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Hopatcong To Celebrate Arbor Day With Seedling Giveaway

Hopatcong Borough will give away some seedlings this Saturday.

HOPATCONG, NJ — Hopatcong Borough will celebrate Arbor Day by giving away seedlings to residents.

Hopatcong Borough residents can go to the Borough Hall Parking Lot, 111 River Styx Road from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday.

Supply is limited — first come, first served.

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New Jersey celebrates Arbor Day on the last Friday in April, which this year is April 30. The Garden State celebrated its first Arbor Day in 1884.

The nation's first Arbor Day occurred 12 years prior in Nebraska, where more than one million trees were planted. Each state had a law designating Arbor Day by the 1920s.

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