Longtime Fair Havenite and VNA hospice volunteer Diane B. Vigilante passed away peacefully at home on Oct. 12. She was 88.
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Remembering Joan Blake: Ode to the Fair Haven Mom, Schools’ Aide
Photo/screenshot of RFH yearbook
When you’ve grown up in a small town, your memories often revolve around the comforting kind of feeling that anyone else’s mother, no matter their child-rearing differences or life circumstances, is a surrogate of your very own. That’s just how it is. The neighborhood concept.
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Focus: Rich Chandler’s Fair Haven Goodbye
The picture of his childhood friend caught his eye. Among the cozy chatter of old friends and family, he left the conversation at the table staring, transfixed for a brief moment. The sudden silence in his own head overcame him, welled up a bit in his eyes as he moved toward the picture of his old friend that seemed to call to him.
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His Beat Goes On: Saying Goodbye to Rich Chandler
“It’s the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It’s only honesty that makes it beautiful.”
Elvin Jones
That stark, shining, honest beauty straight from the heart is what emanated a bright light to countless people from the soul of Richard Chandler. The 60-year-old professional drummer, husband, dad, uncle and friend, who was known to never skip a beat when generously giving his love and talent, lost his years-long battle with cancer on Sunday, Oct. 4.
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Retro Hippie Hill Hunt Scene
It’s that time the year again when thoughts of old-time Hunt times come flooding back for many Rumson-Fair Haven area folks. There may still be a Hunt, but not this one. So, we are offering a glimpse back to the days of the Haskell Hunt from a non-tailgating vantage point with a reprise of the following Retro Pic(s) of the Day piece originally posted on Oct. 20, 2017 …
The hunt for more Hunt photos ensued and the find was a treasure trove of glimpses at the happening scene up on hip, hip Hippie Hill. RFH grad and Hippie Hill frequenter Bird Jensen reminded us last year that the last weekend in October “would’ve been the weekend we’d all gather at Hippie Hill.”
Fair Havenite Tom Bull’s description of The Hunt to “outsiders” has quickly become a classic: “I used to explain to people how it was a cross between a Grateful Dead concert and a Grey Poupon commercial.”
The elegant tailgating part shown in previous years would be the Grey Poupon commercial aspect. We will reprise that next. Hippie Hill is the Grateful Dead concert side — or so it would naturally seem.
So, here’s the Dead concert — or, perhaps, a little Lennon soirée …
It was probably the late 1970s. These peacefully assembled cool long hairs and renegades likely snuck into the Haskell Hunt through the fence and onto that infamous hill on ol Amory Haskell’s elegant estate. Call them musicians, concertgoers and peace pipe tokers, if you will.
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Living the Dream: A Native Fair Havenite’s Navesink Love Story
“My peace-and-quiet maker. My trusted secret keeper. My adventure sharer.
Judy Goddard
My Navesink.”
Judy Russell Goddard is in love. And the native Fair Havenite has a story to show and tell all about her lifetime love affair.
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Retro 1951 Rumson High Football Kicks
Well, the RFH Bulldogs won their first game on Friday night by a landslide. So, we’re going back again to 1951 with a look at the team, those uniforms and some personal insight from one of the players himself, Chuck Seymour, a 1951 then Rumson High School graduate.
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Scene Around: RFH Marching Band, Color Guard Show Goes On
The pandemic didn’t stop the show. The Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Marching Band and Color Guard marched, twirled and played on at Friday night’s first RFH Football game. And the show was winning, by all accounts, just like the team.
Continue reading Scene Around: RFH Marching Band, Color Guard Show Goes OnIn Memoriam: Former Fair Haven Library Director, Gloria Price, 89, of Red Bank
Former Fair Haven Library director Gloria Anne Price, of Red Bank, passed away peacefully, her family by her side, on Oct. 3. She was 89.
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In Memoriam: Rumsonite, Volunteer, Business Women’s Advocate, Mentor, Dorothy T. Bailey, 63
Longtime Rumsonite and volunteer with the borough’s PTO, Education Foundation, Holy Cross and Red Bank’s Lunch Break, Dorothy T. Bailey, lost her five-year fight against cancer on Oct. 3 at New York Tish Hospital. She was 63.
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In Memoriam: Rumsonite, Sea Bright Resident, Volunteer, Nurse, Anne W. Lee
Former Rumsonite, Sea Bright resident, volunteer and former substitute nurse at Forrestdale School, Anne Whitney Lee, passed away peacefully on Sept. 29.
Born in Passaic, Anne graduated from Saint Vincent’s Nursing School in New York City, where she was a nurse for a number of years. She lived in Rumson and then Sea Bright, where she and her husband, Timothy Patrick, raised their three daughters.
“Known as a ‘caring mother and beloved friend,’ Anne was very active in her community. In addition to Nursing at Saint Vincent’s Hospital, she was a member of the Junior League, volunteered at multiple community health and wellness organizations in Monmouth County, and was a substitute Nurse at Forestdale School in Rumson. Anne touched many lives and will be dearly missed by her friends and family. “
Loved ones of Ann Whitney Lee in her obituary
Anne is survived by: her children, Mary Pat Molke and husband Richard, Connie Fox, and Susan Lee; her grandchildren, Krista, Joanna, Richard, Conor, AJ, Brendon, Cody, Alexis, and Whitney; and three great-grandchildren, Noah, Caroline and Quincy.
Visitation will be Sunday, Oct. 4, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Thompson Memorial Home, Red Bank. A memorial mass will be celebrated on Monday, Oct. 5 at 10:00 a.m. at Church of the Nativity, Fair Haven. Burial will be private.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Family and Children’s Services (FCS) of Monmouth County.
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- Retro River Cruise into Sunny Daze
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- In Memoriam: Fair Haven-Raised RFH ’72 Grad, Former Policeman, Fireman, Mike Raleigh, 72
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A COVID Kind of RFH Football Season Kick-off
The Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) football season is set to kick off on Friday night, but not without new pandemic spectator safety parameters in play.
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