Wednesday June 19 News Updates Lakewood

Weather: 89° Partly cloudy. High 89F

Heat Advisory Until Fri 6:00 am heat index values up to 100 degrees. For the Excessive Heat Watch, dangerously hot conditions with heat index values up to 105 possible.

- Louisiana becomes 1st U.S. state to require the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms

- Tehillim for The Kosove Rebbe was taken into the hospital today with high fever and was put on a respirator. Name is  Shraga Feivish ben Malka.

-Toms River Township Board of Education signs an agreement with the LSTA to handle their busing obligation for all nonpublic school students Agudah of NJ reports 

- Gedolei Eretz Yisrael  who  will be arriving in the US on Sunday will be attending a fundraising event in Lakewood on Sunday as they look to raise 100 million for yeshivos in E"Y there will also a be an event on Monday in NYC at the meridian capital offices

- Ishay Ribo Elul concert coming back to Madison Square Garden  on Sep 15 with special guests Idan Raichel and Eviatar Banai.

-The July 4th fireworks in Lakewood will take place on Sunday July 7th at Lake Carasaljo 9:15 pm

-Last night at the Nshei Adirei hatorah event  for girls in the shidduch age the Lakewood Roshei yeshiva graced the dais as Rav Tzvi Kushlevsky and rav Simcha Scheinberg addressed the crowd. there was music as the Roshei yeshiva danced on the stage and Rav Tzvi Kushelevsky held his baby to show  Emunah and Bitachon.

- US Post office banks and federal ofices closed today for Junteenth However, New Jersey state govt offices  will be open for business on today Wednesday because the Garden State will commemorate Juneteenth on Friday. The reason? New Jersey officials recognized the date as a holiday before the federal government did.

- Adirei hatorah officials already looking for a larger venue to host next Event possibly closer to NY now that a chazaka bas been established 

-Russia signs mutual defense alliance with North Korea

-Jack Ciattarelli has 33-point lead, over conservative talk show host Bill Spadea among likely Republican primary voters in next year’s NJ governor’s race, 44%-11%

-The New Jersey Education Association  teachers union PAC has endorsed Sean Spiller, the NJEA president and mayor of Montclair, for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2025.

- Lakewood Township's Planning Board on Tuesday night approved a new 64 duplex unit development off of the New Hampshire Avenue and Locust street intersection.

Engineer Brian Flannery cheerfully assured the Board "the existing trees may cause forest fires, building duplexes is a much better idea!"  The shul, which will contain a kiddush room, warming kitchen, and mikvah in the basement, will receive 67 off- street parking spaces. See more more to this on faanews 

-Bike,Blade & Ball For Bicycle will have bike  Rentals at  Lake Carasaljo

TravelingTykes Marina, LLC. will have Boat Rentals at Lake Carasaljo

 -Lakewood township will be paying more to purchase the property at  220 3rd Street, for parking up from the original agreed price of $1.7 million to $1,85 million 

- Tax increase Lakewood will be increasing up to 3.5% over the previous year’s final appropriations, of 2.5% going from $2,386,409.22 to $3,340,972.91, 

- Lakewood township will be applying a   $74,000 grant  The Local Recreation Improvement Grant (LRIG) to carry out a project to enhance the public community garden located in the John Patrick Sports Complex including installing benches, a permanent shade structure, ADA-compliant paved pathways, elevated garden beds, a storage shed, and rain barrels