Simple Summer: Fishin’ for Some Crabby Dock Time

What a catch! It doesn’t get more simple or summery than crabbing and fishing on the Fair Haven Dock. It’s a time-honored tradition.

New restrictions? Not a 10-gallon cooler in sight. No mattresses. No fires. Nothing but a few fishermen and their bait, poles, traps and some good simple summer times down by the river. It’s how it’s always been on the dock on any given simple summer day to remember.

Take a look and remember your simple summer daze on the Fair Haven Dock …

— Photos by David Vilacoba

In Memoriam: Red Bank Fireman, Former Fair Haven Public Works Foreman, Chuck King Jr., 71

Little Silver resident, Red Bank fireman and former Fair Haven Department of Public Works foreman, Chuck King Jr., passed away on Aug. 10, at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank. He was 71.

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Cooking Up ’50s-Style Fun on Starvation Island

It’s all fun and island-hopping games until they have to start a fire.

Yes, there comes a time when summer Rumson island-hopping coolness sets in, parents rang the unheard dinner bell and a bunch of hungry, wayward, marooned kids try to cook that fish they caught and toast their own little buns.

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Prosecutor: Ex-State Trooper Pleads Guilty to Attempted Sexual Assault of 14-Year-Old

A former New Jersey State Police trooper has pleaded guilty to the attempted sexual assault of a child in the summer of 2024, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Tuesday.

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