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INFORMING, SERVING AND CELEBRATING THE LAKE REGION<br />
ake Hopatcong News<br />
HOLIDAY <strong>2022</strong> VOL. 14 NO. 7<br />
A Christmas Story<br />
Times Square Church in Mount Arlington hosts annual Live Nativity<br />
DUFFY'S TREES<br />
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY<br />
THE SOUND OF CHRISTMAS<br />
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From the Editor<br />
The cover story for this issue is about a celebration of the season, a production of a live<br />
nativity, courtesy of the Times Square Church North Jersey Campus in Mount Arlington.<br />
It seems that when I was much younger, there were many opportunities to attend a live nativity.<br />
I can recall multiple churches offering a version of the event—inside, outside, with or without live<br />
animals. But today, as far as I know, Times Square Church is the only parish in the area currently<br />
offering an event like this.<br />
The production is well-planned, well-attended and professionally performed. Writer Ellen<br />
Wilkowe and I went to one of the performances last year in preparation for this story. (See page<br />
22.) We were both more than impressed with what we saw and heard.<br />
It was early December, and the night was clear and brisk. The chill, however, did not stop a few<br />
hundred people from showing up. Word is getting out about this production. If you plan to go<br />
this year, go early and dress warmly.<br />
We are wrapping up our yearlong salute to all things musical in this issue. Back in April, I<br />
wrote that we would be telling stories about people who participate in the area’s music scene—<br />
performers, writers and whoever else might be connected to making music. I thoroughly enjoyed<br />
getting to know the subjects of these stories and, of course, listening to their music. There are a lot<br />
of talented people among us. I hope you enjoyed these stories as much as I did, and I hope we’ve<br />
introduced you to some new ways to enjoy music.<br />
In keeping with the music theme and in the spirit of the season, one of the stories in this issue<br />
is about the Jefferson Township Community Chorus. Members are preparing for their annual<br />
Christmas concert in December. (See page 18.) Writer Maria Vogel-Short and I spent some<br />
time with them at a rehearsal in October. We got to see firsthand how this talented group of<br />
singers works through the nuances of some challenging musical arrangements presented by group<br />
director James Wynne. Not quite ready for a full performance, the group practiced snippets of<br />
songs, rehearsing in stops and starts instead of running through songs from beginning to end. To<br />
my untrained ear that didn’t matter. They sounded great already.<br />
Also in this issue is a story by writer Melissa Summers about Missile Silo Studios in Hopatcong<br />
and one man’s dream to make a go of his passion. In turn, it offers a path for others to fulfill their<br />
own dreams. (See page 28.) While shooting photos of owner Joe Egan for this story, I got to crash<br />
Ralph Chudley’s recording session. He’s one half of the hard rock duo Please Exist. With earplugs<br />
firmly stuffed into each ear, I snapped away as Chudley wailed and strummed, recording just bits<br />
and pieces of his songs. While the process was similar to the Jefferson Township Community<br />
Chorus rehearsals, the music itself sure was different. But the result was just the same—more<br />
enjoyable music.<br />
This being November means this is the last magazine for <strong>2022</strong>. I’ve<br />
heard from many of you about how much you enjoy the stories in each<br />
issue. I appreciate the input. I will spend most of the winter hunting<br />
for a lineup of stories for the 2023 issues, which will begin publishing<br />
in April. Don’t be shy—if you have an idea for a story, please reach out<br />
to me. My contact information is to the right of this column.<br />
In the meantime, please visit the Lake Hopatcong News website<br />
where you’ll find updates on important issues. And don’t forget to look<br />
at our calendar of events for things to do.<br />
Wishing you all a healthy and joyful holiday season. —Karen<br />
ake Hopatcong News<br />
INFORMING, SERVING AND CELEBRATING THE LAKE REGION<br />
A Christmas Story<br />
Times Square Church in Mount Arlington hosts annual Live Nativity<br />
DUFFY'S TREES<br />
THE SOUND OF CHRISTMAS<br />
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY HOME STUDIO RECORDINGS<br />
HOLIDAY <strong>2022</strong> VOL. 14 NO. 7<br />
LAKE HOPATCONG NEWS <strong>Holiday</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
ON THE COVER<br />
Bridgette Beach and husband Andrew Beach<br />
of Glen Gardner portray Mary and Joseph<br />
during the Live Nativity production at Times<br />
Square Church North Jersey Campus in<br />
Mount Arlington in 2021.<br />
-photo by Karen Fucito<br />
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Branching Out Leads to <strong>Holiday</strong> Cheer<br />
6<br />
Duffy Gardner with his dog,<br />
Skipper at last year’s tree lot.<br />
Oliver Higgins carries his “Charlie Brown” tree from the<br />
lot, followed by his brother Emmett and mom Kara.<br />
Gardner examines a tree on the lot.<br />
LAKE HOPATCONG NEWS <strong>Holiday</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
The Higgins<br />
family begins<br />
the search<br />
for a perfect<br />
tree.<br />
Photos by Karen Fucito<br />
Each year as summer winds down and fall<br />
begins, the signs that Christmas is coming<br />
start to appear. As the holiday gets closer there<br />
is Black Friday, holiday music and the telltale<br />
dusting of green and red glitter.<br />
In Mount Arlington, a beloved Christmas<br />
tradition is the appearance along Howard<br />
Boulevard of the hand-painted<br />
signs for Duffy’s Vermont<br />
Christmas Trees.<br />
Duffy Gardner, who said he is<br />
“middle aged,” is the youngest<br />
of five sons of Dave and the late<br />
JoAnn Gardner. The Gardners,<br />
including sons Daniel, Donald,<br />
Doug, Dean and Duffy, are<br />
known locally for the family’s<br />
entrepreneurial spirit.<br />
In the 1970s, there was the<br />
Farmer in the Dell nursery<br />
school run by JoAnn Gardner.<br />
About the same time, the couple<br />
opened a summer camp for<br />
kids—located in their backyard<br />
and at local beaches around Lake<br />
Hopatcong—teaching kids how<br />
to swim and how to paddle a<br />
canoe.<br />
Later, the DG Driving School<br />
was added, which is now run by<br />
middle son Doug Gardner. It is<br />
not an exaggeration to say that<br />
generations of Mount Arlington<br />
kids learned something from<br />
the Gardners—the alphabet,<br />
how to swim, how to paddle a<br />
canoe or how to drive.<br />
In addition to water-based<br />
activities, a critical part of<br />
attending the Gardners’<br />
summer day camp—and being<br />
a member of the family—was<br />
pitching in with the patriarch’s<br />
extensive gardens and helping<br />
with his brood of chickens.<br />
Gardner<br />
carries a tree<br />
for longtime<br />
customer<br />
Mary Tresca.<br />
Story by BONNIE-LYNN NADZEIKA<br />
Campers—and sons—planted seeds, picked<br />
vegetables and collected eggs.<br />
Duffy Gardner recalled gardening with his<br />
father at a young age. “I remember standing on a<br />
milk crate next to my dad seeding tomatoes with<br />
a Dolly Parton 8-track going. I was Daddy’s little<br />
helper. As an adolescent I rebelled, then at 18 or<br />
19 I came back to it,” he said.<br />
Deciding he wanted to be an organic vegetable<br />
farmer, Gardner did an apprenticeship in New<br />
Jersey. After graduating high school in 1990, he<br />
moved to Vermont where the land was cheaper.<br />
“I wanted to be out in the sticks,” he said. His<br />
dedication to organic farming even led him to<br />
use a mule team over a motorized tractor.<br />
Gardner said farming was an “obsession” for<br />
15 years. He specialized in salad greens, which<br />
were not as popular then as they are now, he said.<br />
But 20 years ago he opted for a change.<br />
He apprenticed with stonemasons, learning<br />
from and working with a restoration mason<br />
and a dry mason (using stacked stones without<br />
mortar), before going out on his own. “I found<br />
the seasonality mimicked what I was used to in<br />
farming,” Gardner said.<br />
Early on in his life in Vermont, he got involved<br />
with Christmas trees as a way to offset the slack in<br />
farming and then masonry. Those first few years<br />
were physically demanding, he said. Working at<br />
a tree farm, a typical day included a trek deep<br />
into the woods where he and his coworkers<br />
would cut trees, drag them back to the truck and<br />
bail them for transport.<br />
“It was hard work of cutting and schlepping,”<br />
said Gardner.<br />
He decided that maybe selling Christmas<br />
trees might be easier than cutting and hauling<br />
them. In the mid 1990s, he partnered with<br />
the owner of a Vermont tree farm. He took<br />
100 trees on speculation and headed back to<br />
Mount Arlington. He asked Davy Ferrara, who<br />
owns Davy’s Hot Dogs and Grill on Howard<br />
Boulevard, if he could sell the trees from his<br />
parking lot. Ferrara instead suggested he use his<br />
parents’ large property, located just up the hill.<br />
Beau and Silvia Ferrara hosted Duffy’s Vermont<br />
Christmas Trees for 15 years.<br />
“I couldn’t have done it without them,”<br />
Gardner said.<br />
He also gives credit to his family for keeping<br />
the tree sale tradition alive, setting up the<br />
scaffolding and lights just in time for the tree<br />
delivery. When the truck needs unloading,<br />
he said, whoever is around helps, including<br />
Gardner’s dad, now in his 80s.<br />
After nearly three decades of working the<br />
tree lot, nieces, nephews and neighborhood<br />
kids also play a role, said brother Dean<br />
Gardner.<br />
“We unbind the trees, set them up and<br />
Duffy prices them,” he said, adding, “Duffy is<br />
at the lot all the time, but the rest of us help
out when we can.”<br />
Duffy Gardner himself said, “the best part<br />
of selling Christmas trees is the opportunity to<br />
come back to Mount Arlington and spend time<br />
with family and reconnect with old friends.”<br />
Dean Gardner agreed and said it is a time for the<br />
brothers, who all live locally, to reconnect.<br />
“Originally, we had a barrel fire that we cooked<br />
dinner over. Now we grab a pizza or takeout<br />
and maybe a beverage or two,” Dean said with<br />
a laugh.<br />
In 2010, Gardner moved his operation across<br />
the street to the Lake Hopatcong Elks Lodge,<br />
due to issues caused be a high-water table on<br />
the Ferrara property. He now calls Elks members<br />
Mike Clark and Madelyn Walrod the godparents<br />
of the operation.<br />
“People don’t understand all of the hard work<br />
that Mike and Madelyn do behind the scenes,”<br />
said Gardner. The Elks receive a percentage<br />
of tree sales, which goes directly to support<br />
charitable initiatives that benefit local families<br />
during the holidays.<br />
“The element of giving back to the community<br />
is really important to me,” he said.<br />
Many of Gardner’s buyers are now secondgeneration<br />
local families, and for some longtime<br />
residents, buying trees from Duffy Gardner is<br />
just another Christmas tradition.<br />
Kara Wachtler grew up in Mount Arlington,<br />
and her parents bought trees from Gardner<br />
when she was a child. Now Wachtler brings her<br />
husband and four young children to the Elks<br />
parking lot to pick out trees.<br />
“He is just so nice,” she said of Gardner,<br />
adding, “he’s like a character from a Hallmark<br />
Christmas movie.” In 2021 the family bought<br />
two trees, letting their 5-year-old pick out his<br />
own small tree that he proudly carried over his<br />
shoulder.<br />
Denise (Crance) Stanford remembers her<br />
first connection to the Gardner family. She<br />
took swimming lessons from Daniel Gardner.<br />
Stanford, deciding to patronize the local<br />
Christmas tree lot in Mount Arlington, was<br />
excited to know her trees were coming from<br />
someone in the Gardner family.<br />
She recalled a year her family was planning a<br />
Christmas celebration on December 26 at the<br />
Mount Arlington Fire Department. Stanford<br />
asked Gardner if she could pick up a tree after<br />
Christmas for the event. Replying that the trees<br />
would all be gone by then, he gifted the Crance<br />
family their tree. Typically, the lot sells out well<br />
before Christmas, said Gardner.<br />
“I think he was touched by our family getting<br />
together to celebrate,” Stanford said.<br />
For Gardner, the tree lot is about family.<br />
“Connecting with my family. Seeing families,<br />
sometimes second-generation [families], come<br />
to buy trees is what drives what I do,” Gardner<br />
said. Told that he was regarded by some as a<br />
character right out of a Hallmark Christmas<br />
movie, he laughed and said, “maybe I do play<br />
the part up a bit.”<br />
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E. Louise Childs Library Gets By with<br />
a Little Help from Its ‘Friends’<br />
Story by MELISSA SUMMERS<br />
Photo by KAREN FUCITO<br />
One of Sussex County’s most valuable<br />
and often overlooked public resources is<br />
expanding its offerings and looking for some new<br />
“friends.”<br />
Supporters of the E. Louise Childs Library<br />
in Stanhope want the community to know that<br />
the branch, which is part of the Sussex County<br />
Library System, is more than just a place for<br />
books, magazines, and CDs or DVDs. Visitors<br />
can also borrow a computer, a movie projector, an<br />
ice cream maker, a bocce ball set, or even a ukulele.<br />
All of those things and more were provided to<br />
the libraries in a combined effort by the Sussex<br />
County Library System and its volunteers and are<br />
available at any one of their six branches.<br />
The Friends of E. Louise Childs aren’t stopping<br />
there. Established four years ago, they are<br />
emerging from the shutdowns and restrictions of<br />
the pandemic to recruit members and bring even<br />
more programming and services to the library<br />
through sponsorship and donations. Mona<br />
Phillips, of Hopatcong, serves as president of the<br />
Board members<br />
Mona Phillips,<br />
Ida Brown, Carol<br />
Gingerelli and<br />
Beverly Dandurand-<br />
Richardson.<br />
