Crime, Regional Interest

Prosecutor: Couple Charged with Animal Cruelty in Connection with Death of Four Puppies

A couple is facing charges of animal cruelty in connection with the death of German shepherd puppies in their care died due to alleged neglect, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced on Tuesday.

Daniel McDonald, 25, and Tricia Jaccoma, 24, are charged with four counts of third-degree animal cruelty four puppies were found dead on a property in Howell where they were temporarily living.

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Local Life

Retro Fair Haven Day with Iconic Fair Havenites

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  • 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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Police and Fire, Rumson Police and Fire Files

Rumson Police Take Their Car Theft Message to the Streets

Frustrated with a years’ long problem looming over the area in surge spurts and the unheeding of advice regarding it, Rumson police have taken their message to the streets with lit signage: “Car thieves are back! Lock your cars!”

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Local Life

Retro Eighth Grade Class Tripping

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The scene at the Knollwood School Class of 1974 class trip to the dude ranch
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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Business Buzz, From the Meeting Room

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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News, Opinion

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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