Tuesday Jan 5 News Updates Lakewood

 Weather: Generally cloudy. High 41F

-Lakewood Township's Planning Board granted approval to build 20 duplex structures (40 housing units) in the current woods near Cross Street and Massachusetts Avenue. This application is adjacent to 60 duplex units approved last month. (LNN) read more here

- 59 New covid cases in Lakewood +3 deaths totals 8438/234

Food distribution:

OTL box at Mekor Hatorah180 Sims 6:30 pm

Tashbar 6:45 pm Oak street 

-Trump: Washington is being inundated with people who don’t want to see an election victory stolen by emboldened Radical Left Democrats. Our Country has had enough, they won’t take it anymore! We hear you (and love you) from the Oval Office. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

-There will not be a Bus from Lakewood to Washington DC tomorrow but there are some groups that are going 

-Mega Millions jackpot is $446 million for tonight’s drawing and Powerball is  $410 million Wednesday night.

-Israel to impose strict lockdown starting Thursday Netanyahu warned The mutation is out of control, and here, too, we see a rise,” “The hospitals are warning that we are entering the most dangerous wave since the start of the pandemic and that if we don’t act immediately, we’ll lose many more people.”

-Rav Chaim Kanievsky will give a ruling on chadorim if they should close for 10 days with the expected lockkdown.

-Trump: The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.

-Mayor de Blasio calls for full travel ban from U.K. to New York City

-Lakewood MUA today voted to increase the fees they charge property owners to connect to their water and sewer lines. Residential homes and commercial uses were increased $159 (total $4,560) for water connection and $80 (total $1,707) for sewer connection. (Lnn)

- 39 Shop Rite stores in NJ are offering Covid vaccinations. Two in Ocean County  Fischer Boulevard, Toms River and ShopRite of Manahawkin. 

-New Jersey, for the third consecutive year, has topped the list of Most Moved from States in 2020. According to the 2020 National Migration Study by United Van Lines, in 2020, more residents were moving out of the Garden State than into the state, as 70% of moves were outbound.

-There is a meis mitzva levaya today at Freehold Hebrew Benefit Society Cemetery 164 Business Rt. 33 Freehold, NJ Kevura at 10:30 am.

-Bde: Petirah  of Reb Avraham Mordechai Grunwald Z"L (95) Levaya at the 7th street chapel at 10:00 am. Kevurah in EY.

- IRS: You can now track your stimulus payment you can check online whether or not the agency has sent your second stimulus payment at Get My Payment tool

-The zoning board carried their entire agenda to a special meeting which will be held next Monday due to a deficiency in the legal advertisements of the agenda items.(lnn)