Friends of E. Louise Childs Library.<br />
Constructed in 1981, E. Louise Childs serves<br />
the communities of Hopatcong, Stanhope,<br />
Byram and parts of Andover, according to Branch<br />
Librarian, Regina Bohn.<br />
“The Sussex Main Library provides a budget for<br />
each of their libraries,” explained Mona Phillips,<br />
president of Friends of E. Louise Childs Library.<br />
If the library system or one of the branches wants<br />
something that exceeds their budget, they are<br />
dependent on outside contributions. “We’re here<br />
to help provide those things through fundraising<br />
and membership,” Phillips said.<br />
The Friends of E. Louise Childs Library are<br />
the third such group to represent a local branch<br />
in Sussex County. Both the Dorothy E. Henry<br />
Library and the Sussex-Wantage Library also have<br />
support from Friends groups.<br />
“In 2018, the library system was putting<br />
together a strategic plan,” said Bohn. “They hired<br />
consultants who had a meeting at each branch.”<br />
According to Bohn, the Childs library had the<br />
biggest turnout.<br />
When Phillips heard during the meeting that<br />
her local branch did not have a Friends group, she<br />
volunteered on the spot.<br />
“I couldn’t understand. If<br />
they want to do it, why don’t<br />
they do it?” she recalled.<br />
“People wanted things for the<br />
library. I said, ‘Anyone got a<br />
piece of paper and a pen? Well,<br />
sign up. Put your name on it.’”<br />
“Will Porter, our director,<br />
was there that night,” Bohn<br />
recalled of the meeting. “I<br />
remember Will telling me he’s<br />
been in the library business a<br />
long time and never saw a Friends group come<br />
together so fast. I have to give all that credit to<br />
Mona.”<br />
Phillips sprang into action immediately,<br />
reaching out to community contacts. One of the<br />
first groups she honed in on was the Hopatcong<br />
Seniors, a group always looking for ways to help<br />
the community.<br />
“Mona started her research that night, and she<br />
called me up and said she needed to speak to<br />
the seniors at the next senior meeting,” said Ida<br />
Brown, current vice president of the Friends of E.<br />
Louise Childs Library. She made sure Phillips was<br />
on the agenda so she could share her plans.<br />
According to Phillips, writing is the most<br />
important part of establishing an organization.<br />
Brown was an important piece of the puzzle. “I<br />
can plan something, and I have a vision, but a<br />
wordsmith really knows how to use words and<br />
that’s Ida.”<br />
At the initial meeting that November at the<br />
Childs branch, interested supporters discussed<br />
what they could do for the library and the<br />
community, Brown said. They also elected Carol<br />
Gingerelli as treasurer and Beverly Dandurand-<br />
Richardson as secretary, positions they still hold.<br />
With officers and bylaws in place—and some<br />
pro bono help from local attorney Racquel<br />
Hiben—Friends of E. Louise Childs Library<br />
became a 501(c)(3) and began fundraising.<br />
“We had no money,” Brown said. “Little by little,<br />
with promotional materials about membership,<br />
we went out to our community, we went out to<br />
the schools and families and we put promotional<br />
materials in the library.” They promoted their<br />
quarterly meetings and offered information on<br />
everything available to library patrons.<br />
In the last few years, the Friends have gifted<br />
items to support the library and have sponsored<br />
a variety of programming. Thanks to the Friends,<br />
the library offers patrons free family passes to<br />
three local museums: the Morris Museum, the<br />
Newark Museum and the Montclair Art Museum.<br />
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Regina Bohn and<br />
Barbara Crosson<br />
prepare books for<br />
the library's first<br />
book fair in August.<br />
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Left: Sompit Kumpoyai from Twist on Thai Cafe,<br />
helps James Farrell shape a dumpling.<br />
Above: From Twist on Thai Cafe, Patcharin "Ploy"<br />
Davis, Kumpoyai, Nube Ortiz and Norma Sudak.<br />
Photos courtesy of Mona Phillips
The group also purchased a Lego table for the<br />
children’s section, a mahjong set and dividers for<br />
the meeting room.<br />
The organization has presented a classic movie<br />
series at the library, according to Phillips, and also<br />
started a monthly discussion group, which last<br />
met in 2020.<br />
“A topic is chosen, and we sit around a table<br />
and discuss it. The last thing we discussed was<br />
COVID,” she noted with a chuckle.<br />
Like most other public services, the library was<br />
closed during the pandemic, putting many of the<br />
organization’s programs on hold.<br />
In October of this year, the group resumed its<br />
culinary series with Taste of Thai.<br />
Patcharin “Ploy” Davis, owner of Twist on Thai<br />
Café in Hopatcong, held a cooking demonstration<br />
at the library and distributed recipes and samples<br />
of her Thai steamed dumplings and Thai iced tea.<br />
Phillips and her family are regular customers<br />
at the restaurant and had invited Davis to<br />
participate. “I decided to challenge myself,” Davis<br />
said of the experience. “There were a total of 27<br />
guests, plus five more on Zoom, and we absorbed<br />
the cost.”<br />
Davis had hoped attendees would try Thai food<br />
and enjoy it, then spread the word to friends and<br />
family about her restaurant—and it worked.<br />
“On the day of the event, the restaurant door<br />
opened and the very first order was from someone<br />
[who had been] in the audience and that made<br />
me so happy,” said Davis. “We ended up with six<br />
more families who also came from the event.”<br />
It’s the long-term impact that will make a<br />
difference. “We got our name out there and it’s<br />
just a matter of word of mouth,” Davis added.<br />
Chefs specializing in Indian and Venezuelan<br />
cuisine were featured in previous presentations,<br />
according to Brown. She said they’d love to<br />
expand the series to include Mexican and Jewish<br />
cuisines.<br />
One of the organization’s most recent<br />
accomplishments includes the purchase of four<br />
additional pairs of EnChroma glasses, which can<br />
alleviate symptoms of color blindness. Phillips<br />
said the Sussex County Library System had a<br />
waiting list for the four (two adult and two youth)<br />
pairs of specially engineered glasses they originally<br />
offered.<br />
“The branch librarians saw a demo by the<br />
maker, and we were sort of unsure how popular<br />
they would be, but as soon as they came in, they<br />
started going out,” Bohn said. At one point there<br />
were 12 holds on the adult pairs.<br />
Phillips believes the addition of four more adult<br />
pairs of glasses, available to all patrons of the<br />
Sussex County Library system, will fulfill a vital<br />
need in the community. They include two pairs<br />
designed for indoor use and two for outdoor use.<br />
One in 12 men and one in 200 women are color<br />
blind, according to EnChroma.<br />
“Maybe they are going on vacation, maybe they<br />
are going bird watching or on a hike at this time<br />
of year with all the colors,” Bohn said. “Maybe<br />
they are going to the city to see the Metropolitan<br />
Museum of Art, and they want to see what this art<br />
really looks like.”<br />
“It’s a big investment. People get to put them<br />
on, see if they like what they are seeing and how<br />
they are seeing it and see if it’s something they’d<br />
like to do, before shelling out money for them,”<br />
Phillips said of the glasses, which can cost more<br />
than $300 a pair.<br />
Fundraising events at the library are ongoing,<br />
including the Friends’ first-ever book sale, held<br />
this year in August. “People come in and buy a<br />
used book, and we use the money to buy more,”<br />
said Phillips.<br />
“We estimated that we had about 3,000 books<br />
here and we raised $700,” Brown added. “The<br />
books were going for as little as 10 cents each.”<br />
Roxbury Public Library took many of the books<br />
that were left over for their own sale and promised<br />
to help with contributions when E. Louise Childs<br />
holds their next sale, Brown added.<br />
Friends board members are also welcoming<br />
young local artists to participate in a unique<br />
opportunity. To thank Hiben for her pro bono<br />
help, the Friends hold a yearly art contest in the<br />
local attorney’s name. “This was put on hold<br />
due to COVID, but now that we’re back, we<br />
are looking for a logo for our organization,” said<br />
Brown.<br />
The logo contest is open to any Sussex County<br />
student from kindergarten through high school.<br />
The board, with help from Bohn, will choose the<br />
winner and award a $100 prize. The school art<br />
department where the student attends will also<br />
receive $100, according to Brown.<br />
The Friends are also looking forward to a<br />
children’s holiday program they are planning for<br />
December. “We saved Christmas and Hannukah<br />
books from the book sale,” Brown said. “Each kid<br />
will be able to pick a book to go home with, as a<br />
gift from the Friends of the Library.”<br />
They’ll also have holiday story time, Phillips<br />
said.<br />
The Friends of E. Louise Childs Library has<br />
over 100 members, with a one-time membership<br />
fee starting at $1 for students, $5 for regular<br />
memberships or $10 for family memberships.<br />
Although the vast majority of members are<br />
seniors, the organization is constantly striving to<br />
expand.<br />
“We would like to attract the younger mothers<br />
and fathers. We are here to provide for them, but<br />
it’s hard to get them involved with their busy<br />
lives,” Phillips said.<br />
Brown said they are always looking for new<br />
members, business or corporate sponsors and<br />
always welcome monetary donations. “It’s the end<br />
of the year. If you’d like a tax deduction, this is the<br />
perfect place to do it,” she said.<br />
For more information about the<br />
Friends of E. Louise Childs Library email<br />
friendselouisechildslib@gmail.com.<br />
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Racing Down the Runway to Raise Money<br />
Story by ELLEN WILKOWE<br />
Photos by KAREN FUCITO<br />
There was more foot traffic than air traffic<br />
as more than 200 runners took off on<br />
the runway at Aeroflex-Andover Airport in<br />
Andover, led by a bright yellow Piper Cub<br />
aircraft that soared into the air, providing racers<br />
an extra burst of adrenaline.<br />
This was by no means an ordinary race. The<br />
combination 5K and fundraiser—Fly Like<br />
Kylie—was held in honor of Kylie Murray, a<br />
21-year-old pilot from Illinois who died in a<br />
plane crash on July 31, 2021, while giving a<br />
lesson.<br />
The 5K was organized by Murray’s New<br />
Jersey-based aunt and uncle, Matt and<br />
Katherine Van Wolput of Oak Ridge, who<br />
wanted to do something in her memory. A race<br />
at the airport seemed like the ideal fit.<br />
Event proceeds will go towards the Kylie<br />
Murray Memorial Flight Training Scholarship.<br />
Established last year by Murray's parents,<br />
Geoff and Lisa Murray, the scholarship helps<br />
accelerate the flight training of a like-minded<br />
high school female.<br />
“This was her passion,” said Matt Van Wolput.<br />
The fundraiser’s other purpose was to shine<br />
a spotlight on women in aviation. The Van<br />
Wolputs did just that by constructing a fun<br />
facts poster for runners to peruse on their walk<br />
down from the parking lot to the starting line.<br />
Some of the facts listed are as follows:<br />
For every 100 male pilots, there are only six<br />
women.<br />
There are 713 female pilots in the U.S., or<br />
5.6 percent.<br />
The first woman to receive a pilot’s license<br />
was in France in 1910.<br />
A passion for flying has earned other members<br />
of the Van Wolput family their wings.<br />
Murray’s father, Geoff Murray, is a pilot for<br />
United Airlines as well as a flight instructor.<br />
Her brother, Ryan, is an engineer for United.<br />
And it has been almost 10 years since Matt<br />
Van Wolput decided to go airborne and earn<br />
his pilot’s license for Piper Cubs, as well. This<br />
was after hearing stories from his wife about her<br />
brother, Geoff Murray, flying them to Maine<br />
when they were young.<br />
“It sparked my interest,” he said.<br />
Much like her father, Kylie Murray took<br />
to the skies early, earning her pilot and flight<br />
instructor’s licenses when she was just 17, the<br />
minimum age allowed.<br />
Race participants sprint down<br />
the runway at Aeroflex-Andover<br />
Airport as a Piper Cup aircraft<br />
buzzes above.<br />
She started teaching in May 2021 at Cub Air<br />
Flight in Hartford, Wisconsin. Her favorite<br />
planes were Piper Cubs, which are tandem low<br />
power—between 65-85 horsepower—aircraft.<br />
Murray was scouted by United Airlines and<br />
Cirrus Aircraft for jobs, but she followed her<br />
heart, which led her to teaching instead.<br />
She was a licensed flight instructor and had<br />
just received a commercial pilot license for<br />
single-engine land and seaplanes at the time of<br />
her death.<br />
“She was a badass,” Matt Van Wolput said.<br />
“The whole thought of United chasing her<br />
down and she’s like, ‘I just want to teach.’”<br />
Murray was working toward her degree in<br />
aviation management at Auburn University and<br />
was set to graduate in December 2021.<br />
“She was an accomplished pilot, no doubt,”<br />
Van Wolput said.<br />
Accomplished yes, and humble about it, too,<br />
said his wife, and Murray’s aunt. “She could be<br />
the most accomplished person in the room and<br />
would not say a word about it,” she said.<br />
Personality-wise, Murray exuded a positive<br />
and bright energy, Katherine Van Wolput said.<br />
“She was very accepting, and people were drawn<br />
to this young woman. She was gorgeous and<br />
had this welcoming warm outgoing personality<br />
that made you want to hang out with her.”<br />
Despite the distance of several<br />
states, Murray and the Van<br />
Kylie Murray in 2021.<br />
Photo courtesy of the Murray family.<br />
Matt and Katherine Van Wolput<br />
on race day.<br />
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Damien DelGaizo pilots a Piper Cub that leads racers<br />
down the runway at Aeroflex-Andover Airport.
