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Focus: Fall for a River Anchor of Warmth

Whatever anchors your heart and floats your boat — like a crisp, sun-kissed fall day down by the river in Fair Haven.

Doesn’t matter if the boat floats. The heart fits. And it’s always anchored at the river for the soul of a Rumson-Fair Haven area kid. No matter what, when the sun’s rays warm the chill in the fall air, it’s always a reminder of what berths and soothes while cradling the heart in the warm embrace of a lapping tide down by the river.

It’s a toasty harbor, whether or not the sails are set. The boat, the heart, knows where home is — and it snuggles in, as the cold disappears with a memory and a dream of what there is “no place like.”

The sun is due to cast its rays this week, shining on the best of pre-winter moments …

Here’s the weather forecast for this week, courtesy of the National Weather Service:

Fair Haven Elections: A Chat with Incumbent Borough Council Candidate Meg Chrisner-Keefe, Democrat

Fair Haven’s race to fill two three-year Borough Council seats up for grabs pits incumbent candidates, Democrats Mike McCue and Meghan (Meg) Chrisner-Keefe, native Fair Havenites, against newcomers, Republicans Kristen Hoey and Andrew LaBarbera.

Here is R-FH Retro’s chat with incumbent candidate Meg Chrisner-Keefe …

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Fair Haven Elections: A Chat with Incumbent Borough Council Candidate Mike McCue, Democrat

Fair Haven’s race to fill two three-year Borough Council seats up for grabs pits incumbent candidates, Democrats Mike McCue and Meghan Chrisner-Keefe, native Fair Havenites, against newcomers, Republicans Kristen Hoey and Andrew LaBarbera.

Here is R-FH Retro’s chat with incumbent candidate Mike McCue …

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Fair Haven Elections: A Chat with Mayoral Candidate Chris Rodriguez, Democrat

The mayoral race in Fair Haven pits two incumbents against one another: Republican Mayor Josh Halpern, who is running for his first full term after filling the unexpired term of former Mayor Ben Lucarelli; and, present Council President Chris Rodriguez, a Democrat who has served on the Fair Haven Borough Council since 2017 and is currently in the second year of his second full term.

Rodriguez’s first run for a council seat was in 2016. He lost that bid for election, but ended up serving in 2017 to fill the unexpired term of Aimee Humprheys who had resigned due to a move. He ran for his first full term in November of 2017 and won a full term, starting in 2018. He ran for a second term in 2020 and won. In all, he has served on the governing body for six years.

Here is R-FH Retro’s chat with Chris Rodriguez, who is vying for a first four-year term as mayor of Fair Haven …

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Focus: Halloween Decoration Drive-By

Halloween is in the air — and on lawns — in the Rumson-Fair Haven area.

All you have to do is take a drive to get into the spirit — or crash into a few out of amazement, shock or fright. Do try this at home. Just leave the crashing part out and take in the sights of the creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky and altogether ooky decorations around the towns, as the Addams Family title song says.

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