Local Life

Retro RFH Boys of Cool Lounge Daze

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The RFH boys of the Class of ’78 do some senior lounging and backgammon playing
Photo/George Day

When the stinging wintry chill still pierces the air and rainy, dank days continue in the week’s forecast, the time is right for a Retro Pic of the Day reprise classic to take you back to Senior Commons lounging days with a little backgammon on the side … or something.

What’s an RFH student to do when the studying mood hasn’t struck and the weather stinks? Hang out in the Senior Commons and play backgammon, of course. Or something like that.

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Crime, Regional Interest

Prosecutor: 22-Year-Old Area Man Pleads Guilty to 2025 Murder

An area 22-year-old man has pleaded guilty to an aggravated manslaughter charge stemming from a fatal 2025 stabbing, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Wednesday.

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Obituaries

In Memoriam: Rumson-Raised Longtime Fair Havenite, RFH Grad, Pauline Sorrentino Smith, 85

Rumson-raised longtime Fair Havenite and Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduate, Pauline Ann Sorrentino Smith, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Feb. 25. She was 85.

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Local Life

Retro RFH Boys’ Wintry TGIF Toast

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RFH guys spread winter cheer circa 1970s
Photo/courtesy of George Day

Raise your plastic cups and party on! It’s time for a little chill and retro toast to the impending weekend of breaking out of all the snow and taking the snap out of the cold snap with the warmth of some RFH guys of the late ’70s and early ’80s.

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Local Life

Retro RFH Snow Day Hill Thrill

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Snow day fun for RFHers in the 1970s. Photo/George Day
Snow day fun for RFHers in the 1970s.
Photo/George Day

Snowy days — or, rather, snow avalanche of late — bring back memories of winters past and how RFHers of yesteryear found some simple fun pretty fast when the school bell didn’t ring … or it did, but there was an escape to a thrill of a hill.

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Local Life, Opinion

A Birthday Wish: Going Back Home with Mom

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  • Sally Van Develde at the Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair in 1969.
  • Sally Van Develde and Mary Farley

Our annual reprise honoring the inspiration for R-FH Retro — my mom, Sally Van Develde — on what would have been her 103rd birthday. A birthday wish … Happy Heavenly Birthday, Mom. You remain in the hearts of so many … Besides, I won’t let them forget.

“If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with! Is that right?” ~ Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz

For the love of home and a Fair Haven mom … that’s right.

Sometimes a birthday without her is about lighting the candles, making the wish, sustaining the simple legacy of going home, staying home with my mom, Sally Van Develde.

Today would have been her 102nd birthday. If she had lived to blow out all those candles on her cake, I wondered what she would have done. What her wish would have been.

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Crime, Regional Interest

Prosecutor: Area Teacher/Coach Gets 51/2 Years for Sexual Assault of Student

A 36-year-old Middletown High School North teacher and girls’ basketball coach has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in state prison for engaging in a sexual relationship with one of his students, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Tuesday.

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