Wolputs’ middle daughter, Gracie, were each<br />
other’s “besties,” Katherine Van Wolput said.<br />
The last time the Van Wolputs saw their<br />
niece was in June 2021, about a month before<br />
her accident. The family came together for an<br />
engagement party for the Van Wolputs’ oldest<br />
daughter, Nina.<br />
With the different schedules that come with<br />
raising families, plus the long distance between<br />
them, the Murrays and the Van Wolputs were<br />
not afforded as much time together as they<br />
would have liked.<br />
That is why Katherine Van Wolput will<br />
always hold the last time she saw Murray close<br />
to her heart.<br />
“It was hands-down better than imagined,”<br />
she said.<br />
Murray was fresh off landing her seaplane<br />
license and flew in with her father from Alaska<br />
for the engagement party.<br />
“Kylie stayed for an extra day, and I am<br />
grateful for that,” Van Wolput said.<br />
She was equally grateful for the community<br />
that banded together in honor of Murray.<br />
Many race participants were students from the<br />
Van Wolputs’ business, the Oak Ridge Martial<br />
Arts Academy, which sponsored the race.<br />
She sang equal praises about Aeroflex-<br />
Andover Airport, which rose to the occasion in<br />
more ways than one. Owner Damien DelGaizo<br />
flew the yellow Piper Cub that led racers down<br />
the runway and into the first leg of their race.<br />
The crisp autumn morning brought out<br />
racers ranging in age from small children to<br />
seniors. The children participated in their own<br />
shorter run prior to the adult 5K but still got<br />
to experience the rush of running on a runway.<br />
In addressing the runners prior to the race,<br />
Matt Van Wolput emphasized the importance<br />
of creating awareness regarding aviation<br />
possibilities for younger generations, like<br />
Murray’s.<br />
He also gave a shout-out to Experimental<br />
Aviation Association Chapter 891, The Sussex<br />
EAAgles, which provides flight experiences<br />
for children ages 8-17, as well as adults. The<br />
EAA also provides Angel Flights for financially<br />
challenged people who require medical<br />
transportation. The association also participates<br />
in the transport of animals from kill shelters to<br />
no-kill facilities.<br />
Katherine Van Wolput stressed that all<br />
proceeds, excluding race costs and materials,<br />
would go directly to funding the Kylie Murray<br />
Memorial Flight Training Scholarship.<br />
“Our business is not taking any stipend or<br />
pay from the proceeds,” she said.<br />
Still flying high from the race’s success, Van<br />
Wolput remained undecided about making it<br />
an annual event.<br />
“Nothing can top this,” she said.<br />
To date, the Van Wolputs have raised $23,300<br />
for the scholarship fund.<br />
To learn more or to donate to the Kylie Murray<br />
Memorial Flight Training Scholarship, go to<br />
www.eaa.org/KylieMurray.<br />
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I AM I AM I AM<br />
LOCAL<br />
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Christina Alessi said she was “painfully shy as a kid.” It came as quite a surprise to her family when<br />
she got involved in the music program at Roxbury High School and performed in front of an<br />
audience. Her first performance in the high school auditorium had her hooked though, and she<br />
credits former and longtime Choir Director Lori Lynch for encouraging her to take music seriously.<br />
“I’ve been chasing that feeling ever since,” said the 45-year-old.<br />
WHERE DO YOU LIVE AND WHO MAKES UP YOUR FAMILY?<br />
I moved to Mt. Tabor from Bloomfield with my son and two dogs a couple of years ago. My parents still live in Roxbury, as does my brother<br />
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DO YOU MAKE A LIVING OUT OF PLAYING MUSIC? IF NOT, WHAT IS YOUR FULL-TIME PROFESSION?<br />
I play music part time. I also make art part time. My full-time job is with a small financial firm,<br />
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The Toll Collectors typically perform as a band or trio twice a month in the spring,<br />
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Honestly, my music community. I know so many folks who are hustling day in<br />
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James Wynne leads rehearsal.<br />
The Jefferson Township Community<br />
Chorus during a recent rehearsal.<br />
Community Chorus Hits<br />
All the High Notes<br />
There’s no place like home for the holidays<br />
and what better way to celebrate the season<br />
than by listening to the Jefferson Township<br />
Community Chorus sing Christmas songs<br />
written by composers such as George Frideric<br />
Handel and Gustav Holst.<br />
The chorus will be one of the featured<br />
performers at the 16th annual Christmas in<br />
the Village celebration on Saturday, December<br />
3. The day-long event is co-hosted by the<br />
Jefferson Arts Committee and the Jefferson<br />
Township Historical Society and includes tours<br />
of the museum, a marketplace and live music at<br />
multiple locations in the Milton section of the<br />
township. The Jefferson Township Community<br />
Chorus will perform at St. Gabriel’s Episcopal<br />
Church on Milton Road at 1:20 p.m.<br />
Before the concert, however, ’tis the season<br />
for practice, practice, practice. Choral Director<br />
James Wynne, 71, who plays piano while<br />
rehearsing the passages, said a favorite part of<br />
his job is “the path to getting to the finished<br />
product.”<br />
The <strong>2022</strong> Christmas repertoire includes<br />
traditional numbers such as “Have Yourself a<br />
Merry Little Christmas,” “Christmastime” and<br />
“’Tis The Season.”<br />
For the choral members, it’s the preparation<br />
that counts.<br />
“Rome was not built in a day,” said Wynne,<br />
after listening to different parts of the chorus<br />
group labor through a complicated passage<br />
during an October practice. “We’ll get there.”<br />
Wynne’s confidence and his easygoing style<br />
helped chorus members get through two of<br />
the more difficult pieces: “I Saw Three Ships,”<br />
arranged by Craig Curry and “Maoz Tsur<br />
(Rock of Ages),” arranged by Ross Fishman.<br />
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Admittedly, each are complicated compositions<br />
that are musically sophisticated and not standard<br />
fare.<br />
“It’s the arrangement that matters,” explained<br />
Wynne.<br />
Formed in April of 2001 by the Jefferson<br />
Arts Committee and with the help of Margaret<br />
Brandel and Janet Breckenridge (now deceased),<br />
the chorus has been a staple in the<br />
community ever since, performing<br />
its holiday concert and holding an<br />
annual spring concert at Our Lady<br />
Star of the Sea Roman Catholic<br />
Church in the Lake Hopatcong<br />
section of the township.<br />
The Jefferson Township<br />
Community Chorus currently has<br />
30 members, but recruitment is an<br />
important part of Wynne’s job, he<br />
said. Anyone can join, Wynne said,<br />
but there is one requirement—a<br />
love of singing.<br />
After a summer hiatus, the<br />
chorus began rehearsing in<br />
September, meeting every Tuesday night at<br />
Jefferson Township High School. Wynne has the<br />
group set up as expected: sopranos on his left,<br />
altos on the right and tenors, baritones and bass<br />
in the center.<br />
For Isabelle Brennan, a soprano, the love of<br />
singing brought her to the group.<br />
“I love learning about music, too,” said the<br />
Lake Hopatcong resident. “Each practice is a<br />
mini music theory class.”<br />
Bonnie Huebner, who sings soprano and hails<br />
from Lake Shawnee, said her church does not<br />
have a choir and this group gives her a chance<br />
to participate in something she loves. She said<br />
she also enjoys meeting other people who like<br />
to sing.<br />
At 21, Giselle Gonzales, a soprano, is one of<br />
the youngest members of the group. She was a<br />
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in the soprano section.<br />
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singer in the Rutgers University choir while in<br />
college and is currently a cantor at Our Lady<br />
Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church. “I<br />
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“We have a lot of dedicated members, and<br />
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64, the chorus librarian. Tarighi has been a
member since the beginning. Like Gonzales,<br />
she is also a cantor at Our Lady Star of the Sea<br />
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Tarighi said her duties as chorus librarian<br />
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The Story of Christmas Comes to Life in Mo<br />
Story by ELLEN WILKOWE<br />
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While shepherds tended to their animals,<br />
more than 800 people packed into the<br />
parking lot in Mount Arlington to witness the<br />
church’s annual live nativity celebration.<br />
The crisp December evening last year afforded<br />
a clear star-studded sky that was in sync with<br />
the star-studded stage. The waxing moon and<br />
inviting fire pits only added to the Christmas<br />
spirit emanating from the audience.<br />
Welcome to the annual Live Nativity<br />
celebration at Times Square Church North<br />
Jersey Campus in Mount Arlington.<br />
“The show will begin in 10 minutes. Please<br />
take your seats and remain in them as actors and<br />
live animals will come through,” Lisa Guice, the<br />
director, said through a microphone.<br />
Meanwhile, the Rev. Brad Guice, Lisa’s<br />
husband, checked the staging area in final<br />
preparation of a show that held all the hallmarks<br />
of a Broadway musical production, with a<br />
live band, multiple sets, professional lighting<br />
and elaborate costumes. And, as the audience<br />
continued to filter through, Bonnie Huebner, in<br />
the role of a shepherd, handed out programs to<br />
attendees.<br />
A resident of Lake Shawnee, Huebner and her<br />
husband, Stephen, joined the church in 2016,<br />
the same year the nativity celebration started.<br />
“We moved here from Bergen County and just<br />
drove by it (the church),” she said. A month<br />
later they were members and immediately began<br />
helping “behind the scenes” with the nativity<br />
production, said Huebner.<br />
Now entering its sixth year, the Live Nativity<br />
is the culmination of efforts put forth by the<br />
Guices, who were originally members of the<br />
flagship Times Square Church in New York<br />
City. The Mount Arlington location opened in<br />
2013 and is often referred to as the North Jersey<br />
satellite campus.<br />
The Guices credit the congregants of both<br />
churches for making the large-scale production<br />
come to life. And the live animals make the<br />
45-minute story of the birth of Jesus that<br />
much more real. The story ties the biblical<br />
past to the present as it is told through the<br />
eyes of a grandfather who is speaking to his<br />
granddaughters in a living room setting.<br />
The church hosts four shows over two days<br />
in early December. Admission is free and all<br />
shows are performed in the church parking lot,<br />
weather permitting.<br />
So, what goes into producing a Broadwaystyle<br />
musical of a live nativity? For one, a<br />
