Wednesday April 21 News Updates Lakewood

Weather: Mostly cloudy skies with showery rains and a possible rumble of thunder in the afternoon. Storms may contain strong gusty winds. High 68F. Winds SW at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90%

-10 new covid cases in Lakewood totals 13558/303

- 9:00 pm IDF: A surface-to-air missile was fired from Syria to Israel’s southern Negev.

In response, we struck the battery from which the missile was launched and additional surface-to-air batteries in Syria

Food Distribution:

- Bnos Esther Malka Shabbos  box  5:30 pm

488 Whitsville rd across Westgate

- Tehilas Chaya Sara 7 day box for all children under 18 who are not receiving school meals, Tonighr at 8:30 PM. 1115 Cross Street

-TRJCC has arranged USDA Meals boxes for all Toms River residents from 7pm-9pm.  at The Hatzolah Garage in Toms River 2139 Lakewood Rd (Rt 9.) Toms River, NJ. 

- OTL box at SCHI Oak st and Center on Prospect st 7:00 pm

- Bnos Melech Weekday B'gan box & R&S Shabbos box 7:30 pm 550 James st

- Belz school at Chestnut at 5:45 pm

- Yeshiva at 1839 New Central distribution  at 1:30 pm 

- Due to weqther (Gelbsteins public school pick up is Thursday April 22, 2021) 

- LPD Ticketing  cars around BMG on 6th street

- Chris Christie is seriously considering running for president in 2024. He's told friends he'd be the only person in the 2024 field with executive experience who has run a presidential race before — a clear shot at Gov. Ron DeSantis. 

- NJSP troopers all over ticketing with unmarked cars

-Township requested more permitted uses at Cedarbridge corp park such as wedding halls, hospitals, medical offices, hotels with only 8 parking spots per 1000 sq feet. The planning board recommended to require 1 parking spot per seat in a hall or per bed and not before Pine st is dualized to 2 lanes each way. The township will vote on it tomorrow night.

-BOE meeting tonight will  appoint Michael Inzelbuch as general counsel  effective, July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022, by the recommendation of the Members of the Board of Education 

- Moshe Gleiberman, VP, Administrator of Beth Medrash Govoha, is expected this week to be appointed by Lakewood's Twp Committee to Lakewood's Zoning Board for a term ending Dec 31, 2023. He will fill the seat held by Obed Gonzalez who resigned from the board when he moved away. (Reporter Moshe) 

-Coalition talks between the Likud and the Yamina party hit an impasse on Wednesday,a with the Likud accusing Yamina leader MK Naftali Bennett of making excessive demands for his seven seats. In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, the Likud also said Bennett was preparing to lead a left-wing government supported by Yesh Atid, Labor, Meretz and the Joint List.

“Due to his uncontrollable ambition to become prime minister at any price – with just seven seats – he is prepared to empower the left with a coalition of 50 MKs from the left and the Joint List.

“Bennett is doing this against the will of the voters who gave 65 seats for a completely right-wing government, and against his clear promise not to sit under Yair Lapid and the left, and despite the fact that a prime minister can’t govern with seven seats.