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Senior artists from Rumson Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) did their high school swan song last month as their artwork was showcased and sold at The Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury.
Continue reading RFH Seniors’ Art Show Finale
There’s nothing quite like a sighting of a pretty famous (around these Rumson-Fair Haven parts, anyway) 86-year-old dad doing dad stuff for his daughter “the right way” — just like a dad.
Continue reading Scene Around: Iconic Dad Knows Best
This past weekend saw another opening of another Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Players show. But, for the first time in RFH history, it was a different kind of spring musical experience — the pandemic kind.
Continue reading Focus: Stars, Masks & RFH’s ‘Emma! A Pop Musical’
Curtain up and enter stage right!
With the masked pandemic time RFH Tower Players’ debut on Friday of its first-time outdoor show, it’s only right to pay tribute to the RFH stage and show time entrances gone by.
Continue reading Retro RFH Show Time Curtain Up!
It’s National Police Week.
With that, the Retro Pic of the Day honors the Rumson Police Department with a glimpse of its officers of the past, courtesy of a photo from the Rumson PD Facebook page.
Whatever year it was, it looks as though there were eight officers in the department then.
Our guess, considering the uniforms, that Perri Eli was chief at the time.
The photo features: Henry Kruse, James Wallace, David Kenney, Edmond Desmond, Perri Eli, John Connett, Seth Johnson and William Zerr.
Do you know who the juvenile officer was at the time? Ranks? Who was your favorite old time police officer from when you were growing up?
Have you thanked a police officer today?
— Elaine Van Develde
There’s another centenarian in Fair Haven known to give 100 percent to its community.
The Fair Haven Fire Department Auxiliary, formerly the Ladies’ Auxiliary, turned 100 years old on March 21, making the volunteer organization just nine years younger than Fair Haven itself.
Continue reading Fair Haven’s New Centenarian: The Fire Department’s Auxiliary
So what’s reminiscing about RFH writing skills honed without throwing typing in there? It’s all about words and getting them on paper, after all. Ding!
Continue reading Retro RFH Typing Business Buzz“Thanks to our generous community, The Performing Arts Society donated 33 dozen doughnuts to Lunch Break today!!”
RFH PAS … FB
Sweet! That’s what you could call the donation today from a Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Performing Arts Society (PAS) fundraiser of 33 dozen Krispy Kreme donuts to Red Bank food distribution center LunchBreak.
Continue reading Scene Around: RFH PAS’s Sweet Donation
Jonathan, is that you? Getting swooped by a seagull can be a bit Alfred Hitchcockish. You just never know that that bird’s eye view is capturing and processing in the moment. Or who the bird is that one — that Jonathan Livingston Seagull — trying to be a non-conformist.
Continue reading Nature Call Focus: Gull’s Eye View
Little League season in the Rumson-Fair Haven area is in full swing! You can almost hear the taunt from the field in the early 70s … “Hey, batter, batter …”
Continue reading Retro Cardinal Little League Hit
Whoopie! That’s just what the former owner of the iconic Sail Inn and Melody Corner (same place) in Sea Bright would say to this belly-up scene at his bar from the 1970s.
Continue reading Retro Belly-Up to an Iconic Sea Bright Bar
Call it a teaching moment. It was the moment that three retired iconic Fair Haven teachers who kept a close friendship going for years were reunited after a long COVID-19 quarantine time.
Continue reading Scene Around: Icons’ Teaching Moment
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