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The sun has had a hard time peering out from the dank weather veil these days. So, daydreaming about a simpler summer time when a dive into the ocean in Sea Bright was all you needed comes a lot easier than that ball of fire and the imminent need to cool down.
Continue reading Retro RFH Guys’ Summer Dive
Despite the steady stream of rainy weather through last week and into this week, this week’s Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement activity remains status quo. Work on the bridge continues Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day, again, weather permitting, with a few new notes to roadway and sidewalk users. Note that the sidewalk across the bridge is fully open to pedestrians and bicyclists.
Monmouth County officials advise …
Continue reading Weekly Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory
It doesn’t have to be the longest day of the year to get the most out of the warmth of river time before the sun sets, calling it a day — a first summer day.
The day may be over, but the river time feeling is forever docked in the mind. The fair haven on the Navesink always calls. Rain never drowns the call. The lap. The lull. The gentle tide reaches out and tugs at our hearts to stay. And we do.
Any day is the longest day down by the river, because it’s an endless river walk in our Fair Haven.
Rain never washes away the footprint of time wrapped in home’s swaddling river tide.
— Photos/Elaine Van Develde for R-FH Retro exclusively
And there will be lots of rain this week, drenching the area, according to the National Weather Service. It continues through the weekend and into next week …
A missing teen from the Cape May area who was spotted in Eatontown on June 11 was found and went missing again early this week. Authorities are, again, asking for the public’s help in finding her.
Continue reading Prosecutor: Photo & Info Updated; Help Finding Missing Teen Still NeededThe fight to keep the ocean clean has reverted and intensified. Clean Ocean Action is rallying against what it has dubbed an “unprecedented massive industrial assault proposed to the ocean.”
Continue reading Clean Ocean Action: Fight Against ‘Massive Industrial Assault’ on Ocean Ensues
A reprise from Feb. 5, 2016 in honor of Juneteenth …
The Fair Haven Fisk AME Chapel is steeped in tradition — Fair Haven tradition and roots that many do not realize jut very deep into the community.
Many of the founding families of Fair Haven have roots that are deeply entrenched in the church. A lot of the names and faces are traceable back to the early days of the church, back in the mid-1800s.
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Fisk AME Chapel Folks
This week’s Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement activity remains status quo. It continues Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day, weather permitting, with a few new notes to roadway and sidewalk users.
Monmouth County officials advise …
Continue reading Weekly Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel AdvisoryOur annual tribute …
It’s Father’s Day weekend.
And, we at Rumson-Fair Haven Retrospect are of the mind that the actual day on Sunday was really about much more than flipping a burger and patting a good ol’ dad on the back.
Continue reading Ode to the Grand Daddies of the R-FH Area
School’s out in Rumson!
And while tradition dictates that Fair Haven’s eighth grade grads to the infamous walk down Third Street to much fanfare, Rumson students do what they call a “clap-out.” And it just happened very recently.
They’re leaving the hallowed halls of Forrestdale School and moving on to the next block at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School — most of the grads, anyway.
So, as they exit the school for the last time, the students do it to applause … and a bit of fanfare, like some drum beating. Some of the teachers also celebrated their last exit from the school. It’s anyone’s guess what was going on among students at this moment, but there are some amusing clues here.
Take a look at the photo gallery above, courtesy of the Rumson School District, for a glimpse into the milestone moment.
Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School’s (RFH’s) Christina Gauss has done it again.
The RFH Spanish teacher, advisor, mentor, avid community volunteer, 2020 RFH Educator of the Year and Monmouth County Teacher of the Year has been named a member of the 15th cohort of Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Society Grosvenor Teacher Fellows.
Continue reading RFH’s Christina Gauss: National Geographic Society Grosvenor Teacher Fellow
We took you back to 1974 and some Fair Haven eighth grade class tripping with popular teachers with the last Retro Pic(s) of the Day.
Continue reading Scene Around: Retired Fair Haven Teacher Trippin’
School’s out and graduation’s near — very near. And the heat is always on to seek out a good time among class friends. So, there’s nothing quite like a final class trip to — with class clowns, friends, foes and teachers. Yes, teachers — sun bathing and all.
This particular trip was taken in 1974 to a dude ranch somewhere with Fair Haven’s Knollwood School soon-to-be grads and teachers. Where? None of the old folks in the pictures can remember. Hey, some of us don’t even remember the trip.
Continue reading Retro Knollwood Grads’ Class Trippin’
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