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Retro Fair Haven Crabby Catch on the Navesink

Crabbing in Fair Haven on the Navesink River postcard circa 1937

It’s that time. Time to get seriously crabby on the river.

Nothing fishy about it. It’s a rite a passage in Fair Haven. It has been since the dawn of time in the borough and surrounding area. Kids, even entire families, buckets and nets in hand, get down to the Navesink River and start netting the crabbiest of crabs.

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Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel, Construction Advisory

Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge construction, sidewalk closed
Photo/Elaine Van Develde

Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement activity is on its status quo construction hours schedule, from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., through Sunday, May 18, weather permitting, with no bridge openings for a period of time. The precise construction that is scheduled is listed below. Shrewsbury River travel advisory information is also included. 

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Retro RFH Teacher-Administrator Cool at School Moment

A look back at RFH science teacher James Parker and Assistant Superintendent Donald Trotter Photo/George Day
A look back at RFH science teacher James Parker and
Assistant Superintendent Donald Trotter
Photo/George Day

A reprise, originally posted in 2015, because a new RFH superintendent has reported to the office … 

RFH has a new superintendent. He’s reported to the office and has walked those hallowed halls of good ol’ RFH.

And with thoughts of welcoming the new, the old and that teacher-administrator rapport comes to mind. Back in the day, or the ’70s at least, there were those administrators who weren’t just a Charlie Brown teacher’s voice cawing over the ol’ daydreaming student’s non-thought process. Some, or one in particular, are remembered as a real education innovators.

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RFH Student-Athletes Sign On to Colleges with Letters of Intent

It’s official. They’ve signed. They’re committed.

Seventeen Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) student-athletes made their college choices official on Wednesday, May 7, by signing Letters of Intent, pledging to continue their athletic and academic careers in colleges.

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Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel, Construction Advisory

Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement activity is on its status quo construction hours schedule, from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., through Sunday, May 18, weather permitting. The precise construction that is scheduled is listed below. Shrewsbury River travel advisory information is also included. 

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Retro RFH Mathematical Teaching Moments

RFH math teachers of the 1970s
Photo/RFH Yearbook

It all adds up. Good teachers plus intriguing personalities equals motivated, successful students. And, no matter how you put the equation together at RFH, there was no zero involved when it came to high school math teachers.

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Scene Around: Celebrating a Rumson-Fair Haven Area Icon’s Family-Style 90 Years

An area icon turns 90 today. That’s 32,874 days. It’s 47,338,560 minutes (and counting). That’s a lot of time on this planet. And it’s been time spent with family — family at home and in the community. Call it a youth elixir. Family time.

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