Here's a look at the top stories from the last week on Patch.

• School district officials announced this week that after nearly four months of mold remediation and remodeling, the Cecil S. Collins School will reopen Monday.

• We followed Gov. Chris Christie's State of the State address Tuesday and brought you a summary of his speech, in which he calls for an across-the-board tax cut and education reform.

• The Barnegat Board of Education replied to last week's attacks on its budgeting and surplus from the Township Committee by lobbing fierce criticisms of its own at the town officials during the regular BOE meeting Tuesday. Its budgeting process is above board and open to the public, officials said, and the significant surplus stashed away in recent years was the result of careful planning. Meanwhile, said board members, the township has budgeted poorly, and has missed dozens of its required payments of residents' tax dollars to the school district in the last few years.

• The Environmental Protection Agency released an interactive mapping tool this week that displays industrial greenhouse gas contributors around the country. we laid out the biggest sources of carbon dioxide and methane for our area.

• A Brick woman created an online petition to support a Stafford Township man arrested on LBI for feeding feral cats last month. The petition and story have circulated on the Web, and since our last reporting, signatures have increased to more than 1,400.

• On Friday, we took a look at the state's new wine distribution law, which allows small wineries in and out of New Jersey to ship directly to customers and retailers. Wineries pushed for the new legislation and are happy about the expanded rules, but some say the change could undermine the state's long-established three-tier alcohol distribution process.