The search for a kayaker who went missing on the Navesink River in Fair Haven on Friday morning ended with the recovery of a 78-year-old man’s body that evening, Police Chief Joseph McGovern said in a released statement on Saturday morning.
Continue reading Fair Haven: Missing Kayker’s Body RecoveredRetro ‘Oliver!’ Show Time at The Barn Theater
“Consider yourself at home. Consider yourself one of the family. We’ve taken to you so strong …”
The line in the song from Oliver! captures the tenor of the actors’ bond in community theater. And it couldn’t be better encapsulated than in a photo of the cast of Oliver at the iconic Barn Theater in Rumson in 1972.
Continue reading Retro ‘Oliver!’ Show Time at The Barn TheaterIn Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite Paul Fuller Timolat, 74
Longtime Rumsonite Paul Fuller Timolat died peacefully at home on March 23. He was 74.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite Paul Fuller Timolat, 74Prosecutor: 20-Year-Old Arrested on Attempted Murder Charges in Shooting
A 20-year-old man has been arrested and charged for his role in a shooting incident in Keansburg, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced.
Continue reading Prosecutor: 20-Year-Old Arrested on Attempted Murder Charges in ShootingRetro Look At RFH’s KDM Fun Runners
This was the year without a KDM Fun Run.
Continue reading Retro Look At RFH’s KDM Fun RunnersMark F. Hughes Jr.: Legacy of a Rumson Dad
Memories. Moments. They’re what live on after we’re gone — what takes on a life of its own, indelibly etched in the minds of future generations. Legacy. There are so very many of those moments, those memories that many could call to mind as they put on their best bowtie and tip their hat to all that comprise the legacy left by longtime Rumsonite Mark F. Hughes Jr..
The husband, dad, grandfather, lawyer and rarest of gems among gentleman died on March 10, just four days shy of his 90th birthday. He and his wife, Marie H. “Mimi” Hughes, a longtime Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) English teacher, lived in Rumson for more than 55 years. They raised their four children there, in their home right across the street from the high school. They welcomed many into the Hughes home, like family, with open hearts and a voracious interest in the passions of all they met and cared to know better.
Anyone who has crossed the Hughes home threshold or been on stage with one or many has a story to tell. One of patriarch Mark, always the gentile Mr. Hughes to me, stands out in my mind. It tells his legacy tale in a mind’s snapshot. It’s a little lost-and-found snippet of a dad and grandfather steeped in a moment that had become tradition — a generational one to be carried on for lifetimes.
In my mind’s eye, a locked frame-freeze cache, it remains …
“Somehow, we’ve lost Dad,” said a content, grinning Paul Hughes, Mark’s son and my longtime friend, at closing day of an RFH show. Decades before, it was we who were at the RFH auditorium, mingling, crying over the ending, collecting accolades and bouquets. “He got caught up chatting with people and he’s still at the high school somewhere. Somehow, he got left behind. Gotta go find him.”
Continue reading Mark F. Hughes Jr.: Legacy of a Rumson Dadin Memoriam: Former Area Teacher, Harriet ‘Nana’ Luckenbill, 96
Former area teacher and band “mom” Harriet Ruth Luckenbill, known to many as “Nana,” passed away peacefully on Friday, March 19 at the Chelsea Assisted Living Home. She was 96.
Continue reading in Memoriam: Former Area Teacher, Harriet ‘Nana’ Luckenbill, 96Focus: Bloomin’ Fair Haven Spring
Spring is officially in the air and budding up all over in Fair Haven — from home to the Navesink riverfront and in between.
Take a look at some of the scenery. (And click to enlarge and scroll!) Enjoy! Ahhhhhhh …
Retro RFH Girls’ Hats On & Cheers Moment
Hats on to old RFH friends!
Continue reading Retro RFH Girls’ Hats On & Cheers MomentIn Memoriam: Former Rumsonite, Shrewsbury Resident Don White
Former Rumsonite Donald J. White, most recently of Shrewsbury, passed away peacefully at home on March 18.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Former Rumsonite, Shrewsbury Resident Don WhiteProsecutor: Schools Learning Disabilities Consultant Facing Child Porn Charges
On the heels of a cyber tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a Hazlet man has been arrested and is facing child pornography charges, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni announced.
Continue reading Prosecutor: Schools Learning Disabilities Consultant Facing Child Porn ChargesProsecutor: Area Man Facing Child Porn Charges
After a two-month investigation stemming from a social media network tip, an Aberdeen man is now facing child pornography charges, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said on Thursday.
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