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They were officers and gentlemen serving their small town as volunteer emergency responders. Yes, it’s that time. Reorganization time.
Oh, there are classic New Year’s Day celebrations to usher in the new line officers in the fire departments — fire company, fire police and first aid. There are new chiefs and officers. We’ll get to who they all are for 2023 in Fair Haven.
Continue reading Retro 70s Fair Haven Fire Department Officers’ Line-UpWinter, spring, summer or fall … you’ve got a friend, as the Carole King song goes. Your tried and true friend? Places that anchor us all in the Rumson-Fair Haven area.
Continue reading Focus: Scenes Through the Seasons of 2022
New Year cheers to good friends!
These RFH guys … If there’s something to celebrate, they’re commandeering the toast — and peppering it with a little mayhem. Or a lot.
Continue reading Retro RFH Dudes’ New Year Cheer
Sometimes it seems as if a river view is a window to heaven … on Earth.
And as the sunny late December view ushers in a new year, it offers clarity. The clarity of the beauty of home — where you can feel infinite peace emanating from a living Rumson landscape. A landscape that breathes a sigh of contentment. A landscape that beckons you at low tide into its rising tide of tranquility. The comfort of quiet solitude in its good company.
It’s always good company — the river, its inlets and marshland. It’s where all the gentlest elements meet for a nurturing hug and reflection. This time it’s the sun, the blue sky, traveled clouds mirroring in a small looking glass pool of water. The way it all looks back, casting the most golden of glows on wet sand that holds each mark of where many walks of life have been, gone and settled.
It’s a new year. Time to set out to leave more footprints, make your marks — marks of walking toward the satiety of that clear, peaceful view in your own back yard. Marks that stay. Marks emblazoned, emboldened by the sun. Marks in that sand that go out with the tide to wash up on another’s shore, leaving the grains of goodness that were once imprints.
Happy New Year.
Warmer days are ahead for the first week of 2023, albeit with a bit of dampness …
**Thanks to RFH alum Doug Borden for these spectacular river views!**
Clam down! Dig it! A new year is coming!
In so many puns, that’s what’s going on with at least one family of Rumsonites and Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School grads. They’ve been clamming down for some time now. But, the sun came out the other day and RFH Class of ’78 grad Doug Borden and daughter Devon, also an RFH grad … were at it again. This has become a family affair habit of the bivalve kind. This father-daughter duo hit the sand by the river and dug themselves up some more clams yesterday. There have been other Borden duo digs recently, too, involving the other kids.
No, they haven’t considered the profession, which can be quite lucrative, yet arduous, raking away in the sea with a high capsizing risk on a bad day. Still, their new pastime rakes in a lot of clams.
They’re sticking with the river banks. They family clam diggity diggers have done it before and, well, gotten quite clammy over the whole idea. Dig that. And they did. They just hit the sand and dig. Dinner. River bank to table.
No doubt, the scenery is great, but the bivalves are fresh and homegrown — perfect for the holiday palate. Nothing like dinner from the back yard, especially when it’s down by the river.
Dig that, clammy! Clam down on it!
Rumson-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) alumnus, David John Kondrup, passed away, surrounded by his loved ones, on Dec. 26. He was 67.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Rumson-Raised RFH Alum, David John Kondrup, 67
Well, we know full well that in the rare event auld acquaintance be forgot, there’s always a reminder of what was — and how unforgettable it is. This time the auld acquaintance is among a gaggle of girls who are all still friends from the RFH Class of ’83.
Continue reading Retro RFH 80s Girls Auld Ichabod’s Acquaintance
Where’s Frosty? Well, he and his family have apparently decided to take a stand, celebrate the holidays, bridge tend a bit and soak up the view of the Shrewsbury River.
Continue reading Scene Around: A Bridge to Frosty?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot? The words of the 18th century Scottish ballad gone New Year’s Eve classic really means, “Should we forget old friends?” Of course not.
Continue reading Retro RFH Guys’ Auld AcquaintanceAn investigation has been launched into a Wednesday morning bank robbery in Middletown, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Wednesday.
Continue reading Prosecutor: Middletown Bank Robbery Under Investigation
Reprise … just because ’tis the season … This one’s originally from Dec. 13, 2021.
Yes. ‘Tis the season. And in the true spirit of the season, we know there’s one on every Santa lap — that “scared o’ him” miserable child.
We asked and we got … a doozy in 2021, so we just have to show it again, for posterity. It’s a prime example of seasonal “Oh, holy … crap of an experience.” In this case, Santa joined in the misery while loving the company of poor little Bryson Winnie of Aberdeen. Now, that’s a new one — Santa getting in on the trauma reality show. It’s a classic, too.
Continue reading Oh, Holy … Crap, Santa!
The Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement is well underway. Here’s a photo gallery from a bit earlier in the fall and the latest update on construction directly from Monmouth County officials, including a travel advisory for Rumson-Fair Haven and Sea Bright area residents …
(Click on one of the photos in the above gallery to enlarge and scroll for an interesting close-up view of the activity and the original bridge.)
The following is bridge replacement activity, by area, for the week of Dec. 19. All work is scheduled for Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., weather permitting.
In Rumson and Sea Bright …
In Rumson …
On the Shrewsbury River …
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