Week in Review: School Gets More Cash, WTC Steel

Another week, another batch of interesting stories in Hopatcong.

Our Week In Review gives you a chance to catch up on the biggest headlines. If you've got any news tips, e-mail Hopatcong Patch at brendan@patch.com.

MO' MONEY Hopatcong will get about $700,000 more state aid in 2011-12 than it did in 2010-11. Click here for more.

MO' PROBLEMS New Jersey school districts But there's a twist: the administration wants most of them to use the money for property tax relief. Click here for more.

LIGHT IT UP The Hopatcong school district's much-anticipated solar project began Friday with the start of renovations to the middle school's roof. The project is expected to save Hopatcong $3 million in energy costs over 15 years, officials say. We have photos and reaction from Director of Grounds Neil Piro.

NOT FUNKY TOWN—SAFETY TOWN Hopatcong students learned traffic safety at Hudson Maxim on Thursday. It's part of a two-week program run by volunteers, featuring borough emergency services.

HISTORY COMING TO HOPATCONG World Trade Center steel will arrive in the borough on Thursday at 1 p.m. The steel beams, which will bookend Hopatcong's 9/11 monument, are 9 and 11 feet tall, respectively.

LAKE HOPATCONG COMMISSION SURVIVES The comission, charged a decade ago with ensuring Lake Hopatcong's health, won't go bankrupt. Rather, it will end weed harvesting earlier than ever.