Sometimes getting benched is a good thing, especially when it’s on the Fair Haven Dock.
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In Memoriam: Fair Havenite, Artist, Bonnie McKee Tortora, 83
“Bonnie’s greatest assets were her always positive attitude, dedication to the personal growth of others, her smile, good humor and a true love of all creation, from the birds to the troubled souls she helped heal throughout her life. She will be missed by those who knew her. Her legacy resides in all those who have crossed her path.” ~ family of Bonnie McKee Tortora
Fair Havenite and artist Bonnie McKee Tortora passed away. She was 83.
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Retro Knollwood Cool Kids’ Hangout
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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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.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Havenite, RFH 2013 Grad, Brian Morgan Duddy Jr., 29In Memoriam: Former Rumsonite & Fair Havenite, Peter Ricker, 78
Former Rumsonite and Fair Havenite, Peter Evans Ricker, more recently of Red Bank, passed away peacefully in Red Bank on April 25. He was 78.
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Retro RFH Date Night
Photo/courtesy of David Marx
Another Saturday night and he’s got his buddies. And some sunshine. That’s how the RFH ball, or prom, or just plain dressed-up night or day out rolled back in the 1970s.
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In Memoriam: Fair Havenite Brad Smith, 58
Fair Havenite Bradley Charles Smith passed away peacefully at his home on April 25. He was 58.
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Focus: Riding with the River Tide
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 …
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Scene Around: Boys of RFH Junior Prom Night
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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Weekly Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory
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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In Memoriam: Former Longtime Fair Havenite, Irene Miller, 99
Longtime Fair Havenite, artist, mom and wife of iconic Esso/Exxon station owner, Ray Miller, Irene G. Miller, more recently of Oceanport, passed away peacefully on April 17. She was 99.
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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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