Rumson-raised longtime Fair Havenite, Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) 1969 graduate and 37-year Fair Haven Fire Department member, Frank A. Scalzo, passed away on July 3.
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Focus: River Time Front-Row Seat
Sometimes the best front-row seat is the one that cradles your river time.
Wherever it is, front-row Rumson Barnacle Bill’s or docked, it’s that seat that offers a hometown view with heart. Even in the haze, the the clarity of what matters most is caught like an opening night bouquet tossed into the audience’s lap from the Navesink River’s scenic stage.
It’s a show without a ticket or playbill. Curtain’s always up, even if the lights are dim and no one’s in the house. That’s because it’s always your own show with a take-away that stays like pressed flowers from the best of times.
That front-row seat to river time always calls, offering river time its own sitting ovation — always bowing in, not out.
That’s the show that holds down by the river. Always. Take a look at the above photo gallery for a glimpse from the seat ... (CLICK on one photo to enlarge and scroll. Enjoy!)
— Photos/Elaine Van Develde
The weekend weather …
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Retro RFH Guys’ Summer Dive
Photo/RFH Yearbook 1976
The sun has had a hard time peering out from the dank weather veil these days. So, daydreaming about a simpler summer time when a dive into the ocean in Sea Bright was all you needed comes a lot easier than that ball of fire and the imminent need to cool down.
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Weekly Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory
Despite the steady stream of rainy weather through last week and into this week, this week’s Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement activity remains status quo. Work on the bridge continues Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day, again, weather permitting, with a few new notes to roadway and sidewalk users. Note that the sidewalk across the bridge is fully open to pedestrians and bicyclists.
Monmouth County officials advise …
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Focus: Solstice River Walk Solace
It doesn’t have to be the longest day of the year to get the most out of the warmth of river time before the sun sets, calling it a day — a first summer day.
The day may be over, but the river time feeling is forever docked in the mind. The fair haven on the Navesink always calls. Rain never drowns the call. The lap. The lull. The gentle tide reaches out and tugs at our hearts to stay. And we do.
Any day is the longest day down by the river, because it’s an endless river walk in our Fair Haven.
Rain never washes away the footprint of time wrapped in home’s swaddling river tide.
— Photos/Elaine Van Develde for R-FH Retro exclusively
And there will be lots of rain this week, drenching the area, according to the National Weather Service. It continues through the weekend and into next week …
- Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory
- Retro RFH Football Champs’ Cheer Lift
- In Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite, RFH Grad, J.J. Ryan III
- Scene Around: A Gem of a Happy Hour for a Former Rumson Mayor
- Retro RFH Tower Players’ Fall Play Time
Clean Ocean Action: Fight Against ‘Massive Industrial Assault’ on Ocean Ensues
The fight to keep the ocean clean has reverted and intensified. Clean Ocean Action is rallying against what it has dubbed an “unprecedented massive industrial assault proposed to the ocean.”
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Retro RFH Graduation Traditions
Our annual RFH graduation reprise in honor of the RFH Class of 2023 … Congrats!
RFHers did the graduation walk on Friday. And it’s a walk that has veered off onto different paths over the years — but always to Pomp & Circumstance.
Wow. So much has changed, yet stayed the same. The venue has gone from the RFH Borden Stadium to the front lawn to the Borden Stadium and the football field again to the RFH auditorium and mixed up and around over the years. Now it’s at the Monmouth University. And two years ago, in pandemic times, the venue was outside, masked and virtual. Now it’s back to Monmouth again for the second year out of pandemic graduation times.
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Retro Fair Haven Fisk AME Chapel Folks
A reprise from Feb. 5, 2016 in honor of Juneteenth …
The Fair Haven Fisk AME Chapel is steeped in tradition — Fair Haven tradition and roots that many do not realize jut very deep into the community.
Many of the founding families of Fair Haven have roots that are deeply entrenched in the church. A lot of the names and faces are traceable back to the early days of the church, back in the mid-1800s.
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Weekly Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory
This week’s Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement activity remains status quo. It continues Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day, weather permitting, with a few new notes to roadway and sidewalk users.
Monmouth County officials advise …
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Ode to the Grand Daddies of the R-FH Area
Our annual tribute …
It’s Father’s Day weekend.
And, we at Rumson-Fair Haven Retrospect are of the mind that the actual day on Sunday was really about much more than flipping a burger and patting a good ol’ dad on the back.
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Retro Gowned-Up Fair Haven Girl Grads
Fair Haven eighth graders have done both walks — the traditional final walk down Third Street and that graduation walk.
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Scene Around: Rumson School’s Out Clap-Out
School’s out in Rumson!
And while tradition dictates that Fair Haven’s eighth grade grads to the infamous walk down Third Street to much fanfare, Rumson students do what they call a “clap-out.” And it just happened very recently.
They’re leaving the hallowed halls of Forrestdale School and moving on to the next block at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School — most of the grads, anyway.
So, as they exit the school for the last time, the students do it to applause … and a bit of fanfare, like some drum beating. Some of the teachers also celebrated their last exit from the school. It’s anyone’s guess what was going on among students at this moment, but there are some amusing clues here.
Take a look at the photo gallery above, courtesy of the Rumson School District, for a glimpse into the milestone moment.
- Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory
- Retro RFH Football Champs’ Cheer Lift
- In Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite, RFH Grad, J.J. Ryan III
- Scene Around: A Gem of a Happy Hour for a Former Rumson Mayor
- Retro RFH Tower Players’ Fall Play Time
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