Tag Archives: Fair Haven

Retro 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.

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Retro Neighborhood Bathing Beauty Besties

Bathing beauties of a Fair Haven neighborhood in 1965
Photo/Elaine Van Develde

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.

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River 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.

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In 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.

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Retro Patriotic Peace Pals

Peace pals of Fair Haven circa early 1970s
Photo /courtesy of Karen Allas

A red-white-and-blue patriotic reprise, just because July 4th is tomorrow …

Peace out. Patriotism. Well-played play date, kids. They were not crooks and they were no Richard Nixon wannabes. But they were at least budding impersonators. Perhaps. Or just era-inspired posers.

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