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- Lakewood mayor Ray Coles will continue serving as mayor in 2024 reappointed by the committee for an 8th consecutive term. It used to be a rotation among members but that has not happened. As it was during covid the reorganization meeting taking place and swearing in ceremony is scheduled to be done remotely
- Lakewood car crashes have jumped 69% in 20 years. So what are they going to do about it? APP reports on Lakewood dangerous roadsIn an average year, over 1,100 people are injured in Lakewood accidents and seven people die.The percentage of crashes at intersections is higher in Lakewood than any other town in Ocean County. See full report
- Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch shlita will be coming to America on behalf of Skabodka yeshiva and will spend time in Lakewood
- Playground and swingsets at the Lakewood township park on North Lake Drive and 2nd st on Lake Carasaljo street have been removed by the township for possible replacement of new equipment.
- Loft Strakhouse from Brooklyn opening Lakewood location on Rt 70 within next few months
- Borsalino hats opening Jackson store next to NPGS shopping plaza, current Lakewood location is at Seagull Sq mall
- Lakewood Shomrim has issued an urgent advisory to the community. They urge potential renters to be extremely cautious when engaging in rental agreements, especially those initiated online. After a recent incident where renters contacted a landlord on Facebook paid money and were instructed to enter a home via a backbdoor that did not belong to the so called landlord. Tye homeowner who was alarmed to find a group of unknown individuals enter the home. Shomrim emphasizes the importance of verifying the identity of the landlord and the legitimacy of the rental offer.
- Burglars have been targeting and stealing luxury cars in Lakewood and Jackson,several stolen cars were recovered in Howell
If all those from Brooklyn would learn how to use a turn signal, maybe the accident rate would drop
ReplyDeleteNot sure why people are always commenting blaming this on Brooklyn people. People born and raised in Lakewood don't signal just as much if not more than Brooklyners.
DeleteAnother idiot with a stupid comment. This anti-Brooklyn needs to stop. R' Aaron Kotler lived in Brooklyn, all of Lakewood is originally Brooklyn. Maybe if people drove more courteously and less aggressively this would not be happening. The rates of accidents are higher in Lakewood than in Brooklyn, per 1000 cars on the road. The more yeshivish the driver, the greater the aggression, cutting off, riding on shoulder, and turning way after the light turns. As someone who's lived here 45+years, it's been a horrible progression of aggression and disregard to others. Maybe they are using the excuse of bitul torah to justify it?
DeleteAll are originally ?!
Deletedue gets mad about stereotyping brooklyn people then goes on to stereotype "yeshivish" drivers. what a hypocrite. Of course, he is lying when he says that he's lived here for 45 years. probably moved here from brooklyn last week.
DeleteBoth of you are anonymous.
DeleteYou're both welcome to post names.
But we take people as yashar until proven other.
However your assumptions about him tells us probably about you
He at least posted a moniker.
DeleteYou are anonymous
Likely he is the yashar
Borsolino sure. Another location to milk the Yungerlite for hats that should cost $100 Tops. We should really boycott them
ReplyDeleteI don't buy Borsalino. You don't have to either. That's not a boycott. That's just buying cheaper as many people should learn to do.
DeleteWhy are we supporting the non-jewish Borsalino company?
ReplyDeleteas opposed to the jewish borsalino company?
DeleteTotal number of crashes up 69% in 20 years when the population has increased by 125% in the same timeframe.
ReplyDeleteWith all of the traffic issues and unsafe driving behavior, Baruch Hashem for the nissim that we at least have fewer crashes per capita!
Wonder if they will downsize the park like they did to Sunset park? Where did the perfect working playground that was by Sunset go? Was a totally unnecessary downgrade by the township!
ReplyDeleteWho is in power longer Putin or Ray Coles
ReplyDeleteThen why do the people keep voting him into office?
DeleteThe people are clueless and taken advantage of told who to vote for and they follow like sheep. Everyone else either moved out or gave up. This is a dictatorship by the hands of a few who are using the voters for their own gain
DeleteDitto.
DeleteThis town will be used for reference in the future. If some people will be still surprised how fascism,communism, or other forms of gov't that officially termed themselves Democracy, carried on happily with seeming public approval
Mr. Cohen: You never fail to impress with your high level of genius. David French level stuff.
DeleteDavid French is a self adulating turncoat,all for a bowl of (libertarian) lentils or pot of libertarian gold at the end of the apt contemporary metaphorical rainbow. Any comparison as such therefore would be in gross negligent error.
DeleteCue the conservative doyen Russell Kirk:"venture to suggest that libertarianism, properly understood, is as alien to real American conservatism as is communism,” he wrote. The conservative “is suspicious of any ideology that would rule us by a single abstract principle, whether that principle is ‘equality’ or ‘liberty’ or ‘social justice’ or " 'MAGA'
4wheeldrive, Sorry but everything undesirable in Lakewood comes from Brooklyn, the idea that it's a mechaya to have attached housing, and live on each other's heads, to be rude, suspect anyone you don't know as being from the moon, fress out at restaurants daily and pày by food stamps, eat like a pig, blow your nose in the shower, etc etc
ReplyDeleteBecause you're originally from Lakewood?
Deleteblow your nose in the shower? that's a new one.
Deletealso, i highly doubt that restaurants accept food stamps
Generally when I see a driver not signaling or doing some other dangerous/annoying driving (like speeding up and trying to make a light or turning LEFT more than 5 seconds after the light turned RED), I can virtually GUARANTEE that it's someone with a NY license plate (or a PA license plate) !!!!!
ReplyDelete(It is actually ILLEGAL to have a vehicle registered in a state different than the one you live in.)
The oilam is stressed out.
ReplyDeletePer regular posts on R'Yudel's site,
ReplyDeleteQueens has been in much worse shape for a while than other boroughs
Mainly because Queens appears to be a maze with no actual solution, designed by drunk planners wondering if anyone would catch on.
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