Greenwood Lake would benefit from a bill pending in the New Jersey Senate. Lake funding bill OK’d by Senate panel The state Senate Environment and Energy Committee has approved bipartisan legislation, sponsored by Republican Sens. Joe... Home 16 Feb 2023 | 12:02
A harmful algal bloom on Pemberton Lake in Burlington County. (Photo courtesy of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection) Greenwood Lake, Lake Hopatcong to receive $1M each for water-quality projects The Greenwood Lake Commission will receive a $1 million grant for water-quality improvement projects, New Jersey officials... News 08 Dec 2022 | 05:12
An example of a harmful algal bloom monitoring buoy. ( NJDEP) DEP, State Police investigate algal buoy vandalism at local lakes The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) is working with the NJ State Police to investigate the vandalism... Local News 15 Jul 2022 | 05:10
The Lake Hopatcong Foundation Floating Classroom, a forty-foot, covered catamaran pontoon boat that serves as an interactive learning center on Lake Hopatcong. Cruise and learn on Lake Hopatcong’s Floating Classroom The Lake Hopatcong Foundation will be running 90-minute summer cruises on its Floating Classroom, an interactive education... News 28 Jun 2022 | 09:33
Snow tubing at Mount Peter. Photo by Roger Gavan. The best local spots for outdoor winter fun Editor’s Note: According to Punxsutawney Phil, we’ve still got a few more weeks of winter to go. Make the most of the season... Local News 18 Feb 2022 | 02:26
This is an artist's rendering of what the National Geographic calls the “camera-elusive, grooming-challenged, bipedal ape-man that roams the mountain regions of North America” and is known as Bigfoot. ‘So prehistoric and such a weird thing’: Meet the trackers on the trail of the Sussex County Bigfoot It’s 1991 or thereabouts, and Scott Nosal and his buddy are miles into the woods, along an old gas line in Vernon, setting... Local News 28 Jan 2022 | 02:04
Upper Greenwood Lake. Photo source: commons.wkimedia.org Greenwood Lake. State approves funding for Greenwood Lake and other public lakes The New Jersey State Senate has unanimously passed the lakes Funding Bill #A5778 and S3618, funds that can be use for certain... Local News 08 Jul 2021 | 10:10
Source: The Lake Hopatcong Commission Funding to combat harmful algal blooms, lake conservation advanced by legislative committee As lake communities look to rebound from state shutdowns in 2019 and 2020, the Assembly Appropriations Committee approved... Local News 16 Jun 2021 | 08:41
Small lake communities do not want controls placed on Greenwood Lake to apply for their lakes. File photo Ann Genader. A proposed ice retardant system ordinance will be addressed in West Milford Last month members of the Township of West Milford Council found an email in their information packets from the Lakes Committee... Local News 29 Dec 2020 | 02:17
Ice retardant systems proposed for Greenwood Lake Devices in use around Lake Hopatcong to protect docks and make sure that ice from the lake does not corrupt the shore line... Local News 17 Nov 2020 | 02:25
Musconetcong River (Photo: National Park Service) The Musconetcong is now a National Recreational Trail Earlier this month, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt designated the Musconetcong Watershed National... Local News 11 Nov 2020 | 10:34
Lake Hopatcong (By Aleron235 Wikipedia/Creative Commons) Man sentenced in fatal boating incident Nicholas Zarantonello, 25, of Lake Hopatcong has been sentenced for his involvement in a fatal boating incident that occurred... Police & Fire 26 Oct 2020 | 03:56
Lake Lookover is one of the many private lake communities in West Milford. Photo by Ann Genader. Highlands Council approves funding to support watershed assessment The Highlands Council has approved funding up to $200,000 to support watershed assessment surrounding 22 private and public... Local News 19 Oct 2020 | 08:04
The National September 11 Memorial (Luis Molinero/freepik.com) I remember 9/11 I arrived on one of the last PATH trains that went into the North Tower after it had already been hit by the first aircraft... Opinion 04 Sep 2020 | 08:19
Photo illustration Highlands Act anniversary - still incomplete Editor’s note: The following column is from the New Jersey Sierra Club. Aug. 10th marked the 16th anniversary of landmark... Letters to the Editor 20 Aug 2020 | 11:39
