Obituaries

In Memoriam: Longtime Sea Bright Lover, 60-Year Ship Ahoy Beach Club Member, Gloria Doughty, 93

Longtime Sea Bright lover and 60-year Ship Ahoy Beach Club member, Gloria Doughty, who raised her family in Middletown, passed away peacefully, after a very brief illness, at Christiana Hospital, DE, on Oct. 26. She was 93.

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Crime, Regional Interest

Prosecutor: Man Imprisoned for Violent Assault Gets Three More Years for Stalking Stemming from Home Invasion

An already imprisoned man is now facing three more years in prison in connection with a 2017 home invasion and stalking incidents in Holmdel, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Wednesday.

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Local Life

Retro RFH Preppie Hippie Halloweening

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RFH preppy hippies hangin' out in the 1970s Photo/George Day
RFH preppy hippies hangin’ out in the 1970s
Photo/George Day

There’s nothing like playing dress-up and drive-by for Halloween at RFH. 

In the 1970s, students really got ghostly and festive with it all. Costumes were creative. Though, given the era, it was hard to tell if a few were actually costumes or just the outfit of the day. Ah, but, of course these girls were “disguised” as those ’60s, not ’70s, hippies.

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Obituaries

In Memoriam: Red Bank-Raised RBC 2014 Grad, Connor Smith, 29

Red Bank-raised Red Bank Catholic High School (RBC) graduate, Connor Richard Smith, more recently of St. Paul, MI, passed away peacefully from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident on Oct. 18, surrounded by his loving family and closest friends. He was 29.

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Local Life

Retro RFH Witchy Women’s Halloween Ride

Witchy RFH women on Halloween of 1977 Bonnie Werner and Sue Brower Photo/George Day
Witchy RFH women on Halloween of 1977 Bonnie Werner and Sue Brower
Photo/George Day

A most necessary reprise …

They were headed every witch way on this Halloween in the late 1970s.

That would be Sue Brower and Bonnie Werner of the RFH Class of ’78.

So the double-dose Retro Pic(s) of the (George) Day feature them at their Halloween best.

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News

Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Channel Closure and Roadway Advisory

Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement activity remains on the usual work of 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., weather permitting, this week, with Shrewsbury River channel closure alerts in effect, Monmouth County officials announced.

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Local Life

Retro Motley Firemen’s Halloween Party Crew

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It’s spooky and kooky Halloween party season.

And there’s nothing quite like a costume party full of festive, fun fiends who take full advantage of the season to say the devil made them do it when it comes to tricks and the sometimes questionable treat of their disguises.

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Crime, Regional Interest

Prosecutor: Area 28-Year-Old Man Charged in Fatal Crash that Killed Bicyclist

An area man has been charged in connection with a collision in Holmdel that left a bicyclist dead this past August, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago announced on Thursday.

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