lengthy list of contacts.<br />
“We have a lot of talent at our campus,” said<br />
Guice.<br />
As for the performers? All are members of both<br />
congregations including the ushers, security and<br />
stage crew.<br />
“Nobody had to audition,” Guice said. “We<br />
would collaborate as to who would make a great<br />
angel and so forth. It’s amazing how God always<br />
provides and that all the slots that were open<br />
got filled.”<br />
Center stage aside, the show could not go on<br />
without the labor put forth by those working<br />
behind the scenes.<br />
Enter Jim Stopa, proprietor of Stopa General<br />
Contracting in Wharton. Guice refers to him<br />
as the “very gifted and talented contractor”<br />
because of his role in helping construct the set<br />
alongside her husband. The set consists of a view<br />
of a living room, the front of an inn, a barn and<br />
stage. A live band is set up to the left of the stage.<br />
“In the beginning we built [the set] in a<br />
few nights before the production and first<br />
performance,” Brad Guice said. “We took logs<br />
right out of the woods nearby and then got the<br />
rest of the supplies<br />
at Home Depot.”<br />
And after those first few performances, the set<br />
would be dismantled. The nativity was originally<br />
built with a one-and-done mindset, said Guice.<br />
“When he [Jim] originally built the first set, we<br />
were just going to do it that first year and weren’t<br />
going to do it annually,” said Guice. “But the<br />
community responded positively.<br />
“It became a tradition for our congregation, and<br />
it’s a really nice time of the year where we all come<br />
together. It’s fun and exhausting but a good kind of<br />
exhausting,” added Guice.<br />
Most of the props constructed from the first<br />
year are still being used. The costumes—they<br />
are authentic and elaborate—are handmade by<br />
the talents in the congregation, with a few of the<br />
costumes coming from the church in New York.<br />
This past October, the Guices were gearing up for<br />
recasting. Meanwhile, Rafael Ruppert, an elder and<br />
worship leader with the Mount Arlington church<br />
who assumes the role of musical director for this<br />
production, was thinking ahead to organizing the<br />
musical ensemble for November rehearsals.<br />
“Instead of the choir, we have an ensemble and<br />
a full band, when possible,” said the Hackettstown<br />
resident.<br />
On the musical front, Ruppert tweaked the songs<br />
from the very first performance so they would sync<br />
up with the current production’s dialogue.<br />
One such arrangement, “Be Born in Me,” is sung<br />
by Mary while she, Joseph and a donkey<br />
walk around the parking lot, through<br />
the audience and onto the set. Last year,<br />
Joseph and Mary were played by husband<br />
and wife Andrew and Bridgette Beach of<br />
Glen Gardner. This year, Andrew Beach<br />
is set to resume the role of Joseph and<br />
Anna Dilena from New York City will<br />
play Mary.<br />
Another song, “We Three Kings,”<br />
reinforced the gift of the Son of God to<br />
his people. “But we also give him our<br />
The set: the living room, the Bethlehem Inn, the barn.<br />
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unt Arlington<br />
gifts—our hearts and affection,” Ruppert said.<br />
Longtime members of the New York City<br />
location, Ruppert and his family had established<br />
a friendship with the Guices before opening the<br />
satellite church in Mount Arlington.<br />
“I believe that God led us to the north Jersey<br />
area,” said Ruppert, a former Hopatcong resident.<br />
The family atmosphere of the Mount Arlington<br />
location provided more opportunity for his thenyounger<br />
children to socialize with peers their age<br />
and enjoy the intimacy of a room full of 120 people<br />
rather than an auditorium of 1,200. The satellite<br />
church also bodes well for a live nativity, he said,<br />
something not possible at the New York City<br />
location.<br />
“The whole point of the presentation is really to<br />
communicate the main meaning of Christmas,” he<br />
said. “It’s not about the gifts except the greatest gift<br />
of all, that the Son of God came to rescue us from<br />
our sins.”<br />
Another purpose of the show is to bring the<br />
community together, Ruppert added. In staying<br />
true to the original presentation, the show has<br />
become a tradition for the attendees, he said.<br />
Putting a different kind of live in live nativity<br />
are the four-legged performers, particularly the<br />
sheep and donkey. The farm animals, which are<br />
provided by Hidden Pastures Luxury Fiber Farm<br />
in Branchville, have provided their own form of<br />
drama in the past, said Lisa Guice, especially the<br />
donkeys. “One year the donkey got very sick,”<br />
she said. “And another year, the donkey got<br />
agitated, and we had to use a mini horse to walk<br />
around with Mary and Joseph.”<br />
In reviewing past performances, Brad Guice<br />
marvels at how the production has grown<br />
throughout the years.<br />
“Word has gotten out about it and that warms<br />
our heart,” he said. “We’re not even that big of<br />
a church and for us to produce an event like<br />
this…it’s like God has brought all the right<br />
people to pull it off.”<br />
It helps to have professionals like the<br />
Monteleone family as members of the church.<br />
Andie Monteleone is a former cast member<br />
of Broadway’s “Cats” and “Chicago.” She<br />
helped direct the show for the first four years.<br />
Her husband, actor Chris Monteleone who<br />
performed in Broadway’s “Beauty and Beast,”<br />
played a starring role in the nativity as the<br />
original grandfather during the first year<br />
and will assume the role again this year. The<br />
Monteleones live in Mount Olive.<br />
The performances are always at the mercy of<br />
the weather and up until last year, nature has<br />
fully cooperated, Lisa Guice said. The threat of<br />
rain prior to the 8 p.m. production on Saturday<br />
last year forced a last-minute relocation from<br />
the parking lot into the sanctuary. According to<br />
Brad Guice, the production company hired to<br />
handle lighting and sound backed out due to<br />
concerns over equipment being exposed to the<br />
elements.<br />
However, the show must—and did—go on.<br />
“We had only a few hours to spare and did<br />
the production inside,” he said. “I had to turn<br />
people away, and it was standing room only<br />
with 300 people in the sanctuary for both<br />
performances.”<br />
The threat of rain aside, last year’s attendance<br />
for all four performances was somewhere<br />
between 1,200 to 1,800 people, said Lisa.<br />
In advertising the production, the Guices rely<br />
on social media, roadside signs and good oldfashioned<br />
word of mouth.<br />
What sets apart the Times Square’s production<br />
from other live nativities is the theatrical<br />
element, Brad Guice said. “It’s a performance.<br />
People come and sit down, and we tell the<br />
story of the birth of Jesus so that people really<br />
understand the foundation of Christmas and<br />
what it’s all about.”<br />
This year’s shows are scheduled for Saturday,<br />
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and 7 p.m. each day.<br />
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Aaron Sawicki at<br />
the piano during a<br />
recent service.<br />
Barbara McShane<br />
examines a cotton<br />
tablecloth displaying<br />
signatures of past<br />
members that her<br />
mother helped stitch.<br />
The Rev. Sue Jung Shin at the altar.<br />
Hurdtown United Methodist Church on Route 15.<br />
Hurdtown Church Reaches Milestone Anniversary<br />
On a recent fall Sunday, sunlight filled the<br />
interior of the small white Hurdtown<br />
United Methodist Church. High above the<br />
altar, a dove flew toward the sun against a blue<br />
sky in the only stained-glass window in this<br />
house of worship. Outside, cars flew by on<br />
Route 15 South, many drivers hardly noticing<br />
the 150-year-old white building and its bell<br />
tower.<br />
The church interior is unassuming. The<br />
walls are painted a spare white, with simple<br />
wainscoting, also white. The pews and floor<br />
are oak.<br />
The five Palladian windows could be featured<br />
in any home or office. The altar cross is plain<br />
and unadorned. While the church structure is<br />
simple, the 20 or so people of all ages attending<br />
that recent Sunday service are part of a rich and<br />
active community.<br />
The Rev. Sue Jung Shin leads the congregation,<br />
which has 191 registered members but typically<br />
sees about two dozen in the pews on Sundays.<br />
She began serving this church and the Lake<br />
Hopatcong United Methodist Church—both<br />
located in Jefferson—in June <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Shin earned a master’s degree in theology from<br />
Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington<br />
D.C. and a doctorate in biblical studies from<br />
Drew University. This marks her first pastoral<br />
assignment. “The people are very devoted, and<br />
this is a committed congregation,” Shin said.<br />
The service is filled with hymns familiar to<br />
many Christian congregations ranging from<br />
“Morning Has Broken” to “Here I Am, Lord.”<br />
Every Sunday features a children’s lesson asking<br />
questions of young participants. On a recent<br />
Sunday, the question was: “What does the<br />
Lord require of you?” This was followed by a<br />
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discussion about St. Francis of Assisi.<br />
As parishioner Grace Bordonaro asked the<br />
children about St. Francis, young Ling Chen<br />
asked, “B.C. or A.D.?” Not a typical child’s<br />
question, but well received.<br />
Indeed, Shin’s sermon that morning was<br />
about the Old Testament Prophet Isaiah whose<br />
image painted by Italian painter Giovanni<br />
Battista Tiepolo was featured on the cover of<br />
the church bulletin. Seeking to make the Old<br />
Testament relevant, Shin brought Isaiah to the<br />
present day with the message, “hope does not<br />
lie in politics.”<br />
On November 20, members will gather for<br />
the church’s 150th anniversary with a special<br />
service and a luncheon in the church basement.<br />
Member Bo Ferguson is coordinating the<br />
food. Members Lise Meisner, her mother Ann<br />
Meisner and Barbara McShane have been<br />
working on a new history pamphlet that will<br />
be published in time for the event.<br />
Ellen Fuchs has been working on the church<br />
history. A member for decades—she isn’t sure<br />
how many—Fuchs has been pulling together<br />
old photographs. Some show when Route<br />
15 was being built and others show standing<br />
room only at past Sunday worships. A lifelong<br />
Methodist, Fuchs said, “This is the friendliest<br />
church I’ve ever been to. You come and you are<br />
welcome.”<br />
Sue Rietzky was baptized and married at<br />
Hurdtown and her family has been part of the<br />
church for generations. Currently serving as<br />
secretary of the United Women of Faith, the<br />
church’s very active women’s group, Rietzky<br />
is one of several members to refer to the<br />
congregation as her “church family.”<br />
There are many members whose families<br />
have been part of the church for generations.<br />
