FAIR HAVEN MARINE MAKES WALL OF HONOR

Knollwood School graduate Joseph McGovern Jr.,USMC is pictured with his parents Joseph Sr. and Theresa, after the ceremonial unveiling of his photo on the school’s “Wall of Honor.”

Press release from Fair Haven School District

A ceremony was held on September 26 to honor Joseph (Joe) McGovern Jr., who graduated eighth grade at Knollwood School in Fair Haven in 2012. Joe’s photo has been added to the school’s “Wall of Honor” display featuring graduates who are proudly serving their country in the armed forces.

October 5, 2016 - 5:00 am | Comments ()

FAIR HAVEN: McGOVERN TO TAKE LEAD AT PD

Joe McGovern, who’s to be sworn in as chief Monday night, has spent his entire career with the borough police department. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

It’s a cliché, but in terms of police activity, Fair Haven cries out for comparison to Mayberry. Crime is almost nil, and the top two categories of calls involve traffic and residential construction: blocked driveways, dumpster placements and the like.

Still, this bedroom community has undergone a rapid growth spurt. There are hundreds of kids — more than at any time in the town’s 104-year history — and more traffic.

“We’re also one of the only towns left where most of the kids ride bikes to school,” said acting police Chief Joe McGovern, who is scheduled to become chief next week.

Which makes pedestrian safety the number-one issue for police, he said. “It’s our job to make sure they’re safe.”

April 22, 2016 - 8:00 am | Comments ()

FAIR HAVEN: CHIEF HANGING UP HIS HAT

Darryl Breckenridge is winding down a career of 35 years with the police in his hometown. He’s seen below at a 2012 Veteran’s Day commemoration with World War II veteran Ray Taylor. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

He was only four-and-a-half years old, but Darryl Breckenridge remembers the day he decided to become a policeman.

There was a knock on the family’s front door in Fair Haven, and when he looked up, “I saw that policeman’s hat” through the topmost pane, he told redbankgreen this week.

Wearing “that hat” was police Chief Carl Jaubecy, who let young Darryl sit in his lap as he offered the boy’s mother a job as a school crossing guard.

“That was it,” said Breckenridge, who’s now closing out a 35-year career in law enforcement, the last 10 as chief himself. “From that day, I knew I was going to do it.”

August 19, 2015 - 10:00 am | Comments ()

FAIR HAVEN SIGN WHACKED… AGAIN

Vandals have apparently hit the Welcome to Fair Haven again. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge)

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI

Just a couple months after it was replaced, Fair Haven’s welcome sign on River Road was again a target of vandalism.

This time, though, somebody ripped the whole thing off its tall white stanchions, leaving bent metal and a hard-to-miss hole where the borough’s seal, the steamship Albertina, had stood as the official greeter to the borough.

July 6, 2011 - 1:23 pm | Comments ()

911 DISPATCH STILL AN ISSUE IN FAIR HAVEN

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI

It’s been close to two years since Fair Haven jobbed out its emergency dispatching services to the Monmouth County Sheriffs 911 Communication Center, and so far, not so good. Still.

“We’re no more satisfied than we were last year,” said former fire chief Jim Cerruti.

Councilman Rowland Wilhelm said Monday that it comes down to clarity of the calls and delays in the calls being relayed to fire and first aiders.

Wilhelm, along with police and fire representatives, is scheduled to meet with county officials today (Thursday) “to try and allay these issues or straighten them out the best we can.”

June 16, 2011 - 7:13 am | Comments ()

FAIR HAVEN ADDS TO CAR BURGLARY CHARGES

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI

A Farmingdale man already facing charges for thefts from cars in Rumson and Tinton Falls is also responsible for 40 car break-ins in Fair Haven, police said.

“It is our guy,” Chief Darryl Breckenridge said.

Rodney Tyler, 19, was charged by Fair Haven police with theft and 40 counts of burglary on Friday, Detective Jesse Dykstra said.

June 15, 2011 - 3:34 pm | Comments ()

SPOT-HOGGING AN ISSUE IN FAIR HAVEN

Businesses say owners and employees are going over the two-hour parking limit on River and Fair Haven roads, taking precious spots away from shoppers. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge)

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI

Fair Haven’s police department is reluctant to go on a ticketing blitz downtown. But if business owners and employees keep camping at prime parking spaces, that’ll be the next course of action.

“It’s become an issue,” said Michele Berger, president of the borough’s business association, which has received complaints the last three months about owners and employees parking on River and Fair Haven roads all day. “People are asking: what are we going to do about it?”

May 25, 2011 - 6:48 am | Comments ()

BONUS FOR CHIEF, TRASH JOBBED OUT

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI

Fair Haven Police Chief Darryl Breckenridge got his annual attaboy from the borough council last night in the form of a $3,000 bonus.

This is not unusual in Fair Haven. Employees do well, they get compensated, Mayor Mike Halfacre said.

And even though Breckenridge is part of the police department, he is not a member of a union, making him eligible for a performance-based bonus, like all other non-union workers, Halfacre said.

March 15, 2011 - 1:37 pm | Comments ()

WELCOME TO _____ HAVEN

Fair Haven police suspect vandalism is the cause of its cracked sign. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi; click to enlarge)

By DUSTIN RACIOPPI

A welcome-to-Fair Haven sign on River Road was smashed in half last weekend in what Police Chief Darryl Breckenridge says was an act of vandalism.

The remains of the sign, which features the borough’s seal depicting the steamship Albertina, were removed Wednesday. A police report was filed with the department, but there are no suspects just yet, he said.

“It looks like somebody took an object and beat it up,” Breckenridge said. “Hopefully we can catch them and make them pay to fix it, or we’ll have to replace it real soon.”

October 15, 2010 - 6:17 am | Comments ()

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FAIR HAVEN MARINE MAKES WALL OF HONOR

FAIR HAVEN: McGOVERN TO TAKE LEAD AT PD

FAIR HAVEN: CHIEF HANGING UP HIS HAT

FAIR HAVEN SIGN WHACKED… AGAIN

911 DISPATCH STILL AN ISSUE IN FAIR HAVEN

FAIR HAVEN ADDS TO CAR BURGLARY CHARGES

SPOT-HOGGING AN ISSUE IN FAIR HAVEN

BONUS FOR CHIEF, TRASH JOBBED OUT

WELCOME TO _____ HAVEN