I've always wondered the same thing, too, Michelle! We receive not only our phone service through Morris County, but also our electricity as well as our cable. A few years back, then Mayor Dick Hodson had made a statement along the lines of Hopatcong should succeed from Sussex County and become a part of Morris County. Our town is somewhat like a "no man's land" - we receive very little coverage (unless it is, for the most part, negative) in either the New Jersey Herald or the the Daily Record. The most positive headlines I can recall was when the High School won it's first football championship in 2001. If you check out the Sunday Herald for real estate, you will find virtually no listings for Hopatcong - but you will find them in the Record. It's strange - Hopatcong in its heyday was THE place for the wealthy to vacation and hobnob...and now it's grandness is something that exists as whispers in the lake breeze.

Last year I came home to see a white van driving around tossing phone books on driveways. I picked mine up and walked towards the house annoyed that this would be going straight into recycling. As I came to the door, the van threw yet another phone book on my driveway.
I'm simply amazed that not only do phone books get printed but that there is no way to opt out of them. I feel that if people want a physical phone book they should be able to order them and pick them up.
Between the gas these drivers are wasting and the amount of phone books being printed and then tossed it's not very healthy to the environment.

Hopatcong....The Redheaded stepchild of Sussex County. When I worked up in the town of Sussex they had no idea my town was part of their county.

I am glad Hopatcong is considered more a part of morris than sussex - You can't receive Cablevision or Verizon service in Sussex county but we are lucky to be able to receive the service - This doesn't bother me at all that Hopatcong is stuck in the middle - Lets just get Hopatcong cleaned up and get business into the town - revitalize the lower river styx area to bring in lake traffic as well as local and neighboring residents - Hopatcong could be a better clean looking town if residents and town government would do their part and get more involved

I think a town has to have a strong identity in order for its people to have pride and feel motivated. Without it, a town becomes only a bedroom community where everything else is satisfied outside of the town. It is hard to revitalize a town where no one is an active participant in it. Their has to be more than a shorter commute to work than a house in PA and cheaper taxes than Morris/Bergen/Essex county.

Watcher - I agree that open bidding on Cable companies could render a better deal for the people in Hopatcong. Why would any company sweeten the deal for us if they think there is no competition. It would also be nice to know when these bids occur. Right now they have stopped giving direct access to view the Borough's list of bills at Town Meetings. Now you have to submit an OPRA report to get them and pay for a copy. So for us citizens to know who is bidding on cable contracts in our town we will have to consult our crystal balls for the latest development or wait till it is done deal with their announcement on Patch. Then they can put their apple polish on this on how it was such an attractive deal they couldn't refuse.