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Local Life, Opinion

Retro Knollwood Cool Kids’ Hangout

The cool kids of Fair Haven’s Knollwood School in 1974
Photo/courtesy of Debra Giffin Schluter

Get out! That’s what most school kids are likely wishing to do these dank spring days. And get out with the “in” crowd was always the cool thing to do before school back in the 1970s in Fair Haven.

Picture that. A picture is worth a thousand awkwardly cool moments in the memory of a middle school kid.

To a Fair Haven eighth grader of the 1970s, there was nothing cooler than being asked to hang out, before the bell rang, on the side of Knollwood School by the bushes with the clique of the coolest kids.

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Obituaries

In Memoriam: Fair Havenite, RFH 2013 Grad, Brian Morgan Duddy Jr., 29

“He was a brilliant, sweet, sensitive boy who loved sailing, skiing, golf and spending time at our beach club.” ~ family of Brian Morgan Duddy Jr.

Fair Havenite Brian Morgan Duddy Jr. passed peacefully on Sunday, April 30, surrounded by his adoring mother, Kelley, and father, Brian. He was 29.

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Local Life

Focus: Riding with the River Tide

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Sometimes it’s just time to ride into the spring sun with the tide — down by the river, of course.

Now’s the time. When isn’t the time right, though? The bright light shows the way to the clarity of it all, though. The sun comes out, the water glistens and calls. The ride has begun. The ride into a tsunami of the simplest best of time-honored times at the Fair Haven Dock.

The dock may have changed over the years since Fair Haven’s existence, but the Navesink River it juts out to still plays the same part, ebbing and flowing with each ride down by its shores. Holding each ride with the times close. A piece of the dock etched indelibly.

The anchor is never lifted on the ride to river times. The moments stay. They will never leave. The sun is always there somewhere, casting its light on them. Always.

Take a look (click one photo to enlarge and scroll) and remember your time that stayed.

— Photos/Elaine Van Develde

There are some rainy days ahead, but the sun will return. Here’s the weather forecast from the National Weather Service …

Local Life

Scene Around: Boys of RFH Junior Prom Night

RFH junior boys of 2023 prom
Photo/Susan Culbert

There’s nothing quite like a dapper boys’ line-up on junior prom night.

Saturday night was the night for the stylin’ cool freeze frame of that classic pre-prom moment for Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) juniors. The moment? It was one taken at Rumson Country Club’s Riverhouse. In keeping with prom picture and celebratory precursors to the main event, different groups of friends, dates and even snap-happy, sentimental parents gather at different spots to be posers and get set to prom the night away.

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News

Weekly Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory

Photo/Nick Lenczyk

The Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement continues with some change in construction activity for this week, Monmouth County officials advise.

The 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. work schedule remains Monday through Friday, weather permitting. Anticipated activity on and in proximity to the bridge is as follows:

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Obituaries

In Memoriam: Lifetime Fair Havenite, Rumson High Grad, Volunteer, Jean Haviland Denise Rue, 90

Lifetime Fair Havenite, daughter and wife of two Fair Haven mayors, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and avid volunteer, Jean Haviland Denise Rue, passed away on Sunday, April 16. She was 90.

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Local Life

Focus: Branching Out with River Time Buds

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There’s nothing quite like branching out to a budding riverfront perspective — down by the Navesink at the Fair Haven Dock, of course.

Yes, spring has sprung. The buds are budding. And when it comes to seeing the river for the trees, the view is always the most flattering panoramic close-up of sunshine on an old friend.

It always smiles back and reaches out to hold with a tight hug. The buds on the trees branch out pulling you in to a new season, new day down by the river.

Happy budding river time 2023! (CLICK on one of the photos in the above gallery to enlarge and scroll. Enjoy!)

— Photos/Elaine Van Develde for R-FH Retro exclusively

Here’s what’s in store for the end-of-the-week into weekend weather forecast …