The Boyd/Pascale family typically have three<br />
generations in attendance on any given Sunday.<br />
Grandmother Helen Boyd proudly showed<br />
off her daughter Becky, son-in-law Martino,<br />
and grandchildren Kira, Katrina and Matteo<br />
at a recent service. Twins Kira and Katrina<br />
are college sophomores who serve as Sunday<br />
school teachers for the youngest members of<br />
the congregation.<br />
Martino Pascale was raised in the Catholic<br />
faith but started coming to Hurdtown<br />
after marrying Becky at the church. He is<br />
enthusiastic about his adopted church, which<br />
he has attended for 30 years. “It’s nice to have<br />
a second family,” he said.<br />
While the place Hurdtown may be unfamiliar<br />
to many, particularly those outside of Jefferson<br />
Township, the name is even older than the<br />
church. At the beginning of the 19th century,<br />
Jefferson was full of small communities that<br />
were built around the local iron industry. The<br />
landscape was dotted with both mines and<br />
forges.<br />
The Hurd brothers, Daniel and Joseph,<br />
arrived in Jefferson from Randolph in 1800.<br />
By 1805 the brothers built the New Partners<br />
forge. According to W. W. Munsell’s book,<br />
“History of Morris County, New Jersey,”<br />
which was published in 1882: “Hurdtown was<br />
also at this time and before a lively place, and<br />
a considerable population was gathered about<br />
it.”<br />
The enterprising Joseph Hurd opened the<br />
first store in 1806. He also opened a distillery<br />
that was later owned by his son. The Seward<br />
Tavern served not only as a tavern but also<br />
as the courthouse. “Horse races were not<br />
infrequent,” wrote Munsell.<br />
The church was originally formed in 1827<br />
and was known as the Methodist Episcopal<br />
Church at New Partners (the same name of<br />
the Hurdtown forge). David and Eliza Hurd<br />
donated the land for the church building on
A collection of old photographs and<br />
other memorabilia on display in the<br />
church meeting room.<br />
what was then known as Union Turnpike.<br />
The original building suffered extensive water<br />
damage in 1868 and needed to be replaced.<br />
The church’s Ladies Aid Society started a<br />
building fund with $500, and the new church<br />
was dedicated on December 13, 1872.<br />
In 1939 the Episcopal was dropped, and it<br />
became The Hurdtown Methodist Church.<br />
In 1968 it took on its current name, The<br />
Hurdtown United Methodist Church.<br />
Hurdtown is not a church that only looks<br />
inward. Serving the local community is also<br />
important. As a member of the Association<br />
of Churches—an informal group of lake area<br />
churches that work together to provide and<br />
support social services—Hurdtown is home to<br />
Barbara McShane singing<br />
during a recent service.<br />
Becky and<br />
Martino<br />
Pascale<br />
hold hands<br />
during a<br />
service.<br />
The Lord’s Pantry, which began more than 40<br />
years ago. Members gather and donate most of<br />
the food themselves, making announcements<br />
on Sundays and putting out requests for<br />
specific items using the church's Facebook<br />
page.<br />
Partnering with Our Lady Star of the Sea<br />
Roman Catholic Church, Hurdtown ensures<br />
that all Jefferson residents have celebratory food<br />
for the holidays. Star of the Sea puts together<br />
and distributes baskets for Thanksgiving.<br />
Hurdtown church puts together the baskets for<br />
Christmas. Each basket has all the ingredients<br />
for a holiday meal.<br />
Behind much of the outreach and mission<br />
work of the church is the United Women<br />
of Faith. McShane, president of the group,<br />
spearheads its largest annual outreach,<br />
a school supply and backpack giveaway<br />
held each year for children going back to<br />
school.<br />
The program, which is supported by<br />
other churches, local Girl Scout troops<br />
and local businesses, has been in place<br />
since 1998 and continued during the<br />
pandemic with a drive-thru pickup. In<br />
<strong>2022</strong>, the church gave away more than<br />
150 backpacks.<br />
“The best thing is seeing the children<br />
pick out their own backpack,” said<br />
McShane.<br />
The church supports its missions,<br />
including the backpack program, through<br />
fundraisers. Recently it established an annual<br />
mini golf event and bake sale. “It’s not as<br />
time-consuming as some of the fundraisers<br />
we have had in the past, and people are very<br />
supportive,” said McShane.<br />
Following the recent fall service, church<br />
members gathered in the lobby to catch up<br />
with each other. A group of women discussed<br />
a place to go and have lunch. Others discussed<br />
the upcoming anniversary celebration. All<br />
were friendly and comfortable in each other’s<br />
company.<br />
“It’s a great group of people,” said Meisner.<br />
“I don’t know what else to say but there is<br />
something about this church.”<br />
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Multi-Talented Recording Engineer Takes<br />
Off with Home-Based Missile Silo Studios<br />
Story by MELISSA SUMMERS<br />
Photos by KAREN FUCITO<br />
Just about every young boy who has picked<br />
up a guitar at 13 years old has been<br />
convinced he’d make a living playing it. Most<br />
will mess around for a few months or years, with<br />
dreams of stardom and dollar signs in their eyes<br />
and pockets full of guitar picks.<br />
And then when their parents persuade them<br />
to pursue other more “practical” means of<br />
income, the guitar fades away into a closet, only<br />
to be brought out for the occasional jam session<br />
with friends or a talent show.<br />
Not the case for Joe Egan, 39, of Hopatcong,<br />
who was fortunate enough to have had a father<br />
who played guitar and encouraged him during<br />
his early teenage years to try his hand at music.<br />
While attending Lenape Valley Regional High<br />
School in Stanhope, he and some friends formed<br />
a band they called Outlet.<br />
Egan’s influences were varied.<br />
“I grew up listening to heavier music,” he said.<br />
“Metallica was one of my favorite bands but also<br />
‘90s grunge bands like Pearl Jam and Alice In<br />
Chains. I also wrote some original music and<br />
played at local parties and talent shows.”<br />
He explored metal, rock, jazz and other genres<br />
as an artist, but also found he had another<br />
talent, something else that might actually give<br />
him a career to build on.<br />
“When I had my own band, I was trying to<br />
find a way to record our music,” Egan said. “So,<br />
I got some computer software. I was trying to<br />
figure things out on my own and recorded some<br />
friends’ bands with a very modest setup. The<br />
quality wasn’t the best, but I was learning.”<br />
He graduated from Lenape in 2001, attended<br />
County College of Morris for a year and then<br />
went to William Paterson University to study<br />
sound engineering. Egan took advantage of a<br />
new recording studio on the university’s campus,<br />
learning everything he could about the industry.<br />
He graduated with a Bachelor of Music in<br />
2006, earning a degree in sound engineering<br />
arts with a concentration in classical guitar.<br />
“Laptops started getting really powerful, so I<br />
Joe Egan in the sound room at a recent recording session.<br />
started with a mobile setup, and I used to go to<br />
people’s rehearsal studios or homes and record<br />
them where they were because I didn’t have a<br />
space set up,” he said of his first few years in the<br />
business. “I was recording as much as I could,<br />
and that was the way I could do it at the time.”<br />
When Joe and his wife, Michele, purchased<br />
a house in 2010, he brought the studio to his<br />
home. “I stopped the mobile thing and started<br />
having people come to me. It’s a cool setup<br />
because I can control my own environment<br />
rather than showing up at someone’s house<br />
where their brother is watching a movie or<br />
something, which doesn’t help,” he said with a<br />
chuckle.<br />
The name of his home-based business is a<br />
throwback to a childhood memory.<br />
“At my dad’s house, my brother and I shared<br />
a room. It was an older house and had a little<br />
storage cubby with a door in the wall. There was<br />
an old little toy rocket that was sitting in there.<br />
We used to joke around when people would<br />
ask what was in that door over there. We’d say,<br />
‘Oh that’s just the missile silo.’” And from there<br />
launched Missile Silo Studios, which takes up<br />
the entirety of the Egans’ basement.<br />
Most of his first clients were friends and<br />
friends of friends. At the time, he was in a band<br />
called Human Era with his younger brother,<br />
Jake Egan, of Denville. “Some of the people<br />
we played with needed a way to record on the<br />
cheap, so we hooked them up—had a little fun,”<br />
Joe Egan recalled.<br />
Jake Egan, who played drums in the band,<br />
would help if his brother needed another set<br />
of ears. He would listen to tracks and suggest<br />
changes or give his seal of approval.<br />
“Every once in a while, I’ll still send him a<br />
mix of a song and ask for his input on it,” said<br />
Joe Egan. “So, he’s a member of the team but<br />
unofficially.”<br />
Joe Egan now teaches guitar and bass lessons<br />
both at the Music Den in Randolph and his<br />
home studio. With regular recording clients, he<br />
hasn’t needed to advertise much. Plus, he said,<br />
his work at the music store brings in even more<br />
leads.<br />
“I have students who are in bands, and<br />
eventually they’ll want to record,” he said.<br />
He’s thrilled to be able to work from home,<br />
with convenience, flexibility and cost all in his<br />
favor, despite the initial risk. “I choose to have it<br />
there, and it was a wacky idea to some extent,”<br />
he pointed out. “But, when people come in and<br />
they record in my studio, they’re more relaxed<br />
because the setting is more casual, and I can still<br />
give them the results they like.”<br />
The duo Please Exist is a longtime client of<br />
Missile Silo Studios. “We’ve known Joe for<br />
about as long as we’ve been a band,” said Ralph<br />
Chudley of Rockaway, who partnered with<br />
Dover-based musician John T. Fisher in 2009.<br />
They are working on their third album entitled<br />
“Storytellers in Straitjackets.”<br />
“It’s a collection of original songs written<br />
in our post-hardcore style about one patient’s<br />
journey through a psychiatric hospital,”<br />
Chudley said of the work.<br />
They enjoy the intimate setting at Missile Silo<br />
Studios. “In a big, over-the-top recording studio<br />
you tend to feel a bit anxious,” said Chudley.<br />
“You might be afraid to take risks when<br />
recording vocals for fear of sounding bad or<br />
wrong. I think some of my best work has been<br />
done there simply because I wasn’t afraid to try<br />
different approaches.”<br />
The new album represents a similar goal as<br />
that of their previous albums. “We want to<br />
Ralph<br />
Chudley<br />
at a recent<br />
recording<br />
session.<br />
Egan sets<br />
up a mic<br />
stand for<br />
Chudley<br />
before<br />
a recent<br />
recording<br />
session.<br />
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Michele and Joe Egan at Missile Silo Studios.
