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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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.
Continue reading Focus: A Fair Night 2023Retro Fair 50/50 Booth Buds

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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 BudsIn Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite, Avid Volunteer, Al Schiavetti Jr.
Longtime 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.In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite, Vatsala Muralidhara, 86
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, 86In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite & Former Knollwood Teacher, Joan Fitzgerald, 81
Longtime 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, 81Scene Around: Fair Haven Cops on a ‘Night Out’

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’RFH Class of ’78: Revved Up for a 45th Reunion
They’re all revved up with somewhere to go — a Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) 45th reunion.
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In Memoriam: Fair Haven-Raised RFH Grad, Former ‘Lock, Stock’ Chef, Ken Bartos, 60
Fair 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.
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