Fair Haven News

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.

Maxwell B. Smith, a 69-year-old from Fair Haven, was a financial adviser who told clients about a low-risk investment fund that supposedly had more than $300 million in assets under management and would bring tax-free returns of 7.5 to 9 percent a year, he said Tuesday in court.

A financial adviser from Fair Haven pleaded guilty today in federal court to five counts of mail fraud, admitting he defrauded investors out of $8 to $9 million.

Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre, a Republican Congressional candidate in NJ-12 in 2010, today took Representative Rush Holt to task for his continued support of controversial community-action group ACORN, calling the Congressman's comments at a townhall meeting in West Windsor Thursday night part of a continued pattern of siding with the extreme ...

"A win's a win," proclaimed incumbent Democrat Arthur Murphy III as he and fellow incumbent Michael DuPont celebrated their re-election to the borough council by a fairly narrow margin Tuesday night.

Veterans Day will be observed Tuesday morning at two ceremonies on the peninsula.

Republican Councilman Benjamin Lucarelli and his running mate Robert Marchese handily defeated Democratic opponents Matthew Cohen and Margo Tikijian for seats on the borough council last Tuesday.

When Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School girls say they'll make strides against breast cancer, they mean it.

Claire V. Brown, 83, of Milan, Pa., formerly of Rumson, died on October 13. Born January 24, 1926, in Palisades, she was the daughter of Joseph and Clara Ferrugiari Feliu.

Democrats and Republicans running for council skirmished about recent decisions to purchase parkland, a lodge and problems with the first shared emergency services dispatching contract.

The 12th is one of a handful of districts that neither Republicans nor Democrats can take for granted.

Election Day is less than three weeks away and the race for a seat on the Borough Council is heating up in Fair Haven.

A dolphin that stranded itself on a New Jersey beach has died, and officials were not immediately sure what caused it's death.

On Saturday October 10, 2009 officers from the Middletown Township Police Department arrested two men from Middletown on charges of Robbery, Conspiracy to commit Robbery and Simple Assault.

The Long Branch Concordance is participating in the 29th Annual CROP Walk for the Hungry at 12:30 p.m. Sunday.

Break out the costumes for the kids. Fair Haven's Halloween Parade will take place on Sunday, Oct.