It’s just one of those unofficial summer days — an everybody-in-the-pool kinda day.
It’s the kind of day when a Rumson-Fair Haven area person wishes he or she could take a swim, sit on a poolside porch overlooking the ocean and rock. Really rock … in a rocking chair at the old iconic Peninsula House.
Continue reading Swimming in Retro ‘P’ House Times It’s all about celebrating community spirit.
That’s what The Foundation of Fair Haven organizers are stressing about this year’s Fair Haven Day, set for June 8 — not that there’s anything new about that. It’s just that after a bit of time of doing without a Foundation and a Fair Haven Day, they felt that with the second year since the day’s full-on resurrection, the time was more than right to make the theme come to life with extra purpose. And there are new ways to celebrate the exclamation to that end.
Continue reading The Fair Haven Day 2024 Story 
It’s been a Memorial Day of the traditional kind in the Rumson-Fair Haven area. The day, usually kicked off by parades in Rumson and Fair Haven and solemn services at Victory and Memorial parks, respectively, brings people in the communities together. Groups, standing shoulder-to-shoulder, honoring those who sacrificed their lives in service to the country, is the usual visual.
Continue reading Retro Rumson Eighth Graders’ Memorial Day
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge construction work remains status quo, with the exception of major roadwork on the Rumson side this week. All construction continues on the usual 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. schedule though Friday, weather permitting.
Continue reading Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge & Roadway Travel Alert They made a Navesink splash.
The water rescue units of the Rumson and Fair Haven First Aid squads made their inaugural water run of the season with the Nav-e-Sink or Swim race patrol out of Victory Park in Rumson today.
Continue reading Scene Around: Marine Units Make a Splash in Nav-e-Sink or Swim 
Call it a boatload of waterborne sunshine.
On the cusp of the unofficial start of summer, thoughts turn to sunny cruising on the Navesink River.
Continue reading Retro River Cruise into Summer Daze 
“Where’s your father?” my Fair Haven neighbor shouted to me from across the street some years ago a bit before Memorial Day.
“Uh, whaaat??” I answered with a chuckle. “Um, he’s in the cemetery?”
“Which one?” he asked.
A bit befuddled and more focused on taking the garbage out than my long-deceased dad’s whereabouts, I shook my head and laughed as he continued with “We can’t find him.”
Continue reading Focus: A Memorial Flag Day for Fair Haven Fire Department’s Departed
And the winner is … Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) for four 2024 Basie Awards.
Continue reading Scene Around: RFH Basie Award Winnings 
You could say that this RFH guy of the 1970s is bending over backwards for a baseball catch. Something like that.
Continue reading Retro RFH Baseball Catch 
The RFH Senior Prom was Friday and people are still talking about it and its stylings — or writing about it on social media.
The photos of prom ways of 2024 gave fossils of RFH yesteryear proms something to talk about — in their vintage minds, anyway.
Continue reading Old News: RFH Hollywood-Style Prom Glamming The scene in the Rumson-Fair Haven area on Friday was flush with a little TGIF and a lot of senior prom.
Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) seniors stepped out and into classic prom times 2024 with traditional pre-prom gatherings and festivities.
Continue reading Scene Around: Digging the RFH Senior Pre-Prom Shindig 
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge construction work remains status quo, with an alternating traffic alert for Tuesday. All construction continues this week on the usual 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. schedule though Friday, weather permitting.
Continue reading Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Alert 
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