After a three-month-long daily pandemic story time on film, Fair Haven police officers are taking their final bow and exiting stage left from their brief career in pictures.
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Retro RFH ‘Pomp & Circumstance’ Street Walk
Photo/courtesy of Nancy Welchel
The last time capped and gowned RFH grads were lining the street was more than four decades ago when the Class of ’78 graduated on the front lawn of the high school.
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Scene Around: Butler’s & Umberto’s; a Conscious Iconic Coupling
Just in case you’re having a hankering for a bite from an iconic eatery with a side of icon to serve it up, the folks at Butler’s in Rumson say that this very thing is on the menu now.
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A COVID Era RFH Class of 2020 Graduation
The year 2020 has brought a Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduation of a different kind — the COVID-19 pandemic kind.
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Retro Fair Haven Day with Iconic Fair Havenites
George Giffin at the first Fair Haven Day Photo/Elaine Van Develde 
Pat Topfer at the first Fair Haven Day Photo/Elaine Van Develde 
Fair Haven Day 2015 with lifetime friends
Photo/Elaine Van Develde
Saturday was a tough day for Fair Havenites longing to keep tradition going, but flogged by a pandemic. It would have been the eighth actual Fair Haven Day on Saturday. The day that started it the annual Fair Haven Day tradition was the Fair Haven Centennial Celebration in 2012.
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Outdoor Dining Returns to R-FH Area; The COVID-19 Rules & Governor’s Update
A sunny Monday marked a COVID-19 era milestone in New Jersey with the opening of outdoor dining as Gov. Phil Murphy remained cautiously optimistic about the second-stage restart of the economy amidst a pandemic.
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Beaching it on Sandy Hook: The COVID Era Update
The maximum capacity has been reduced. Access has been free. But, this weekend, as New Jersey COVID-19 restrictions ease in the second phase of reopening, some of Gateway National Recreation Area’s Sandy Hook beaches will open for swimming and will have lifeguards as of Saturday.
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Retro Eighth Grade Class Tripping
Photos/Jeanne Murphy Wnorowski
A reprise Retro Pic(s) of the Day from the Knollwood School Class of ’74 to the Class of 2020 …
There’s nothing quite like a final class trip — with class clowns, friends, foes and teachers. Yes, teachers. It was a tradition for Fair Haven schools back in the 1970s. And we’re not talking Stokes.
Of course, that wouldn’t be the last for Knollwood schoolers. We’re talking a final group trip. The last leisurely day trip disguised as a class trip. They had those back then.
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. We know there were horses, perhaps some riding and some swimming. And, apparently, there was lots of lounging and sunning. Hmmmmm …
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Fair Haven: Council Approves Phase 2 COVID Reopening Measures to Assist Local Businesses
In a move to support local businesses in the second-stage reopening of New Jersey amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fair Haven Borough Council at its Monday night meeting unanimously passed three resolutions temporarily amending ordinances and lifting associated permit fees.
The three resolutions involve restaurant/eatery outdoor dining, exercise and fitness and sidewalk business function.
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Scene Around: Sunrise on the Shrewsbury River; A Covid-19 Era Dawn
Photos /John Kinsey
Call it a dawn after the COVID-19 storm. It looked that way at sunrise on the Shrewsbury River on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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A Covid-19 Era Break in Tradition: Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair Cancelled
The historic, unprecedented news came on Tuesday night. For the third rare time in more than a century, the Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair 2020 has been cancelled.
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A Fair Haven-Raised Man’s George Floyd Protest Perspective
A Fair Haven-raised man on Friday walked with his son in peaceful protest of the knee-to-throat death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis, MN police officer Derek Chauvin, police brutality and injustice in the black community — a walk calling for unity.
“Unity, all ages, all races,” said that man, Skip Hawkins. “I’m so proud of these kids today.”
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