — baseball game, that is — it’s only fitting that we take a gander back at little league in Fair Haven back in the late 60s.
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement construction activity remains status quo with some new alerts and construction work scheduled from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for through Saturday this week, weather permitting.
In Memoriam: Former Longtime Fair Havenite, RFH Grad, Noted Area Chef, Tommy Ekleberry, 73
Former longtime Fair Havenite and Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduate and well-known area chef, Thomas “Tommy” Edward Ekleberry, passed away on April 11. He was 73.
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