Cheers to the New Year and auld lang syne!
“Old long since” is what the phrase auld lang syne literally means. “Olden days” is more like it, though. Here’s to “old times.” That’s the gist.
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Tag Archives: Fair Haven
Scene Around: Gay 90s R-FH Area Moms
While 2021 culminated in a lot of loss coupled with a pandemic surge, there have been some stories of ageless triumph through the birth of the new year.
Those stories are of three Rumson-Fair Haven area moms who reveled in their 90s birthdays unscathed, embracing their new age baking, creating, celebrating and emulating one another’s secrets of how old is renewed — gold.
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Living in the R-FH Area Past: 2021’s Top Retro Pics of the Day
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again … Sometimes you just have to live a little … in the past.
That’s the purpose of R-FH Retro’s Retro Pic of the Day. It’s important to remember from whence we came, so to speak. Remembering our roots is an anchor. It offers sharp insight into who we are. Who we have become.
Like it or not, it’s a big part of us all. And most like it, as evidenced by the popularity of the Retro Pic of the Day. Renting that snippet of daily space as a transient in the hometown past has become a favorite pastime of sorts for area people.
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Remembering Rob Bruce; Fair Haven-Raised RFH ’77 Grad, Pop Culture Icon Found Dead
“We’re all kinda the same guy. Everyday hustling and digging through our warehouses and storage units full of trash and treasure. I guess it helped us realize the real treasures are the days we have with people we love … Our little Jersey circle is a little less colorful and crazy now.” ~ Justin Skyler Daniels, friend of Robert Bruce, on his Facebook page
The year 2021 ended with the sudden death of Fair-Haven raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Class of ’77 graduate Robert “Rob” Bruce, a more recent decades-long Red Bank resident known as the area’s pop culture icon.
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In Memoriam: Josephine D’Annunzio Mandrick, 94
Born on Jan. 7, 1927 in Union City, Josephine D’Annunzio Mandrick entered eternal life on Dec. 23, 2021 in Red Bank.
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Retro Fair Haven Slice of Farmland
Photo/courtesy of Pat Reed Wright
Oh, I remember when these here Fair Haven parts were all … farm land?
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In Memoriam: Fair Havenite Lucille Reifsnyder Herr, 97
Fair Havenite Lucille Reifsnyder Herr passed away peacefully on Dec. 14. She was 97.
Photo/family via John E. Day Funeral Home
“She was a caring wife, mother, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend. Among other things, she enjoyed her family, traveling, theatre, golf and
Loved ones of Lucille Herr in her obituary
socializing with friends.”
Lucille was born on Feb. 4, 1924 in Lebanon, PA. After high school, she studied at Rider College before marrying Edwin F. Herr Jr. and raising three sons, Edwin III, Christopher and Douglas.
Lucille is survived by: her three sons, five grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
A private ceremony will be held at a future date.
- Focus: A Fair Haven Veterans Day
- An R-FH Area Veterans’ Homage
- Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Construction Travel Alerts
- In Memoriam: Red Bank-Raised 47-Year Prown’s Employee, Former Longtime Little Silver Resident, Steven Ruzicka, 90
- Retro RFH Tower Player Techies
In Memoriam: Fair Havenite Patrick McDermott, 87
Fair Havenite Patrick “Paddy” Joseph McDermott, “beloved husband, father, pop-pop, brother, uncle and friend was called home early Monday,” Nov. 21. He was 87.
Paddy was surrounded by his family at the time of his death, as he was in life. It gave him a great sense of peace, because he knew where everyone was; and that was a requirement in his book.
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Focus: A Fall for River Time Sunscape
When the sun sops up the fall clouds so it can peer through for a little glimpse back to summer, it’s time for river time.
Rowing, strolling, sitting … any way is the best way to move forward and go back to that warm niche that always has a place for someone in its heart. The place where, no matter what, that sun always manages to peek through and shed light on all those little big things that matter most — one ray at a time.
Any way to move back to that light on those river times is the way to go. And they went. They always do. And they hold onto it for a rainy day.
The rainy days and chill are coming back. But there’s never a damper on Fair Haven river time.
— Elaine Van Develde
Take a look (CLICK on one photo above and scroll. Enjoy!). Here’s what’s coming in those rainy, colder days ahead, according to the National Weather Service …
A Little Retro Fair Haven Class
Have a little class — like this classic fifth grade group from what was Willow Street School back in the early 1970s.
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In Memoriam: Fair Havenite Arthur Mura, 92
Arthur J. Mura of Fair Haven, NJ, passed away peacefully on Friday, Nov. 5. He was 92.
Fair Haven Meeting Notes & Quotes
Monday’s Fair Haven Borough Council meeting was a workshop meeting.
In workshop meetings, things are what they sound like. The governing body “workshops” issues. They mull ideas and prospective solutions. We will say “mull” to go with the fall season, like spiced cider. And, just like that, things can get spicy at council meetings. But not on Monday. There was more humor going around on the dais.
Here are some nuggets of information gleaned from the meeting …
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