News

Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Alert

Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement activity is scheduled, weather permitting, for shorter hours this week, with alerts about girder deliveries and traffic alternating.

The work will continue through Friday from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.. During work hours and beyond, Monmouth County officials advise …

Drivers should allow for extra travel time, due to girder deliveries and associated alternating traffic on the Rumson side. This means …

  • On Monday, bridge girder deliveries are expected in Rumson.
  • From Tuesday through Friday, there will be alternating traffic on Rumson Road due to curb, sidewalk and driveway apron installation.
  • Police will assist flaggers with traffic control.

An awareness of construction and delivery vehicles should be maintained. This means …

  • All roadway and sidewalk travelers should be aware of construction and delivery vehicles entering and exiting the work areas on both sides of Rumson Road in Rumson and on the southbound side of Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright.
  • Temporary delays are possible on any contractor work day due to movement of construction vehicles and equipment.

An awareness of work activity continuing in the Shrewsbury River should be maintained. This means …

  • Bridge replacement work activity continues on both sides of the Shrewsbury River south of the bridge.
  • Please note the channel closure dates have changed. See Recent News for an update on future changes to channel access.

— Photos/Doug Borden

— Featured photo/Elaine Van Develde

Police and Fire, Regional Interest

Friday Night Before Halloween DWI Checkpoint

Halloween falls on a Tuesday this year. That in mind, parties usually fall on the weekend before. And, the Monmouth County DWI Task Force, in conjunction with local police, will be conducting a DWI checkpoint starting tonight and running into early Saturday morning.

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Crime, Regional Interest

Prosecutor: Authorities Seek Public’s Help in Identifying 19-Year-Old’s Killer in 2016 Shooting Death

Authorities are asking that anyone with information regarding who may have been responsible for the 2016 shooting death of a Bradley Beach man to come forward, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Wednesday.

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Local Life

Focus: Throwing Sunny Shade on River Time

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There’s nothing like a crisp, bright fall day down by the river. It’s nothing to throw shade on, unless, of course, an umbrella or several are involved at an iconic spot along the Navesink.

That spot would be Barnacle Bill’s in Rumson. The shade? Well, when the fiery sunshine sears that fuzzy warmth into your soul, the umbrella that shades takes the glare away, calling the view into vivid focus. Call it falling for the same old, yet always new, scene. The river time scene.

River time. It’s time forever well-spent — sunny side always up under the umbrella of a day completed down by the river.

Take a look and feel the fall riverside sunshine in your soul. (Click on one pic to enlarge and scroll. Enjoy!)

The sun is set to shine bright for the rest of the week, bringing another little waft of locals’ summer. Here’s the Rumson-Fair Haven area forecast through the weekend from the National Weather Service …

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Opinion

Retro Benched RFH Halloween Paraders

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RFH Halloween of 1977 with a gaggle of girls
Photo/George Day

Well, it’s about that time for Halloween parades. In fact, Fair Haven’s was on Sunday. And, back in the day, RFH had its own high school Halloween parade.

Some bunny — or a few bunnies and other assorted suspicious characters — got dressed for the occasion, paraded themselves around campus and benched themselves for a spell, too.

The Halloween spirit is in the air. And these senior gaggle of girls embodied it. From controversial, yet timely and popular at the time, Playboy bunny costumes, to Raggedy Ann, a ghost, a cat, a gypsy and whatever else, they were parading and pleased with their choices.

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News

Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Alert

This week’s Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement construction activity will continue, weather permitting, from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. More girder deliveries and curb installation is planned for most of the week.

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Crime, Regional Interest

Prosecutor: Corrections Officer Pleads Guilty to Providing Inmate Boyfriend with Cell Phone

A Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office corrections police officer who worked at the Monmouth County Correctional Institution (MCCI) has pleaded guilty to providing a cell phone to an inmate, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Monday.  

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Local Life, Opinion

Reflection: Retro Halloween Parading

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The following opinion piece on Halloween through the generations in Fair Haven was originally published in 2015. It is reprised annually … 

Before the parade passes by, this kid from Fair Haven has some parading memories on which to reflect. Remember this scene?

It’s a longstanding tradition — the Fair Haven Halloween Parade.

I remember it well — from my first parade trek back in the late 1960s to the ’70s, 80s, 90s and now.

It all started at age 7 with a wish to be Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. I’ve noticed a few in more recent years and the green-eyed jealousy monster of a near senior has reared its head. But I digress … That little dress-up fantasy of the 60s of mine was foiled when my mother couldn’t get the gingham outfit together, my pigtails were not so poised for the silver screen look and my sister refused to crawl down Hance Road as Toto.

I guess it was bad enough that from the age of 3, she was forced by this pint-sized dominatrix 5-year-old Dorothy to crawl on a makeshift Funk and Wagnall’s encyclopedia Yellow Brick Road to Oz in the living room. The neighbors never quite got over it, either.

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