Motzei Shabbos News Updates May 16 Lakewood

-Thousands visited the boardwalk and beaches at the Jersey shore over the weekend before the official opening for memorial day
-Bde: Reb Heshy Trainer z"l of Trainer studios in BP, legendary photographer of Gedolim and simchas for 75 years was niftar over shabbos at the age of 95 (Matzav article HERE)

-Baltimore Rabbonim Baltimore's Vaad HaRabbanim - Continue Current Procedures & Protocols not ready yet to reopen shuls or have minyanim keep social distancing but b"h the light at the end of the tunnel seems closer

-NJ 145,089 reported cases and 10,249 including 115 new deaths statewide on Saturday.
Gov. Phil Murphy announced that chartered boat services and watercraft rentals can resume at 6 a.m. Sunday. “Every metric has shown us we can move forward,” Murphy said. But the governor called on residents to keep practice social distancing “even as we take our steps toward our recovery.”

-Lakewood 5 new cases  2099/128, Toms River 1342/106, Brick 982/96, Jackson 760/42

- Rabbi  Knopfler will be interviewed on the Zev Brenner show  12:00 am here

-Lamont Repollet, the New Jersey Commissioner of Education, is leaving that post to become the president of Kean University. Lakewood school district has previously bet on Repollet, as a former neighbor on the Jersey Shore when he was superintendent in Asbury Park and  Lakewood board member, Thea Jackson-Byers, worked for Repollet in Asbury Park schools and Sen. Robert Singer, R-Ocean, said he’d spoken to Repollet about how to fix the funding problem."