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Scene Around: Fire Safety Lessons Taught in Fair Haven

Stop, drop and roll with the lesson! That’s what Fair Haven Fire Department volunteers are teaching kids these days about fire safety.

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Scene Around: Fair Haven First Aiding at a U.S. Navy Submarine Commissioning

That ship has not sailed. It has, in fact, gone under and out to sea.

It’s the USS New Jersey submarine. It was commissioned at the Naval Weapons Station Earle (NWS Earle) pier in the Leonardo section of Middletown on Saturday; and Fair Haven First Aid Squad members were on hand to offer EMS support at the ceremony.

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Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Summer Travel Advisory

Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement and associated roadway construction activity remains status quo this week from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through Friday, weather permitting.

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Scene Around: Painting the Chapel with Community Love

Call it a Fair Haven of a community giving day.

The folks at Fair Haven Fisk AME Chapel would answer that with an “Amen!” A call for help in sprucing up the chapel that anchors much of Fair Haven’s history, more like its actual roots, was put out and the community heeded it.

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Focus: An RFH PAS Final Bow

It was no performance.

When Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School Performing Arts (PAS) seniors got together for a banquet recently, it was more like a very real final bow to one another for a bittersweet goodbye flush with impromptu performance and love of the arts and one another.

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Focus: A Memorial Flag Day for Fair Haven Fire Department’s Departed

“Where’s your father?” my Fair Haven neighbor shouted to me from across the street some years ago a bit before Memorial Day.

“Uh, whaaat??” I answered with a chuckle. “Um, he’s in the cemetery?”

“Which one?” he asked.

A bit befuddled and more focused on taking the garbage out than my long-deceased dad’s whereabouts, I shook my head and laughed as he continued with “We can’t find him.”

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