
With every season, there is a reason … for a new mural to be painted on the side of Fair Haven Hardware.
Continue reading Scene Around: Painting the Way to Spring
With every season, there is a reason … for a new mural to be painted on the side of Fair Haven Hardware.
Continue reading Scene Around: Painting the Way to Spring“It is with heavy hearts we announce the death our beloved and beautiful” longtime Rumsonite and former Deane-Porter kindergarten teacher, Suzanne “Sue” Elizabeth Gavin. She passed away peacefully on March 21 at home after a long illness. She was 85.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite, Deane-Porter Teacher, Sue Gavin, 85Former longtime Fair Havenite, mom, wife, seamstress, actress, singer and adventurer, Mary Lyn Cady-Bilow, passed away peacefully in the company of her family on March 20. She was 89.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Former Longtime Fair Havenite, Mary Lyn Cady-Bilow, 89

The RFH Tower Players have played hard, as usual, and the troupe opened its spring musical Evil Dead on Friday night. The spring musical at the high school is long standing tradition — and one that has come with much accolades for fine artistic work.
Continue reading Retro RFH Tower Players’ ‘My Fair Lady’ ’80s Play TimeIt is with great sadness that the passing of Rebecca “Becca” Edith Ley is announced. Becca passed away on March 8 at 28 — a beautiful soul taken too soon.
The Rumson-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Class of 2016 graduate was born at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank on Jan. 18, 1998. After graduating from RFH, Becca then attended Monmouth University, graduating in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Physical Education.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Rumson-Raised RFH 2016 Grad, Athlete, Artist, Writer, Becca Ley, 28It’s basketball season these school days, and a particularly winning one at RFH. So, we’re bringing this up again …
It’s no secret that RFH has had some slam dunk success with the sport. So has Rumson’s Forrestdale School.
Continue reading Retro Forrestdale Basketball Slam Dunk
Our annual St. Patrick’s Day memory reprise, just because … it’s a classic scene that must be revisited …
In the Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade’s aftermath, we’re looking back at the luck of the Irish and not-so-Irish at RFH and another parade — the big one. We are remembering a time when the RFH Marching Band, Twirlers and Drill Team not only marched in area St. Patrick’s Day parades, but made it to the big one in New York City. Call it an Irish step dance of sorts — the marching and entertaining sorts.
Continue reading Retro RFH NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade March


Top o’ the Irish afternoon to ya! On this St. Patrick’s Day, we are delving back into a couple of Irish connections in the area.
Continue reading Old News: Rumson Briody & Fair Haven Teahan Irish ConnectionsDrum roll, bagpipes and march … in time-step with a now 13-year Rumson tradition — the borough’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Continue reading Retro Rumson St. Patrick’s Day ParadingThe weekend, or Sunday, to be exact, promises to be a luck of the Irish kind of time. Call it Slainte Sunday.
Continue reading The R-FH Area Weekend: St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Hibernian PartyRumson-raised longtime Fair Havenite and Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduate, Pauline Ann Sorrentino Smith, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Feb. 25. She was 85.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Rumson-Raised Longtime Fair Havenite, RFH Grad, Pauline Sorrentino Smith, 85“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our mom,” longtime Rumson resident, real estate agent, wife, grandmother and great-grandmother as well, Ann Doran, on Feb. 21. Just eight days shy of her 96th birthday, Ann was 95.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite, Real Estate Agent, Ann Doran, 95
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