The Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair’s opening night is Friday. And, with the fair come games of chance spins and wins.
From the prize booth wheel spins to 50/50 and Super 50/50 tickets taking a tumble in a big bin, there are winners every night. The winnings? Everything from candy to tens of thousands of dollars.
Continue reading Retro Fair 50/50 Booth BudsLongtime Fair Havenite, Alfred John Schiavetti Jr., “passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on June 28, overlooking the beloved Navesink River after a courageous battle with cancer.”
His memorial gathering has been slated for Sept. 9.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite, Avid Volunteer, Al Schiavetti Jr.Longtime Fair Havenite, journalist, mom, Vatsala Muralidhara, passed away at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank on Thursday evening, Aug. 3. She was 86.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite, Vatsala Muralidhara, 86Longtime Fair Havenite and former Knollwood School teacher, Joan Marie Held Fitzgerald, passed away, surrounded by “her greatest treasure, her family,” on July 15. She was 81.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite & Former Knollwood Teacher, Joan Fitzgerald, 81
Everyone deserves a night out. And, sometimes, like every first Tuesday in August, that involves the police.
This year was no exception in Fair Haven. It’s called National Night Out.
Continue reading Scene Around: Fair Haven Cops on a ‘Night Out’
They’re all revved up with somewhere to go — a Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) 45th reunion.
Continue reading RFH Class of ’78: Revved Up for a 45th ReunionFair Haven-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Class of 1981 graduate Ken Bartos, more recently of Hammonton, passed away on July 27. He was 60.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Haven-Raised RFH Grad, Former ‘Lock, Stock’ Chef, Ken Bartos, 60Former longtime Fair Havenite, Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduate, volunteer, and Rumson Country Day School teacher, Margaret “Margy” White Hughes, passed away peacefully on July 23. She was 77.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Haven-Raised RFH Grad, Volunteer, RCDS Teacher, Margy White Hughes, 77
Call it a wash. Down came that rain and washed the murky, humid muck in the air away.
And like the song, it seems like “you can see forever more,” especially from the iconic shores of the Navesink down by Barnacle Bill’s. No matter how far a hometown Rumsonite or Fair Havenite roams, the riverfront always calls them back to hold them tight.
It’s never a fishing expedition. The line was cast long ago and the anchor never rusts. This one’s a diamond. Unbreakable, it glistens with magnetic light shining, calling from deep in the river’s sandy floor.
The precious anchor stone’s gleam reflects in that hometown kid’s eyes, offering the view no one else has. It’s from that river’s shores that, murk or not, that kid at heart can see more clearly every inch of beauty that’s always been there, yet still lies ahead. They look back while looking ahead to see those little big things that brought them there. Held them there.
Those things? They’re still holding … with soothing tightness.
Hold those thoughts and keep them … like a kid collecting shells down by the river.
Click on one photo in the above gallery to enlarge and scroll. Enjoy the view!
— Elaine Van Develde
The weather forecast …
Heatwave humidity and wildfire smoke has cleared. Here’s what’s in store with the weather in the Rumson-Fair Haven area through the weekend and into next week.
It’s summertime. And in the truest of carpe-the-summertime-diem spirits, there’s no simpler a summer pleasure than an impromptu reunion among Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) grads before the 45th reunion main event.
Continue reading Simple Summer: RFHers’ Pre-Reunion Reuniting
This week’s advisory for those traversing the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge construction area remains status quo, with the exception of a reduction in Friday work hours.
Continue reading Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory
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