As people go to the polls to vote in Rumson and Fair Haven today, there are some facts about the boroughs’ governing bodies and their function and history that may have eluded many.
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Focus: Halloween Haunts of the R-FH Area
Front lawn hauntings of the Halloween kind have long been a decorating tradition in the Rumson-Fair Haven area.
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Retro Gaggle of ’80s Kindergarten Ghouls
It’s elementary — the school and the Halloween spirit.
In this case, back in 1982, it was actually a Fair Haven kindergarten Halloween fest at Sportsman’s Field, across from Knollwood School.
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Retro Fair Haven School Halloween Sit-Out
Nothing like capturing the mood of the Halloween season with a snapshot back in time of little costumed goblins all in a row — on the Sickles School stoop in Fair Haven.
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Retro Joyous Fall for the Leaf Pile
Sometimes a kid just has to take the plunge and fall for it!
Plunging into a big pile of leaves was always a simple fall pleasure for kids. Untethered to phones and TVs, Fair Haven kids of the 1960s resorted to the great outdoors in a small town. Sometimes they took it to the streets with marathon games of dodgeball, one taking the traffic alert commander position with a “CAR!!” shout now and then and a clear-out of the ball court. Nevermore. There might be a helicopter parent police alert if kids did that nowadays. Ahem.
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Retro Cool CAT Stokes Campers
Photo/David Struve
Well, the iconic Stokes trip happened last week; and, by all accounts it was a trip soaked with fun … and rain.
The tradition has been altered over the years. Most recently, the trip’s time of year changed. It now happens in the fall when it used to happen in late spring. It also now takes seventh-, not sixth-graders, tripping in the woods for a week of hands-on outdoor education. And there are no RFH senior counselors called CATs along for the trips of more recent, well, decades.
Nonetheless, the longtime tradition is and always has been rife with tales of the trip.
This featured snapshot back into the woods in 1978 at Stokes focuses on a few RFH counselor guys (and a sixth grader) who seem to have happened upon some sort of sight or adventure. Lost boys? Perhaps.
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Retro Fair Haven Picture Day Class Action
We’re talking class action; and, it’s not about a lawsuit — more like suiting up for a class picture.
That’s what they did back in the early 1970s. Well, at least one in this shot suited up in the literal sense. Figuratively speaking, though, this Sickles School sixth grade shot of Gary Verwilt’s class encapsulates that picture day mindset of the past.
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In Memoriam: Former Fair Havenite, Frank Wrublewski, 102
Former Fair Haven resident, Frank John Wrublewski, more recently of Palm City, FL, passed away after a stroke on Tuesday, Sept. 5, at home with his children. He was 102.
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In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite, Colleen Winters, 73
Longtime Fair Havenite, Colleen Patricia Winters passed away on Sept. 5 at Jersey Shore University Medical Center following a brief illness. She was 73.
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Back to School & Walking the Rope
Our annual reprise of back-to-school memories and walking the rope in Fair Haven …
“But I don’t wanna walk on the rope next to her!” I cried from under my freshly-cut kindergarten bangs. “I wanna walk on the rope next to Pam!”
Pam was my neighbor. She was my best buddy.
It was 1965. It was the 60s. One thing’s for sure: Our Fair Haven kindergarten class was the last to have its first year of school at what was called the Youth Center, now the Fair Haven Police Station and Community Center on Fisk Street.
We kindergarteners were also the last to be tugged down the street on a rope, yes a rope, headed by an official-looking police-type lady.
Continue reading Back to School & Walking the RopeIn Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite, Flossy Nicol, 89
“Her passing leaves a void that can never be filled, but her legacy of love and strength will forever endure.” ~ family of Flossy Nicol
Longtime Fair Havenite, Flossy Nicol, passed away on Sept. 4. She was 89.
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Focus: A Fair Night 2023
Well, for the past eight days, every night has been a fair night in Fair Haven. The more than 100-year end-of-summer Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair tradition in the small town by the river never skips a year — except for pandemic times and one other war year in history.
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