challenge ourselves as artists and put something<br />
out into the world that people might connect<br />
with and enjoy,” Chudley said.<br />
Egan fills his repertoire with a variety of artists<br />
and musicians and caters his services to their<br />
needs. “Most of the time I charge by the hour.<br />
Once in a while, someone will want to do a full<br />
album, with a specific number of songs and<br />
instrumentation, so I might charge a flat rate<br />
for the project. Someone might come in with<br />
two or three songs they want to do, have never<br />
recorded before and want to see how it’s going<br />
to come out in my studio.”<br />
Some of Egan’s customers need more than just<br />
recordings—arriving only with ideas in their<br />
heads or scribbled down notes. “I have a couple<br />
of clients who come in and I end up playing the<br />
drums or the guitars or the bass or sometimes<br />
even singing. They’ve shown me their songs,<br />
and I’ve made them into full band versions,” he<br />
added. “One guy, it’s just strictly the pleasure<br />
of having his work recorded. Another guy, his<br />
goal is to record demos to use to try and find<br />
someone more famous to sing them. He wants<br />
to be a real songwriter.”<br />
Missile Silo Studios is truly a full-service<br />
studio. Egan said he has occasionally relied on<br />
his music theory background to compose music<br />
to go with lyrics written by a client.<br />
Over the years he’s recorded many styles of<br />
music. Hip-hop artists will come in with their<br />
own beats and want to add vocals.<br />
Sometimes, he gets a real challenge that puts<br />
him outside his comfort zone.<br />
“For a couple of years, I had a woman who<br />
plays meditation music on crystal bowls. She sits<br />
on the floor and scrapes the edge of the bowls,<br />
and it makes this nice sound. It’s an adventure<br />
every time. A big key to recording is finding the<br />
right spot to put a microphone; that’s part of the<br />
trick. It’s also a learning process. It doesn’t hurt<br />
to do a quick Google search and get some ideas<br />
to try out,” said Egan.<br />
Recording technology has improved so much<br />
over the years that high-quality recordings can<br />
be made on a laptop, and lots of people are<br />
trying to do just that, according to Egan. But<br />
you still need the expertise. “Instead of a band<br />
coming to me right away, they might buy an<br />
interface for $200 that comes with the software<br />
and try it on their own first. Sometimes there’s a<br />
little bit of a delay when they try it on their own,<br />
realize they can’t do it, and then come to me. In<br />
the past, they would come to me first without<br />
even trying it.”<br />
Egan said he learned the technical side of the<br />
industry at William Paterson University but<br />
believes recording is also an art form. There are<br />
standard methods, but they don’t always have to<br />
be followed. “You shouldn’t be afraid to try new<br />
ideas to keep things interesting. Fresh is the key.<br />
I think that’s where the creative process comes<br />
in. Sometimes you can get some cool sounds<br />
that you never heard before.”<br />
One popular tool, Auto-Tune, was<br />
traditionally used as an effect, but more recently<br />
has been used to match beats or tune a vocal.<br />
“I use it to try and make someone sound like<br />
they should have, but the trick is to try and do<br />
it where it’s subtle—where you don’t hear it. If<br />
you do it right, no one should ever know that it’s<br />
even on there.”<br />
Egan still sees value in recording entire bands<br />
live, for a whole different vibe. Mistakes can<br />
make the recording more interesting. The idea<br />
of being “raw” is more common, he said. Every<br />
engineer wants to be perfect, but not too perfect.<br />
“Joe is extremely knowledgeable and helpful<br />
when it comes to getting the sound and direction<br />
in your head onto a track,” said Chudley of his<br />
work with the studio. “I often joke that he’s our<br />
third band member.”<br />
Individual artists with electronically generated<br />
music have been trending over bands. “But the<br />
guitar is making a comeback, so the whole idea<br />
of a band is slowly starting to creep back into<br />
it,” Egan said.<br />
He’s been lucky enough to consistently work<br />
in music since he graduated. “I always joke, I<br />
never really got a full-time job, I just play guitar<br />
all day.”<br />
And that’s true inspiration for every wannabe<br />
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Friends, family and motorcycle enthusiasts showed up in force to support<br />
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being struck by a vehicle in June 2020.<br />
The first annual Silva Ride or Drive Motorcycle Ride, held October 22, drew about<br />
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said friend and event organizer Janet Higgins. The ride was led by Silva's husband,<br />
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Beginning and ending at the Lake Hopatcong Elks Lodge in Mount<br />
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As a result of the accident, Silva, 55, lost her right leg just below the hip<br />
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The October event drew friends and family from as far away as Delaware,<br />
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“I’m in awe,” Silva said as she was greeted by friends. “A lot of good things<br />
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The feeling among Silva’s friends is mutual. Many of them said they are in<br />
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HISTORY<br />
Replica of a longhouse at Waterloo Village, created to<br />
demonstrate how the Lenape of this area lived.<br />
Lenape at Lake Hopatcong<br />
Situated in the<br />
mountains of<br />
northwestern New Jersey, Lake Hopatcong lies<br />
in what was once known as Lenapehoking—the<br />
land of the Lenape—which extended along both<br />
sides of the Delaware River, encompassing what<br />
is now northern Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania<br />
and New Jersey. The name Lenape has several<br />
interpretations, among which are “ordinary<br />
people” and “original people.”<br />
Many European settlers referred to the Lenape<br />
as “Lenni Lenape,” which has a redundant<br />
meaning, as if to say “first, original people”<br />
or “ordinary, common people.” Europeans<br />
also described the original inhabitants of<br />
New Jersey as “Delaware Indians” after the<br />
English nobleman Lord De La Warr, for whom<br />
Delaware and the Delaware River were named.<br />
The people we call Lenape today consisted<br />
of many groups who differed in dialects and<br />
customs. The tribe that lived in the northern<br />
region of Lenapehoking, including what is now<br />
northwestern New Jersey, were known as Minsi<br />
or Munsee, which translates to “people of the<br />
stony country.”<br />
The Unami, or “people down river,” lived<br />
in the northeastern and central region of New<br />
Jersey. Lake Hopatcong was home to bands or<br />
groups of Lenape believed to have been called<br />
the Nariticong.<br />
No historic basis exists for the image of warlike<br />
Delaware Indians written about in earlier days.<br />
In fact, the absence of stockades around villages<br />
in Lenapehoking indicates relatively peaceful<br />
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relations with the neighboring Susquehannocks,<br />
Mohawks and Mohicans.<br />
Some Lenape lived in groups of 50 to 100<br />
people, others in larger groups of several<br />
hundred. They often settled in villages along<br />
the banks of rivers and lakes with rich soil.<br />
They hunted, fished, farmed and gathered wild<br />
plants, seeds and nuts according to the seasons.<br />
The Lenape lived together in sturdy<br />
longhouses built from saplings and bark. A<br />
recreation of one of these structures can be<br />
visited at Waterloo Village in Stanhope.<br />
Early accounts written by European explorers<br />
and colonists indicate Lenape men cleared land<br />
for gardens, built houses and canoes, hunted,<br />
fished and traded with other groups. Women<br />
planted and harvested, collected firewood,<br />
tanned animal hides and made clothes. They<br />
also gathered greens, berries and nuts, and cared<br />
for children.<br />
Strong ties existed between parents and<br />
children, who received love and attention, but<br />
were expected to do their share of the work.<br />
While new innovations such as horticulture<br />
changed their lives over time, a respect for<br />
nature was always a central theme of Lenape<br />
civilization.<br />
Lenape clothing was simple. Men typically<br />
wore only a breechcloth, adding a fur cloak<br />
with leggings and soft-soled moccasins in colder<br />
weather. Women wore rectangular skirts and<br />
added poncho-like garments for warmth.<br />
Beautiful, warm mantles and robes were<br />
made from goose or turkey feathers carefully<br />
sewn to a kind of netting. Clothes may have<br />
been painted, fringed or decorated with shell<br />
beads or porcupine quills. Ornaments were<br />
made from natural substances like stone, bone<br />
or antler, shell or animal claws.<br />
The Lenape believed in a single powerful<br />
Top Left: Stone projectile points found at Lake<br />
Hopatcong, which are now part of the collection<br />
at the Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum. Above<br />
Right: Effigy face found on Bertrand Island and<br />
now housed at Seton Hall University. Above<br />
Left: Decorated pottery fragment found at Lake<br />
Hopatcong, which is now part of the collection<br />
at the Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum. Above<br />
Center: Effigy face found by the Lawrey family in<br />
Mount Arlington.<br />
creator known as Kishelemukong or “he who<br />
creates with his thoughts.” Kishelemukong<br />
created all good things including the<br />
Manetuwak, spirit helpers who lived in and<br />
controlled the forces of nature, plants and<br />
animals.<br />
Mahtantu, an evil spirit, made the tormenting<br />
insects, useless plants and put thorns on berry<br />
bushes.<br />
Because the Lenape believed that all things,<br />
including animals, insects, trees and rocks, had<br />
a spirit and deserved respect, they endeavored to<br />
live in harmony with the environment.<br />
The Lenape had an excellent understanding<br />
of the medicinal value of native plants to cure<br />
ordinary sickness or injuries. Death was a great<br />
calamity. Friends and relatives gathered, and the<br />
body was prepared for burial, dressed in new<br />
clothes and interred in a shallow grave. The<br />
souls of the good made a journey to the afterlife<br />
where Kishelemukong dwelled.<br />
As a deep, spring-fed lake formed by glaciers<br />
over 900 feet above sea level, the waters of Lake<br />
Hopatcong provided an ideal home when the<br />
Delaware Indians discovered it over 10,000<br />
years ago. Its shores supported ample game<br />
while the water furnished abundant fish.<br />
The written accounts of early European<br />
settlers and artifacts found in the area indicate<br />
the largest Lenape settlement was in the vicinity<br />
of Halsey and Raccoon Islands, in a part of the<br />
lake that is largely underwater today. During<br />
the Lenape era, these islands were all part of the<br />
mainland, connected to the area we know today
Depiction of Lenape life at Lake Hopatcong, painting by Norm Volz.<br />
as Prospect Point.<br />
Explorers charting this region around 1650<br />
recorded that a village located at the lake was<br />
called Pechquakock by its inhabitants. Later<br />
maps list the name as Araughcun. Evidence of<br />
a Lenape presence has been found in most areas<br />
of the lake, in addition to the village in the area<br />
of Halsey and Raccoon Islands.<br />
The body of water the Lenape knew was<br />
approximately 12 feet lower than the lake we<br />
know today and ran roughly from what is today<br />
Point Pleasant to just north of Nolan’s Point.<br />
(This body of water was known as Great Pond<br />
or Brookland Pond to early colonists.)<br />
A stream connected this lake to a smaller<br />
body of water, located in the area known today<br />
as Woodport or Lake Forest (known to early<br />
settlers as Little Pond).<br />
Over the ensuing years, dams built for an<br />
18th-century forge and later for the Morris<br />
Canal raised the lake to its current level and size.<br />
Although the exact fate of the Lenape<br />
settlements at Lake Hopatcong is unknown, the<br />
result was the same as in all of Lenapehoking.<br />
The start of the fur trade signaled the end of life<br />
as it had been for thousands of years for Native<br />
Americans.<br />
Natural resources rapidly dwindled as a<br />
result of the overhunting necessary to supply<br />
European traders. Competition for trade<br />
opportunities caused conflict between the<br />
Lenape and neighboring groups. Diseases such<br />
as measles, smallpox and tuberculosis—carried<br />
inadvertently by the Europeans and to which<br />
the Lenape had no immunity—drastically<br />
reduced the indigenous population.<br />
Due to their inland location, the Lenape<br />
living near the lake may have been able to retain<br />
their way of life longer than those in coastal<br />
regions who made first contact with European<br />
explorers. Nevertheless, encroaching European<br />
settlements eventually forced virtually all the<br />
remaining Lenape from their homeland.<br />
By the 1750s, the<br />
Lenape began a long<br />
odyssey searching for<br />
a new home. Some<br />
headed to Ontario,<br />
Canada, where<br />
descendants still<br />
reside today. Others<br />
attempted to settle in<br />
