Well, the week has begun with an awful lot of silence around Rumson and Fair Haven. The sounds of the Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair are missing.
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Fair Remembrance: Ode to Opening Night of The Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair
The bustle is hushed. The night remains still at the firehouse grounds. Trucks are in their place. There are no empty carnival rides, no tents, no fresh, sweet scents of cotton candy and fried fish wafting through the air. No one is cooking in the kitchen. All is quiet. Lights are out. A beacon in the mind’s eye casts shadows of decades before. The ghosts are all there, snuggled together on their grounds. They still came home. They are everywhere as we remember opening night of the Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair, which would have been this Friday BB, on a historic year without the fair ...
The night is still. A light is on. Trucks are out of the bays. Cartoony faces and ghosts in empty seats on unassembled carnival rides stare back in the dark. Someone’s cooking at the Fair Haven firehouse. It’s fair time.
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Simple Summer: Tubing on the Navesink
It’s a simple way to enjoy summer, especially in pandemic distancing times — tubing on a Thursday afternoon.
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Retro RFH Class of ‘73 Silver Reunion Posers
As RFH reunions go, there are always milestone reunion years, just like with wedding anniversaries. And RFHers tend to make those banner years quite festive. A good party is something for which RFHers are famed, after all. After the 10th, the next biggie is usually the 25th, not that there aren’t many in between. Can’t keep RFHers apart for more than five years.
Retro RFH Reunion Dancing
It’s half past RFH reunion time and the pandemic has kept classmates’ summertime gatherings at bay.
RFH reunions always involve close encounters, gab festing, food, drink, and everything but distancing. After all, that’s what reunions are for, right? Well, not this year.
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R-FH Area Weekly Snapshot: Looking Back & Ahead, Weather, Tides, COVID & Pics
When the rain clears and the sun shines, shadows are cast. They offer a perspective of what’s behind, ahead and sometimes the view from beneath the surface. So, that in mind, we take a look back at last week, what’s to come this week and a little peek from beneath the surface in news, features and photos from under the Fair Haven Dock.
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Fair Haven: September Oktoberfest-FH Day Done for 2020
Sometimes, no matter how much organizers try, there just isn’t a season for every community event — especially in mid-2020 COVID-19 pandemic times.
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Retro River Ratting II
Photo/Marc Edelman
A reprise, just because … the river is a time-honored hangout spot, great for what ails a kid or adult mid-pandemic, plenty of room to distance, and now with a possible threat of sharks. No murder hornets sighted yet … Remember the simpler times of close river encounters? The best of kids’ stuff …
It’s Friday, have you hung out with your River Rats this week?
It’s that longtime rat pack with which kids sail away the summer — River Rats.
Summers, since 1955, a group gathers at the end of Battin Road in Fair Haven to learn how to sail and bond. You’ve gotten a glimpse into those summer days down by the river with the good rats before.
This is yet another, more expansive shot.
It’s the Retro Pic of the Day circa 1970s; and it’s brought to us by RFH grad Marc Edelman.
Recognize anyone? Not in it? Rats!
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- Old News: Giving Thanks for a 1948 Playground, $1 Butts, $2.50 Dinner, Missing Spouses, a Rat War & Verga’s Midnight Bath
- Pre-Thanksgiving DWI Checkpoint Set
- In Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite, Peter ‘Pop’ Henderson, 90
- Retro RFH Thanksgiving Homecoming Touchdown
Simple Summer: Fishin’ for Sunny Dock Daze
The summer of 2020 has been anything but simple — pandemic, tropical storm rip, power outage, murder hornets. And then down came the rain …
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Retro Night Out on a Pandemic Year Night In
Fair Haven’s National Night Out 2020 turned into Night In. And it was a night in to be remembered — for nothing except the pandemic that showed no mercy and canceled another community event.
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RFH Recognized as a Digitally Literate ‘Common Sense’ School
Common Sense, the national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping students and families thrive in media and technology advances, has dubbed Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) a Common Sense school.
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Longtime Fair Havenite, Songbird Lillian Lauer: Still Hitting the High Notes at 90
Photos/courtesy of the Lauer family
Remember those days as a kid when you thought everyone over the age of 30 was ancient? That view from the pint-sized sprouters and adolescent awkward can offer both good and bad perspectives. Better these days, as a near senior (gulp), as it seems that those people we thought were ancient are, decades later, somehow ageless.
That’s the case with one Fair Haven mom and lead Church of the Nativity songstress: Lillian Lauer. The longtime striking blonde, French twist-coiffed Fair Havenite, who loved for decades to tend to her garden, children and lead soprano singing from the church mezzanine, turned 90 on Aug. 7. And, as the Jackson Browne song that was as popular as Lauer’s twist and song in the 70s goes, she’s “still the same … still aims high” in both song and youthful spirit.
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