GARDEN GROWS William King stood red-eyed and stunned. King and his wife, Jane, had driven an hour from their Nyack, N.Y., home Thursday night, hoping others would share the vision of their daughter, Alice, who died in a motorcycle accident in October. When the first Hopatcong Community Garden presentation was over, King spoke softly. Click here for more.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? What should be Hopatcong's slogan? Jefferson calls itself the "Year Round Recreation Capital." Mount Arlington says its the "Gateway to Lake Hopatcong." And what about Andover? Well, there it's all about "Today's People; Tomorrow's Progress." But what do you think? We had quite the discussion in the comment section. Click here for more and join in.
FOOD! Sometimes Tom Lynch and his wife, Carolyn, wake up to a minivan filled with cans of soup or vegetables. "We don't lock it and people know it's our car," Carolyn Lynch said. Click here for more.
SHE'LL BE MISSED Alba "Babe" DeMartino died of natural causes Monday. She was 78. Babe worked as a Quick Chek cashier in Hopatcong for more than 20 years. Click here for more.
WHO IS DALE SLOAT? The words hang on the cluttered corkboard at Hopatcong's animal pound. Dale Sloat put them there. And while they weren't meant to serve as corollary to his animal control career the way your friends use Facebook to relate quotes to their lives—like Al Pacino's "Any Given Sunday" halftime speech or just about anything Yogi Berra has ever said—Mary Koegler believes they could. Click here for more.