areas including Ohio,<br />
Kansas and Texas, but<br />
were eventually driven<br />
away.<br />
Finally, in the mid-<br />
1800s, they were<br />
allowed to settle in<br />
“Indian Territory,”<br />
present day Oklahoma.<br />
In addition to the<br />
many Native American<br />
artifacts which have been found over the years<br />
at the lake, the Lenape left us with many words<br />
still in use today.<br />
Place names such as Espanong, Nariticong<br />
and Hopatcong are European recollections of<br />
Lenape words.<br />
It is believed the name Hopatcong comes<br />
from the Lenape word “hapakonoesson,”<br />
meaning pipestone. While it is impossible to<br />
know the exact context in which the Lenape<br />
may have used this term in regard to the lake,<br />
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it may have been a reference to soapstone and<br />
other soft stone found in the area that was used<br />
to make pipes. The word may also have referred<br />
to the jagged shape of the lake’s shoreline.<br />
One thing that is certain is the name<br />
Hopatcong does not translate to “honey waters<br />
of many coves” or “honey waters from many<br />
streams.” These explanations were invented<br />
in the early 20th century to evoke a romantic<br />
image of the lake to promote the developing<br />
tourist trade.<br />
So, as we enjoy the magnificent resource we<br />
know today as Lake Hopatcong, we celebrate<br />
and remember what was originally the<br />
homeland of the Lenape people.<br />
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Christmas is Coming<br />
For the magazine’s<br />
holiday issue,<br />
I usually share a<br />
Christmas cookie<br />
recipe. This year, though, I thought I’d share a<br />
different kind of recipe and a story that tugs at<br />
my heartstrings.<br />
Many of you may be familiar with Christmas<br />
stollen, a German yeasted cake studded with<br />
raisins and almonds that is baked especially for<br />
the holiday season. This oblong cake, sprinkled<br />
with a thick coating of powdered sugar, is<br />
supposed to resemble the baby Jesus wrapped<br />
in swaddling cloth.<br />
My mother, Gertrude, and I never made<br />
stollen at home, but we always received one in<br />
the beginning of December during the 1960s<br />
and 1970s from relatives in what was then East<br />
Germany.<br />
Thinking back on how difficult it must have<br />
been to gather all of the ingredients, bake it and<br />
mail it to us in time for Christmas, I am sorry I<br />
never got to hear about the process.<br />
I wish I would have asked my Tante Ilse to<br />
share the recipe with me, but she’s been gone<br />
for several years now.<br />
More important than the recipe, though, is<br />
the backstory, which I’ve pieced together from<br />
my sister-in-law, Emily Kertscher, and from my<br />
own memories.<br />
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shortages of all types of vital foodstuffs.<br />
Production of food was disrupted because<br />
of the destruction of farmland, livestock and<br />
machinery during World War II.<br />
Fats, like butter, were rationed by availability.<br />
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Anything exotic, like pineapples, bananas<br />
or oranges, were outrageously expensive and<br />
would only be available on rare occasions.<br />
You would have to wait in line to be able to<br />
purchase your rationed amount. And, if you<br />
were to purchase three oranges, for example,<br />
one or two of them were probably rotten.<br />
My half-brother, Harry, who grew up in East<br />
Germany, told me that if there was a line in<br />
front of a grocery store, you got on it, even if<br />
you didn’t know what exotic food was going to<br />
be available that day.<br />
When we lived in Montclair and after we<br />
moved up to the lake, we would send our East<br />
German relatives care packages over the course<br />
of the year. Nylon stockings, chewing gum,<br />
Levi’s blue jeans, chocolate, coffee and often<br />
$10 or $20 in cash (for them to spend on black<br />
market items) were just some of the things we<br />
included.<br />
Every year during the first week of December,<br />
we’d get a notice in our mailbox to come to the<br />
post office to pick up a package from our East<br />
German relatives. It was wrapped in brown<br />
paper, addressed in my Onkel Walter’s neat<br />
script and tied with white cotton twine. Once<br />
we got it home, my mother would cut the<br />
twine and tear off the paper. The stollen would<br />
be packed inside a cardboard box printed with<br />
small Christmas designs of pine boughs and<br />
candles.<br />
Gertrude would put the stollen on a cutting<br />
board, melt half a stick of butter and pour it all<br />
over the loaf. She would then give it a liberal<br />
sprinkling of powdered sugar and we would<br />
enjoy it after school with coffee or for breakfast<br />
with butter, for as long as we could make it last.<br />
Getting this stollen to America must have<br />
been a tremendous undertaking for Tante<br />
Ilse and her family. She must have started<br />
getting everything ready by the middle of<br />
November. Flour and eggs were not hard to<br />
come by (they always had chickens), but she<br />
must have worked on procuring the rest of the<br />
ingredients well ahead of time. Sugar, raisins,<br />
butter, almonds, citron were luxury items that<br />
she probably stockpiled whenever they became<br />
available.<br />
After gathering the ingredients, the stollen<br />
would take the better part of a day to mix,<br />
rise and bake. I imagine that she and her<br />
sister would spend the day baking together,<br />
preparing several loaves to share with their<br />
families in town.<br />
Knowing Onkel Walter, I’m sure he was in<br />
charge of boxing up and wrapping our package<br />
for the post office and that postage from the<br />
DDR (the Deutsche Demokratische Republik<br />
or East Germany) to the United States was<br />
costly. I imagine the package would have been<br />
underway for at least 10 days.<br />
It’s heartbreaking that when I was younger<br />
I didn’t appreciate the effort that went into<br />
sending those Christmas stollens. Now, upon<br />
remembering my family’s stories and having<br />
tried my hand at recreating the recipe, I see<br />
what love, care and sacrifice those relatives<br />
made for us.<br />
Some things to keep in mind:<br />
-You’ll need to set aside a good chunk of time<br />
for making Christmas stollen.<br />
-This recipe is similar to Dresdner stollen that<br />
I adapted from several recipes after researching<br />
online. After my last recipe testing session,<br />
it smelled just like Christmas in my kitchen.<br />
The mace, nutmeg, vanilla and cardamom are<br />
essential to reproducing just the right flavor<br />
and aroma.<br />
-A basic stollen, like the ones we received<br />
from East Germany, would have included just<br />
raisins and citron. The almonds, dried cherries,<br />
orange peel and marzipan are enrichments that<br />
my relatives would have considered decadent<br />
and would have been unobtainable for them.<br />
My recipe here is similar to what you would<br />
find in a fancy German bakery today.
CHRISTMAS STOLLEN<br />
Ingredients<br />
Fruits & nuts<br />
2 cups golden raisins<br />
½ cup (one 4-ounce bag) dried morello cherries<br />
½ cup orange juice<br />
⅔ cup chopped almonds<br />
2 tablespoons candied orange peel (store bought or *homemade)<br />
½ cup citron<br />
Sponge<br />
⅔ cup milk at 110 F<br />
2 teaspoons sugar<br />
1 packet fast-acting yeast (check the expiration date)<br />
Cake<br />
3 cups bread flour<br />
6 tablespoons sugar<br />
10 tablespoons butter (1 stick + 2 tablespoons)<br />
1 egg<br />
2 teaspoons vanilla<br />
A pinch of salt<br />
2 teaspoons cardamom<br />
A pinch of ground nutmeg<br />
½ teaspoon mace<br />
Zest of 1 navel orange<br />
Zest of ½ lemon<br />
Filling<br />
7 ounces (1 box) marzipan or almond paste<br />
Stollen coating<br />
5 tablespoons melted butter<br />
3 tablespoons powdered (confectioners’) sugar<br />
*For homemade candied orange peel:<br />
Ingredients<br />
1 navel orange<br />
⅓ cup sugar<br />
⅓ cup water<br />
Procedure<br />
Peel the orange and cut away the bitter white pith. Slice peel into narrow<br />
strips. Bring half a small saucepan of water to a boil. Add the orange peel and<br />
boil for 10 minutes. Drain and discard water. Add the sugar and ⅓ cup water<br />
to the same saucepan and bring to a boil. Put the blanched orange peels<br />
into the saucepan and simmer for 10 minutes. Cool on parchment paper.<br />
Procedure<br />
Prepare the fruits and nuts:<br />
1 Soak the raisins and dried cherries in the orange juice overnight or microwave, covered for 1 minute. Drain and discard liquid.<br />
2 Wake up the flavor of the almonds by toasting them in a frying pan on the stovetop until just browned or microwave on a large plate,<br />
uncovered for 30 seconds to 1 minute.<br />
3 Chop the candied orange peel, set aside.<br />
Make the sponge:<br />
4 In a small saucepan, heat the milk to 110 F. Pour the warmed milk into a medium-sized bowl, stir in the sugar until it dissolves. Sprinkle in<br />
the packet of yeast, give it a gentle stir, cover with a damp cloth and set it aside in a warm spot for 10 or 15 minutes until it foams up.<br />
Make the cake:<br />
5 In the bowl of your electric mixer with the fitted dough hook, combine the flour, sugar, butter, egg, vanilla, salt, cardamom, nutmeg, mace,<br />
orange zest, lemon zest and the sponge. Mix at a low speed until incorporated.<br />
6 Remove the dough and place in a greased bowl (use butter or Pam). Cover with a damp dish towel. Let rise for 60 to 90 minutes until puffy.<br />
7 Put the dough on a floured surface and work the raisins, cherries, citron, candied orange peel and almonds into it by hand until combined.<br />
Do not overwork the dough at this stage.<br />
8 On a lightly floured work surface, gently roll the stollen dough into an 8-by-12-inch rectangle. On the work surface, roll the marzipan out<br />
to a 6-by12-inch rectangle and place it on top of the stollen, leaving a 1-inch margin on the long sides. Fold the long sides of the dough to<br />
the middle of the loaf and bring them together forming a ridge in the middle. Seal the edges by lightly pressing them together.<br />
9 Let rise for another 30 to 60 minutes, until puffy.<br />
10 Set the oven to 350 F. When the oven comes to temperature, bake the stollen for 45 to 50 minutes until nicely browned (190 F internal<br />
temperature). Let cool on a rack.<br />
11 The stollen can be wrapped well in plastic wrap and aluminum foil and frozen at this point. Before serving, let it come to room temperature,<br />
then top with the melted butter and a thick layer of powdered sugar.<br />
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WORDS OF<br />
A FEATHER<br />
Brush and debris in front of the author’s home.<br />
The Venice Theater, built around 1950, and the<br />
largest community theater in the US, devastated.<br />
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was leveled during the hurricane.<br />
My initial thought upon waking up on<br />
Thursday, September 29 was that the<br />
darkness had lessened, and the howling had<br />
abated. Hurricane Ian had passed, and I was<br />
safe.<br />
Hurricane Ian was a Category 4 storm that hit<br />
southwest Florida, where I live, on September<br />
28.<br />
Category 4 storms are defined by sustained<br />
wind speeds in the range of 130 to 156 mph. In<br />
comparison, Superstorm Sandy hit New Jersey<br />
in 2012 as a Category 1 storm. Katrina, of New<br />
Orleans infamy, was a Category 5.<br />
Ian’s winds reached 155 mph, and I humbly<br />
submit to you that there is not a whole hell<br />
of a lot of difference in those 155 mph winds<br />
and the 157 mph winds that define Category<br />
5 storms.<br />
Ian is the deadliest storm to hit Florida since<br />
1935. Many Floridians lost their lives in the<br />
storm and many, many more lost homes.<br />
I was very lucky; I have plenty of damage, but<br />
relative to what others have endured, it is largely<br />
superficial. My friends, family and loved ones<br />
similarly made it through mostly whole.<br />
For those of you who may be reading this<br />
and who did not fare so well, I’m terribly sorry.<br />
Please know my thoughts in this column reflect<br />
only my own experience, and I cannot presume<br />
to speak for anyone else who weathered this<br />
storm.<br />
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Kind is the<br />
New Cool<br />
Column and photos by HEATHER SHIRLEY<br />
LAKE HOPATCONG NEWS <strong>Holiday</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
The hurricane was a purely terrifying event—a<br />
unique manifestation of nature’s power and<br />
potential. Nature, as we know, is a splendid,<br />
mysterious and magical phenomenon. While<br />
Ian was horrific, it also proved to generate just<br />
a bit of magic. The magic was the kindness that<br />
spread through communities both before and<br />
after the storm.<br />
The preparation was a remarkable occasion<br />
for my community to come together. When I<br />
bought my home, it came with storm shutters.<br />
They were bundled in the garage, neatly stacked<br />
and secured to the wall. I had absolutely no idea<br />
how exactly to get them onto the windows.<br />
Turns out, I didn’t need to know.<br />
Neighbors turned out in droves to help<br />
each other. Once I learned, I of course paid it<br />
forward. I saw a neighbor working alone in the<br />
rain and went to him, asking simply: “Okay if<br />
I start on the next window for you?” As I was<br />
finishing my last shutter, a different neighbor<br />
didn’t say a word to me, just pulled up a ladder<br />
and got to work beside me.<br />
Before the storm hit, hundreds of text<br />
