Longtime Rumsonite Sharon Holt Day passed away on Jan. 7 from an apparent stroke. She was surrounded by her loving family and spent her last hours looking out at the Navesink River from her home in Rumson, where she had lived for nearly 50 years.
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Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory

Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement construction activity remains status quo this week, with sunny, clear weather prospects making way for no predicted impediments. Work is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through Friday, Jan. 26.
Continue reading Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel AdvisoryIn Memoriam: Rumson-Raised RFH 2011 Grad, Artist, Skateboarder, Musician, Thomas ‘Cooper’ Ley, 30
“You gave no one a last farewell, nor ever said goodbye. You were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why. A million times we will miss you. A million times we will cry. If love alone could have saved you, you never would have died. In life we loved you dearly, in death we love you still, in our hearts you hold a place no one else can fill.”

It is with tremendous sorrow that the Ley family announces the unexpected passing of Thomas Cooper Ley on Jan. 11 — a beautiful soul taken too soon.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Rumson-Raised RFH 2011 Grad, Artist, Skateboarder, Musician, Thomas ‘Cooper’ Ley, 30In Memoriam: Rumson Resident, Nahabed Charkoudian, 93
In the end he remarked that ‘he had a good run …’ We would say that he ran quite the marathon: 93 years. And we raise a glass of his favorite scotch and say to him, “Well done. you can rest now, Dad.'” ~ family of Nahabed Charkoudian in his obituary
Rumson resident Nahabed Charkoudian, formerly a longtime resident of Springfield, MA, passed away peacefully with his loving family by his side on Jan. 15. He was 93.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Rumson Resident, Nahabed Charkoudian, 93Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory

Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement construction activity remains status quo this week, depending on the impending snow and rain. Work is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through Friday, Jan. 19.
Continue reading Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel AdvisoryRetro Rumson Police Swear-In and Appreciation

The other day was Law Enforcement Appreciation Day.
Continue reading Retro Rumson Police Swear-In and AppreciationIn Memoriam: Rumson-Raised RFH Class of ’73 Grad, John Axt, 68
Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduate, John Dennis Axt, passed away at his home in Tromball, TX on Dec. 27, after a long illness with cancer. He was 68.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Rumson-Raised RFH Class of ’73 Grad, John Axt, 68Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory

Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement construction activity remains status quo this week, depending on the weather. Work is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through Friday, Jan. 12.
Continue reading Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel AdvisoryRetro Rumson Fire Company Reorg

Photo/courtesy of Jo Ann Slocum Mazzucca
The following Retro Pic of the Day was originally published on Jan. 4 2016. In honor of the Rumson Fire Department reorganization of the new year, we are offering a look back at the reorg of 1965:
As tradition goes in the Rumson-Fair Haven area, New Year’s Day is the day of swearing line officers in to the respective fire companies.
So, in honor of the time-honored tradition, the Retro Pic of the Day offers a glimpse back to 1965 and Rumson’s top line officers.
Continue reading Retro Rumson Fire Company ReorgRumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory

With a murky, drizzly post-Christmas week in the weather forecast, Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement construction activity remains status quo this week, depending on just how drizzly it gets. Work is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through Friday, Dec. 29.
Continue reading Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel AdvisoryIn Memoriam: Former Longtime Rumsonite, Gloria Manzi, 83
Former longtime Rumsonite, Gloria Manzi, more recently of Shrewsbury, “entered God’s loving embrace on Sunday, Dec. 17, one day shy of her 84th birthday.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Former Longtime Rumsonite, Gloria Manzi, 83Scene Around: A Rumson Family’s ‘Shelter in Solitude’
Have you seen her? Probably. At the store, in the car, at local haunts, at charity events, at the schools, at church — and on stage, on TV … and in the movies. The latest you’ll see of her, other than around the towns, is on screen in the now streaming movie Shelter in Solitude.
She’s Siobhan Fallon Hogan. She’s a Rumsonite. And, among (or sometimes above) other things, she’s an actress. Rumson’s local celebrity. And seeing her in the movies these days means also knowing that it’s a Hogan family affair in independent filmmaking. Call it, rather, a Rumson family production/acting entourage of three RFH grads — her husband Pete and kids — and a character actress star/screenwriter imported to Rumson by marriage.
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