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🌱 Patch AM: Oceanic Bridge Replacement Plans Reveal New Changes For Rumson

Also check out Estate Planning: 5 Essential Things You Should Know on the Rumson Patch calendar

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Cheers Rumson! We're back, helping you stay up to date with what's happening. Let's take on the day together! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • See how new Oceanic Bridge plans could reshape Rumson's riverfront access
  • See how high Rumson's floodwaters rose for people and wildlife.
  • Remember when RFH's first girl took the field with the boys?

Also on today's calendar: Estate Planning: 5 Essential Things You Should Know and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Some sun, then clouds, with a high of 84 and low of 63 degrees.
  • Saturday: Partly sunny and not as warm, temps: high: 71, low: 63.
  • Sunday: Chance of a little p.m. rain, with a high of 63 and low of 58 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Oceanic Bridge Replacement Plans Reveal New Changes For Rumson (patch.com) — Rumson residents are getting a clearer picture of how the Oceanic Bridge replacement could reshape walking, biking and driving between town and Middletown, especially around Victory Park. Monmouth County engineers outlined three Rumson-side path options that would alter parking, traffic flow and riverfront access, and are seeking public comments through Oct. 30 before moving toward final design.
   

• WATCH: Fox Swims Through Flooded New Jersey Neighborhood (outdoors.com) — Flooding in Rumson has gotten so severe that even local wildlife is adapting, as a resident captured video of a fox swimming through a heavily flooded neighborhood. Recent nor'easter rains have drenched New Jersey, leaving Rumson residents and animals alike struggling to navigate and recover from the high water.
   

• Retro RFH Soccer Girl Goal (rumsonfairhavenretrospect.com) — Rumson-Fair Haven grads are reminiscing about Chris Bowden, the trailblazing RFH Class of 1976 athlete remembered as the first girl to play on the boys' soccer team. The piece celebrates her role in local sports history and invites longtime Rumson-area residents to recall when the school finally formed a girls' soccer team.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

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  • New Jersey wedding saved by gym after nor'easter flooding forces couple to switch venues (abc7ny.com)
  • Late Kick Could Prove Key for Souper Forces in Artie Schiller (ftboa.com)

Middletown

  • Rained-Out Wedding Held In Empty Circus Liquor Store In Middletown (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig?" — Because he was such a boar! (Thank you Theresa H. for sending it in!)
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