A little bit of sun shone through overcast skies when a couple of Fair Haven River Rats were reunited as youth sailors sailed through fair winds and choppy waters recently to participate in the longtime borough maritime tradition, the Mayor’s Cup.
Fair Haven-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH)_ graduate, Ellen Golembeski Davis, more recently of the Belford section of Middletown, passed away peacefully on June 23, surrounded by her family. She was 59.
Familiar face. Familiar place. Sometimes that familiar face is an anchor to a place many call home. Call it a heartstring tug-and-hold.
Fair Haven-raised Rumson Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduate, Bill Dawson McNiskin, more recently of Jerome, Idaho, passed away peacefully with family members by his side on July 18. He was 76.
It’s no longer 1980. But some RFH besties really can’t tell the difference nearly five decades makes, anyway.
Heigh-Hoh! It’s off to scout camp they went …
Back in the 1970s, that is. These days, it’s half past camping time for the scouts in Fair Haven and beyond.
Former longtime Fair Havenite and Little Silver resident, Marilyn Bernice Siegler, passed away on Friday, July 10. She was 91.
A reprise of a real classic because it’s summertime and that means it’s island cruising time in the Rumson-Fair Haven area …
It’s a case of summer island plopping. Yes, that’s right. Island plopping.
That would be the more accurate term when telling the pretty common story of some Fair Haven and Rumson kids taking their own eight-hour tour of the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers and ending up settling down for some adventure on Starvation Island in Rumson on pretty much any summer day.
Hey, Mr. Tamborine kid, play a song for us!
It wasn’t all about the guitar strumming, singing and parading on patriotic holidays only.
Well, after many America 250 celebrations, the ode to the U.S.A. and its birth will culminate in a sparkly kaboom for its gala birthday.
A reprise in honor of beating the impending heatwave of summer days with a little backyard pool dip, dressing for the occasion, and those first, best neighborhood friends …
Back in the summer of ’65 … the heat was on, and some pint-sized bathing beauties were set to walk the walk, if the suit and the bathing cap fit.
Longtime Fair Haven resident, beloved mother, grandmother and friend, Ingrid Karin Marxen, “left us peacefully surrounded by the love of her family.” She was 85.
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