Goodbye to Rumson Rec Director Hird

Upon his retirement, John Hird was recognized at the borough's reorganization.

It was one day past his last as a department head in Rumson. On New Year's Day, an officially retired John Hird sat quietly and smiled through what, for him, was a farewell reorganization ceremony as a borough staff member. Hird had spent many years dedicating himself to borough recreation, in both full- and part-time capacities. The last eight years, though, he spent as Rumson's full-time supervisor of Parks and Recreation/director of Recreation, which he called "a wonderful job and a great run!" in the resignation letter he penned to the governing body and residents not long ago. Reminiscing about Hird's recereational run with the town, Mayor John Ekdahl recently called the post "the most difficult job in Rumson." And so the mayor and …

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