“It is with deep sorrow that we share the passing” of Maryann “Mare” McGloin on Jan.31. She was 65.
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In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite Tom Cusick, 99
Longtime Fair Havenite Thomas Cusick passed away peacefully at Riverview Medical Center on Jan. 31, “leaving behind an incredible legacy.” He was 99.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite Tom Cusick, 99In Memoriam: Former Fair Haven, Little Silver Resident, Model, Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Ann Gill
“It is with a heavy heart filled with amazing memories, we (family) share the sudden, but peaceful, passing of Elizabeth Ann Gill this past Friday evening at her residence in Tinton Falls.”
Continue reading In Memoriam: Former Fair Haven, Little Silver Resident, Model, Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Ann GillIn Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite, Joe Rafferty, 90
Longtime Fair Havenite, Joseph “Joe” Michael Rafferty died peacefully at home on Jan. 7. He was 90.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite, Joe Rafferty, 90Scene Around: Swearing In Fair Haven Fire Department’s Line Officers

There’s a new chief in town. Well, there’s a new chief, deputy chief, assistant chiefs, lieutenants, captains, president and vice president in the Fair Haven Fire Department’s fire company, first aid squad, auxiliary and water rescue.
Continue reading Scene Around: Swearing In Fair Haven Fire Department’s Line OfficersRetro RFHers’ Cheers to Auld Lang Syne

A reprise from December of 2023, just because as a new year comes, remembering lifelong friendships and continuing to celebrate them, even when untimely loss hits, is true auld lang syne … Cheers!
Auld Lang Syne. The lyrics of the song are all about friendship — forever friends raising a glass and toasting to the good times, adventures and misadventures they’ve shared.
Continue reading Retro RFHers’ Cheers to Auld Lang SyneRetro RFH Dudes’ New Year Cheer

New Year cheers to good friends!
These RFH guys … If there’s something to celebrate, they’re commandeering the toast — and peppering it with a little mayhem. Or a lot.
Continue reading Retro RFH Dudes’ New Year CheerIn Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite, Wade A. Davis, 83
Longtime Fair Havenite, Wade A. Davis, passed away on Dec. 29 after a long and courageous battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite, Wade A. Davis, 83In Memoriam: Former Fair Havenite, Liz McNally, 63
Former Fair Havenite, Elizabeth “Liz” McNally died peacefully in Red Bank on Dec. 10. She was 63.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Former Fair Havenite, Liz McNally, 63In Memoriam: Fair Haven Native, CBA Class of ’98 Grad, Charlie Perrine
Fair Haven native Charlie Perrine, more recently of Shrewsbury, passed away surrounded by his loving family, on Dec. 20, “after fighting a courageous battle with cancer.”
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Haven Native, CBA Class of ’98 Grad, Charlie PerrineRetro ‘Ho, No!’ Santa Time

Photo/Kathy Robbins
“Ho no you don’t!”
That’s what little Fair Havenite Rafer Roberts was likely thinking after he was plopped on scary Santa’s lap for a minute of terrifying quality time and pics in 1978.
Continue reading Retro ‘Ho, No!’ Santa TimeRemembering Fair Haven’s Garry Allers: A Lifetime of Relative Kindness Passed On







It’s all relative. You’ve heard it before. “He was like family.” Like. And sometimes people just say someone was family, no “like” involved. Family.
That’s usually because sometimes, DNA be damned, someone is no doubt family to someone, or many, in every way but the genetics. And sometimes, that’s just because a person’s actions in life scream a louder familial compassion and love than their genes — like a bear hug that squeezes all the good into us.
One girl called forever Fair Havenite Garry Allers her uncle. Uncle Garry was laid to rest yesterday. While on this Earth, he didn’t flinch at the relative reference from his adopted niece. It was the truth in every way that mattered, after all. Yes, it’s all relative.
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