The summer of 2020 in the Rumson-Fair Haven area has seen a pandemic, the lightning speed wrath of a tropical storm, a vast power outage and now, with the sun’s reappearance, shark sightings in the Navesink River.
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Simple Summer: Fishin’ for Sunny Dock Daze
The summer of 2020 has been anything but simple — pandemic, tropical storm rip, power outage, murder hornets. And then down came the rain …
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Retro Night Out on a Pandemic Year Night In
Fair Haven’s National Night Out 2020 turned into Night In. And it was a night in to be remembered — for nothing except the pandemic that showed no mercy and canceled another community event.
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Scene Around: Weather, Tides, COVID & River View
Well, last week wound down with electricity still down and out in the Rumson-Fair Haven area, but sun spirits up for those who took advantage of the water’s calming effect.
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Retro Powering Through: Light in Dark Sandy Times
A thank-you to Alabama Power from Fair Haven children in the wake of Superstorm Sandy 2012
Photo/Elaine Van Develde
Autographed Alabama Power hard hat left to Fair Haven in the wake of Superstorm Sandy in 2012
Photo/Elaine Van Develde
Well, Tropical Storm Isaias ripped through the Rumson-Fair Haven area like an angry NIMBY, leaving lots of carnage, uncanny sun and power outages in its wake.
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In Memoriam: Fourth-Generation Rumsonite, Former Borough Administrator, Public Servant, Gary Sammon, 77
Rumson is in mourning for a longtime resident and public servant whom many credit for making the borough what it is today.
Fourth-generation Rumsonite and former Borough Administrator Gary Sammon passed away peacefully at his home on Sunday, Aug. 2, surrounded by loving family that cared for him over the last year. He was 77.
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Speaking to People: Fair Haven Icon Dorothy Breckenridge’s Final Crossing
She took her own advice. She didn’t set her foot down off that curb until the time was right. She listened. She heard. She waited for her own cue to speak. And she walked, ever so gracefully, a nod of acknowledged gratitude to each person to whom she spoke along her life’s path. She had heard herself crow with pride one last time, “CROOOOOOSSSSSS!”
Strong, stop-sign hands extended, the stalwart, kind Fair Haven woman who spent nearly 20 years “speaking” to children and crossing them safely to the other side of the road has crossed over herself at the age of 90. She was Dorothy Breckenridge.
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Retro RFH Close Encounter Party Daze
Photo/RFH Class of 78 reunion archives
On the heels of some teen partying over the bridge in Middletown that resulted in 20 positive COVID-19 test results and prompted emergency tracing by the township’s health department, we are reminded of a carefree partying time post graduation.
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In Memorium: Rumsonite John Patrick McLean
Rumsonite John Patrick McLean died peacefully on July 25.
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Kevin Pfister: RFH’s New Principal
Photo/RFH
A former Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) math teacher who began his education career at the high school is being called back — this time to the principal’s office.
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Retro Summer Fair Haven Dock Days
Photo/Elaine Van Develde
A 2016 reprise, because it’s summertime and such close summer encounters aren’t so easy these days, but we can remember at several years’ distance and summon them back…
Summer fun in Fair Haven doesn’t get any simpler or more treasured than ending the day down by the Fair Haven Dock, sand between the toes, a few antics up the sleeve, a little seaweed in the shorts, and a crab or 20. Dock time has been a time-honored tradition for kids since, well, the dawn of time.
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Volunteer Value: Surviving a Sunday Drive Accident
If you were one of the many who heard first aid, fire and police sirens blaring n the Rumson-Fair Haven area on Sunday afternoon, you probably also know by now that the accident that brought the brigade of emergency responders to the intersection of Ridge and Fair Haven roads left a Rumson couple literally a little flipped out and banged up, but alright and grateful.
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