Longtime Fair Havenite, Paul Pritchard, passed away peacefully at his Fair Haven home on July 13, surrounded by family. He was 89.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite, RFH’s First Hockey Coach, Paul Pritchard, 89Tag Archives: Fair Haven
Retro Fair Haven Gals’ Fair Show Boating
The heat is on and the countdown has already begun to the Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair.
And, back in the day, the 1960s day, the fire department, rather than raffling off a car, SUV or a big chunk of cash (as in Super 50/50), decided to make a boat the prized prize of the fair. And they advertised that with the help of some fire department-affiliated bathing beauties.
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Gals’ Fair Show BoatingRumson-Sea Bright Bridge Summer Travel Advisory
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement and associated roadway construction activity remains status quo this week from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through Friday, weather permitting.
Continue reading Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Summer Travel AdvisoryRetro RFHers’ TGIF Among BFFs
There’s nothing like chillin’ among best RFH friends on a hot summer night. And there’s nothing like those friends doing the same thing nearly 50 years later.
Continue reading Retro RFHers’ TGIF Among BFFsIn Memoriam: Fair Haven- and Shrewsbury-Raised RBR Grad Emily Kaeli
Fair Haven- and Shrewsbury-raised Emily Kaeli, a beloved daughter, sister and aunt, left this world on Saturday, July 13, after a valiant four-year and eight-month battle with a rare form of spinal cancer.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Haven- and Shrewsbury-Raised RBR Grad Emily KaeliRetro Rumson Island Ploppers
It’s a case of summer island plopping. Yes, that’s right. Island plopping.
That would be the more accurate term when telling the pretty common story of some Fair Haven and Rumson kids taking their own eight-hour tour of the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers and ending up settling down for some adventure on Starvation Island in Rumson on pretty much any summer day.
Continue reading Retro Rumson Island PloppersRetro Neighborhood Bathing Beauty Besties
A reprise in honor of beating the heat of summer days with a little backyard pool dip, dressing for the occasion, and those first, best neighborhood friends …
Back in the summer of ’65 … the heat was on, and some pint-sized bathing beauties were set to walk the walk, if the suit and the bathing cap fit.
Continue reading Retro Neighborhood Bathing Beauty BestiesRiver Water Quality, Fishing, Waterborne Recreation Alert
From Captain Brian Rice, Navesink River Municipalities Committee chairman, native Fair Havenite …
I am writing to inform you of a critical situation that has arisen at the Red Bank construction site located at the intersection of Oakland and Maple Avenue. During the construction activities, the main sewer line was broken, resulting in a significant sewage leakage.
Continue reading River Water Quality, Fishing, Waterborne Recreation AlertIn Memoriam: Fair Haven Native, RFH ’45 Grad, George Venable Curchin, 96
Fair Haven native and Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) 1945 graduate, George Venable Curchin, more recently of Tinton Falls, died on July 8 after a short illness. It was just a week before his 97th birthday.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Haven Native, RFH ’45 Grad, George Venable Curchin, 96Retro Fair Haven Folk Singers’ Patriotic Beat
Hey, Mr. Tamborine kid, play a song for us!
It wasn’t all about the guitar strumming, singing and parading on patriotic holidays only.
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Folk Singers’ Patriotic BeatScene Around: RFHers for the KDM Foundation Scholarship Win
In the name of the late Keith McHeffey, there are now two more grads of his Alma Mater added to the KDM Foundation’s scholarship list.
Continue reading Scene Around: RFHers for the KDM Foundation Scholarship WinIn Memoriam: Area Doctor and Longtime Monmouth Beach Resident, Dr. Arthur Loebel, 91
Longtime Monmouth Beach resident and Fair Haven and Red Bank doctor, Dr. Arthur S. Loebel, passed away on Saturday, July 6, at his home. He was 91.
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