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Lake Hopatcong Alliance Update: LHC Meeting Recap, Protecting our Lake from Water Chestnut, and More...

Greetings from the Lake Hopatcong Alliance! We hope you are enjoying your summer! We'd like to take this opportunity to share information about an upcoming benefit, on behalf of one of our LHA members, as well as a recap of the last Lake Hopatcong Commission meeting, information about protecting our Lake from Water Chestnut, an extremely aggressive non-native plant, and more.

Wooden Boats: Lake Hopatcong Goes on the Road!...

Members of the Lake’s chapter of the Antique & Classic Boat Society have been traveling with their boats.
A few weeks ago the destination was Skaneateles, one of the Finger Lakes of upstate New York for the Finger Lakes ACBS chapter annual boat show, and several members of the Lake Hopatcong chapter won awards at the event.

Your Voices: Awesome Winter Scene...

My son, Alex Kays, took this photo last week. It is a view towards Raccoon Island from Katz's Marina in Henderson Cove.

Home Front on the Waterfront: Rainy Days and Mondays and Tuesdays...and Wednesdays...

There is something about the rainy days on the lake that is a bit depressing-like that old Carpenter’s song from the 70’s, Rainy Days and Mondays (always gets me down)…and boy have we had rain lately and not just on Monday.

Paula's Pantry: Kevin and Krista (“You’ll Be In My Heart”)...

Summer has zoomed this year! From houseguests at the lodge along with Kevin and Krista’s weekend visits, to lake friends for dinner parties on the deck. As we entertain nonstop, we older adults slow down our party pace, just as our young adults pick the pace up as summer draws to a close.

Go Fish: Knee Deep Club Stocks Hybrid Striped Bass...

On Tuesday, August 31, Knee Deep Club members Jim Smith, Jim Maloney, Ted Regetz, and Jerry Freeman, along with club trustees Bill Wiedeman, Pete Cusick, Dick Pedati, Harold Mabee, club directors Tim Clancy and Lou Marcucci, and club president Les Aughey, float stocked 18,832 four inch Hybrid Striped Bass throughout the main lake section of Lake Hopatcong. With the 8,196 Hybrid Striped Bass that were float stocked July, 15 2010 a grand total of 27,028 of these fish have been stocked this year. All of these fish were raised by the Division of Fish & Wildlife at there Hackettstown Hatchery. This stocking was filmed by nj.com and will shown at www.nj.com/videos in the near future.

Editor's Corner: We're in Print!...

Starting today, you may see Lake Hopatcong News & Reviews in print at your local marina, convenience store, or other spot around the lake. We’ve built up a web presence at LakeHopatcongNews.com for more than a year now, and our weekly issues have been available in PDF form on the website. But this week marks the beginning of our distribution of print copies to dozens of businesses in the Lake Hopatcong area. So keep visiting our website, but also keep an eye out for the printed newspapers, with a new issue available every Friday. If you can't find it, know you can always access the printed version on the main page of the website—just scroll down to where it says "View This Week's Edition."