Fair Haven News

The wind was frigid and the snow was beginning to fall in earnest on Saturday afternoon as friends, family, colleagues and others who shared his passions began filing into Thompson Memorial Home, on Broad Street, to express their lose at the passing last week of Dery Bennett.

Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that attacks the central nervous system often causing chronic and often disabling symptoms.

Dery Bennett,79, of Fair Haven, a champion of the coast and ocean died on December 15.

Time is of the essence, for the Friends of the Oceanic Bridge to make their case to state and federal officials regarding the future design of the aging span.

The Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders has released another installment in its online history project that features the borough's war memorial in a two-and-a-half-minute video available for viewing on the county Web site at www.

The questions at Tuesday's Borough Council meeting came fast, not from the usual suspects, but from future homeowners, parents and perhaps council people Monday at Knollwood School.

On the third floor of the sleek oceanside Adrenaline health club, 10 eighth-graders from the small private Sisters Academy in Asbury Park had little time earlier this week to look out the eastern windows at the calming sea and December sky.

Four motor vehicle charges against a former Fair haven fire chief, who struck a pole and jumped off the Oceanic Bridge, sparking a massive rescue effort last month, won't be heard in court until 2010.

Eric George Carpenter, 75, of Elkton, Fla., and formerly of Fair Haven, died on November 13 after battling cancer with the very same grace, dignity and fortitude that he demonstrated throughout his life.

Police early Sunday morning pulled out an unoccupied 2004 white Honda Civic found submerged in 10 feet of water at Leonardo State Marina, officials said.

Former Fair Haven Fire Chief Shaun Foley, whose accident in the fire chief's vehicle last month resulted in a massive rescue effort, also had an accident with a fire department vehicle in 2008.

The Two River Times has filed suit in federal court alleging trademark infringement by a competing publication.

It was all whispers prior to Fair Haven's regular Borough Council meeting on Monday night.

The Fair Haven Borough Mayor and Council opened a discussion about entertaining the idea of introducing an ordinance that would ban smoking in vehicles with passengers under the age of 18.

Early nationwide data on Black Friday spending show a slight rise in post-Thanksgiving sales over last year, as Shore-area retailers report attempts to draw customers with special events and sales are paying off this weekend.

Police issued motor vehicle summonses to a Jersey shore fire chief who authorities said jumped off a North Jersey bridge into a river following a crash.

The fire chief resigned after he crashed his car and jumped off a bridge into the Navesink River Sunday, bringing dozens of responders to the Oceanic Bridge, a report in the Asbury Park Press said.

A FAIR HAVEN MAN who was a financial advisor and broker for more than 20 years, pleaded guilty this week to a running an elaborate Ponzi scheme that bilked New Jersey investors out of more than $9 million, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Trenton.

The chief of the Fair Haven Fire Department was expected to be released from the hospital today after rescuers plucked him from the Navesink River which he jumped into following a motor vehicle accident Sunday night, authorities said.

When they convene here six months from now for the first Dad Vail Regatta outside Philadelphia in more than half a century, thousands of collegiate rowers on the Navesink River will race past the Salt Creek Grille and take in a view of the splendid Oceanic Bridge and riverfront homes.