messages zoomed through my network of<br />
friends and neighbors. Our texts reminded<br />
each other of all the prep details to follow: fill<br />
your bathtubs, turn your freezer to the coldest<br />
setting, don’t forget food and water for your pet.<br />
We checked to make sure everyone had enough<br />
supplies, batteries, emergency lights.<br />
I saw neighbors trotting across the street,<br />
delivering a case of water to someone who found<br />
store shelves sold out. People with generators<br />
offered to store neighbors’ insulin and other<br />
prescriptions. Pure thoughtfulness. Kindness.<br />
And the kindness continued post-storm. A lot<br />
of trees came down on my property and blocked<br />
my garage. No matter, neighbors arrived with<br />
chainsaws and made quick work of them. The<br />
National Guard passed out water and food<br />
rations. Local roads flooded, and the threat of<br />
more flooding and storm surge continued for<br />
weeks.<br />
Trees were down everywhere, causing frequent<br />
turnarounds and traffic jams. The patience<br />
drivers showed as we experimented fording<br />
these tricky hazards was significant. We’d smile<br />
and urge each other on and get out to push if<br />
needed.<br />
Relief workers came from everywhere to help.<br />
I wound up in the emergency room a couple<br />
days after the storm (ugh, don’t ask, I’m fine<br />
now). The hospital was overflowing, and even<br />
with a huge triage tent set up, I was lucky to get<br />
a bed in a busy hallway. I watched EMTs who<br />
had come to help from all over the state and<br />
even from Georgia.<br />
Similarly, we saw power trucks here from<br />
across the nation—North Dakota, New<br />
Hampshire, Texas—helping. Downed trees<br />
were everywhere, blocking roads and dragging<br />
power lines with them. Tree cutting crews<br />
from Virginia, New England and the Carolinas<br />
descended on Florida in droves. As locals, we’d<br />
honk and wave our thanks, and the helpers<br />
would grin and wave back.<br />
Thanks, folks. I simply cannot imagine trying<br />
to recover without your aid.<br />
I’m humbled. By the generosity of others. By<br />
the power of community. By the strength of<br />
nature. By the mercy of the storm on my home<br />
and family. By the kindness shown by so many<br />
to so many others.<br />
How grand that there is something so positive<br />
resulting from such a horrific event. It calls<br />
to mind the words of the Dalai Lama, who<br />
said, “Be kind whenever possible. It is always<br />
possible.”<br />
Quite a mantra to keep in mind this holiday<br />
season. Why not make it your New Year’s<br />
resolution this year? I know I will.<br />
Wishing you all peace, joy, abounding<br />
kindness and hurricane-free days ahead.<br />
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Peter Salmon and his very unusual car<br />
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Vol. 1, No. 3<br />
Vol. 10, No. 2<br />
Vacationing close to home<br />
Page 20<br />
Labor Day 2016<br />
Hopatcong couple dedicated to rescue<br />
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Memorial Day 2018<br />
Vol. 8, No. 7<br />
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<strong>Holiday</strong> 2016<br />
Looking skyward<br />
Local DAR honor soldiers<br />
Charity on wheels<br />
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Fa l 2019<br />
LH refi ling after drawdown<br />
Page 4<br />
Princeton Hydro: Stewards of LH<br />
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Ice boating on area lakes<br />
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Vol. 10, No. 5<br />
Vol. 10, No. 6<br />
1<br />
Labor Day 2018<br />
Community garden turns 5<br />
Page 6<br />
Hiking the Appalachian Trail<br />
Page 16<br />
Not your average summer camp<br />
Page 24<br />
Family reunion<br />
Page 30<br />
Vol. 9, No. 5<br />
farmer<br />
Labor Day 2017<br />
Vol. 7, No. 4<br />
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Baitfish fishing<br />
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Aug. 1, 2015<br />
Vol. 1, No. 2<br />
Memorial Day 2019<br />
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Vol. 8, No. 4<br />
Beauty queen<br />
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Aug. 1, 2016<br />
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Vol. 1, No. 4<br />
Labor Day 2019<br />
Spring 2019<br />
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Fourth of July 2018<br />
• American picker<br />
• Olympic spirit<br />
• Passion for golf<br />
• LHC budgets for weeds<br />
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CONSTRUCTION/<br />
EXCAVATION<br />
Al Hutchins Excavating<br />
973-663-2142<br />
973-713-8020<br />
Lakeside Construction<br />
151 Sparta-Stanhope Rd.<br />
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ENTERTAINMENT/<br />
RECREATION<br />
Hopatcong Marketplace<br />
47 Hopatchung Rd.<br />
Investors Bank Theater<br />
72 Eyland Ave., Succasunna<br />
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Lake Hopatcong Adventure<br />
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Lake Hopatcong Cruises<br />
Miss Lotta (Dinner Boat)<br />
37 Nolan’s Pt. Park Rd., LH<br />
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Lake Hopatcong Mini Golf Club<br />
37 Nolan's Pt. Park Rd., LH<br />
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HOME SERVICES<br />
Central Comfort<br />
100 Nolan’s Point Rd., LH<br />
973-361-2146<br />
Homestead Lawn Sprinkler<br />
5580 Berkshire Valley Rd., OR<br />
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Happs Kitchen & Bath<br />
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Jefferson Recycling<br />
710 Route 15 N Jefferson<br />
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LAKE SERVICES<br />
AAA Dock & Marine<br />
27 Prospect Point Rd., LH<br />
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70 Rt. 181, LH<br />
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MARINAS, BOAT<br />
SALES & RENTALS<br />
Beebe Marina<br />
123 Brady Rd., LH<br />
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Lake’s End Marina<br />
91 Mt. Arlington Blvd., Landing<br />
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Lake Hopatcong Elks Lodge<br />
201 Howard Blvd., MA<br />
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125 Landing Rd., Landing<br />
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RESTAURANTS & BARS<br />
Alice’s Restaurant<br />
24 Nolan’s Pt. Park Rd, LH<br />
973-663-9600<br />
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Andre’s Lakeside Dining<br />
112 Tomahawk Tr., Sparta<br />
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175 Lakeside Blvd., Landing<br />
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Big Fish Lounge At Alice’s<br />
24 Nolan’s Pt. Park Rd, LH<br />
973-663-9600<br />
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The Windlass Restaurant<br />
45 Nolan’s Point Park Rd., LH<br />
973-663-3190<br />
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SENIOR CARE<br />
Preferred Care at Home<br />
George & Jill Malanga/Owners<br />
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SPECIALTY STORES<br />
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At The Lake Jewelry<br />
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Best Cellars Wine & Spirits<br />
1001 Rt. 46, Ledgewood<br />
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Four Sisters Winery<br />
783 Rt 519W, Belvidere<br />
908-475-3671<br />
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Hawk Ridge Farm<br />
283 Espanong Rd, LH<br />
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Hearth & Home<br />
1215 Rt. 46, Ledgewood<br />
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Helrick’s Custom Framing<br />
158 W Clinton St., Dover<br />
973-361-1559<br />
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JF Wood Products<br />
973-590-4319<br />
J. Thomas Jewelers<br />
243 Sparta Ave., Sparta<br />
973-729-4969<br />
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Main Lake Market<br />
234 S. NJ Ave., LH<br />
973-663-0544<br />
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Nature’s Golden Miracle<br />
CBD Products<br />
973-288-1971<br />
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Orange Carpet & Wood Gallery<br />
470 Rt. 10W, Ledgewood<br />
973-584-5300<br />
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STORAGE<br />
Woodport Self Storage<br />
17 Rt. 181 & 20 Tierney Rd.<br />
Lake Hopatcong<br />
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ake Hopatcong News<br />
Police Unity Tour<br />
Members of Hopatcong’s Police Department ride<br />
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A tale of two coves<br />
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A<br />
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• Young miner<br />
• LHF Block Party<br />
• Benefit for wounded vets<br />
• The lure of a fish tale<br />
Bottoms Up<br />
Ninth Annual Jersey Wakeo f at Lake Hopatcong<br />
Inside this issue:<br />
Local couple ties the knot, fina ly<br />
Page 4<br />
Running club dedicated to helping others<br />
Page 18<br />
Lake Hopatcong Foundation’s Gal and Auction<br />
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ake Hopatcong News<br />
Aug. 1, 2014 Vol. 6, No. 4<br />
Christmas<br />
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Annual holiday celebration in Je ferson<br />
The tradition of telling the stories of the lake community<br />
continues thanks to all the advertisers.<br />
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• Algae Bloom Lingers<br />
• Northwood A sociation Turns 100<br />
• Mount Arlington Opens Community Garden<br />
• West Side Methodist Celebrates Milestone<br />
ICE JOB<br />
Volunteers, including two from Hopatcong, take part in a<br />
century-old tradition at Raque te Lake in the Adirondacks<br />
Vol. 9, No. 1<br />
Work begins on 40-plus mile trail<br />
around the Lake Hopatcong<br />
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Windup toy co lection<br />
Hydro raking program begins<br />
‘Study Hull’<br />
makes maiden<br />
voyage<br />
Teen program turns 2<br />
WW I vet records history<br />
Local students schooled on fresh water aboard the Lake Hopatcong Foundation’s floating cla sroom<br />
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For the Birds<br />
Andrew Eppedio (and his mom’s) great avian adventure<br />
Fourth of July 2019<br />
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign<br />
ake Hopatcong News<br />
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Mid Summer 2018<br />
Swimming Around<br />
Bridgete Hobart-Janeczko becomes the firs to swim the<br />
perimeter of Lake Hopatcong<br />
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NEW CAREER<br />
TAKES FLIGHT<br />
Mount Arlington’s P.J. Simonis<br />
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Chicken<br />
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LOCALLY<br />
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Je ferson farm comes alive<br />
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Bee-lieving<br />
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Answering<br />
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Firefighter honored for 70 years of service<br />
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•We lne s center opens in Hopatcong<br />
•Children’s author penning third book<br />
•Bridge to Liffy Island taking shape<br />
•DEP says no to carp in Lake Hopatcong<br />
Paying Tribute<br />
Local vets honored during boat ride around Lake Hopatcong<br />
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Happy Campers<br />
Sixteen years in and Camp Je ferson is sti l a l about good ole’ fashioned outdoor fun<br />
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• Smithsonian exhibi to open<br />
• King House expands offerings<br />
• 4H standout leading the way<br />
Vol. 10, No. 4<br />
• Road bowlers<br />
• Marching to the beat<br />
• Hopatcong honors two<br />
• Confusion at BRC meeting<br />
• State Aid Comparison<br />
• University Opens New Campus<br />
• What’s It Rea ly Worth?<br />
• Looking for Solutions to Lake’s I sues<br />
LAKE HOPATCONG NEWS <strong>Holiday</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
Inside this issue:<br />
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Plus: Food, LHC Meeting, In Brief, Busine s Directory, and Much More!<br />
Winter, 2014 Vol. 6, No. 1<br />
• Drawdown coming<br />
• Artist in residence<br />
• Bertrand Island revisited<br />
• Old-timers’ game days<br />
Je ferson's selfless citizens<br />
Hopatcong's super seniors<br />
Tuesday night jam session<br />
•Qua ry Silt S eps into Lake Hopatcong: DEP Slow to React<br />
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Be careful to select a dentist who has had extensive training for veneers. It is easy to miss critical factors that can affect the long-term success of your<br />
investment. Dr. Goldberg has performed this service for many patients over his 27 years as a dentist, and is extremely experienced with cosmetic dentistry.<br />
About the author: Dr. Ira Goldberg has been a dentist for 27 years, and maintains an extremely well-respected practice in Succasunna, NJ. He performs<br />
general dentistry procedures, cosmetic procedures, as well as dental implant procedures. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Implantology /<br />
Implant Dentistry, a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry, and a Scholar of the Dawson Academy for Complete Dentistry. He is also a lecturer in the<br />
field of implantology. To schedule a consultation, please call his office at (973) 328-1225 or visit his website at www.MorrisCountyDentist.com<br />
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