Local NewsHomeless of Lakewood's Tent City won't leave for storm
Posted: Aug 27th, 2011 11:11 PM
Shelters have been arranged for the homeless people living in Tent City here but some have chosen to remain with the few belongings and pets that they have left, said the Rev. Steven A. Brigham, founder and resident caretaker of the encampment.
People who live in the woods along Cedar Bridge Avenue near Clover Street have ... Read More
Local NewsHurricane Irene heading straight for New Jersey
Posted: Aug 25th, 2011 4:32 PM
Hurricane Irene could have a devastating impact in New Jersey, the state climatologist said today.
If Irene “moved right over New Jersey, we could be just devastated,” said David A. Robinson, the New Jersey state climatologist at Rutgers University.
Gov. Chris Christie today declared a state of emergency in New ... Read More
Local NewsRoute 9 Bridge Submerged By Floodwaters In Howell; all lanes closed
Posted: Aug 22nd, 2011 8:54 AM
HOWELL — Route 9 is closed in both directions between Strickland and Bergerville roads, and traffic is being detoured around the area, due to flooding conditions that have submerged the Manasquan River crossing there, police said.
Detours are being set up by a state Department of Transportation diversion team and a state ... Read More
Local NewsTent City Fundraiser To Be Held At Bar Anticipation
Posted: Aug 20th, 2011 11:22 PM
On Friday evening Aug. 26, Walk The Walk Foundation, a nonprofit organization, will hold a fundraiser at Bar Anticipation to benefit Tent City, a homeless encampment in Lakewood.
“The Foundation is looking to raise money to purchase 15 tents for the Tent City community,” Paige Ferrante from Walk The Walk said.
The ... Read More
Local NewsNew Jersey Tent City Houses 70 Homeless People Who Draw Community Scorn
Posted: Aug 12th, 2011 1:12 AM
Marilyn Berenzweig was a successful New York textile designer who loved her work and comfortable lifestyle. For the past year, however, she and her husband have been living in a tent city in the New Jersey woods.
"The weather, the bugs, the dirt; I think it's the dirt that really gets to me," she said. "It's not like you ... Read More
Local NewsRetiring Police To Deplete Force In Lakewood
Posted: Aug 8th, 2011 10:04 AM
LAKEWOOD — Law enforcement retirements have trimmed the Lakewood Police Department from 130 to 113 officers over the last year and a half. Currently, 11 of those positions are not being filled, officials said.
Three top posts are vacant from the department’s administration, including one of two deputy chiefs, one of ... Read More
Local NewsAirTran Airways to end service at Atlantic City airport
Posted: Aug 2nd, 2011 9:03 AM
AirTran Airways will end its flights between Atlantic City International Airport and Atlanta in January.
The carrier blames the economy and higher fuel prices.
A two-year, $4 million subsidy agreement with the South Jersey Transportation Authority will expire in September.
Monday's announcement leaves the airport with ... Read More
Local NewsLakewood Schools Name New Officials
Updated: Jul 30th, 2011 10:38 PM
The Lakewood Board of Education named three key positions that will start the high school year with new faces in administration. Albert Gilson was named Lakewood High School principal at the July 1 board meeting. He was hired at a salary of $135,921. He replaces Principal Tina Yuli who was moved to the Ella G. Clarke Elementary ... Read More
Local NewsTwo Stabbed In Lakewood; Cops Search For Black Honda Civic
Posted: Jul 28th, 2011 9:27 AM
Two stabbing victims were transported to a trauma unit and police are searching for a black car in which police believe the suspects were riding, according to local police Lt. Louis Sasso.
Police confirmed earlier that the stabbings happened on Fourth Street in front of the Community Center.
The victims, who are ... Read More
Local NewsLakewood High School Awarded $6 Million Federal Grant
Posted: Jul 22nd, 2011 2:13 AM
The Lakewood School District has received notification that it will receive a federal School Improvement Grant - worth about $6 million over three years, said Michael I. Inzelbuch, school board attorney.
The money is part of $11.6 million given to New Jersey from the federal government. School districts were awarded money ... Read More
Local NewsChristie Approves Medical Marijuana Implementation
Posted: Jul 20th, 2011 11:51 PM
"I have instructed the Commissioner of Health to move forward as expeditiously as possible to implement the medical marijuana program in New Jersey as outlined in the regulatory scheme and the statutory scheme set up by the Legislature and by the Executive Branch," said Governor Chris Christie yesterday. "In consultation with ... Read More
Local NewsFBI Raids Homes of Suspected Hackers
Posted: Jul 19th, 2011 9:20 AM
FBI officials are searching the Long Island and Brooklyn homes of three suspected members of a hacking group that most recently targeted Arizona police officers in retaliation for that state's controversial immigration laws, FoxNews.com reports.
More than 10 FBI agents arrived at the Baldwin, N.Y., home of Giordani Jordan ... Read More
Local NewsLack Of License Halts Kids' Day Program
Posted: Jul 10th, 2011 7:16 PM
A summer program that provided free daily lunch and activities for children at the local library was abruptly shut down by the state last week, angering township officials.
“It boggles my mind that the state would come in and shut down something like this,” said Township Committeeman Raymond Coles. “If we can figure a ... Read More
Local NewsLakewood Forms Committee To Tackle Utility Complaints
Posted: Jul 7th, 2011 3:43 PM
Mayor Menashe Miller told residents they no longer have to stand alone when going up against utility companies. The township has formed a committee to act specifically as liaison between utility ratepayers and the utility companies.
Mike McNeil, Bill Hobday, Tzvi Rosenberg, Shabsi Ganzweig and Greg Stafford Smith will ... Read More
Local NewsWhat’s Open, Closed On Fourth of July
Updated: Jul 4th, 2011 9:44 AM
Today is Independence Day. It is a federal and state holiday.
• Post offices will be closed. There will be no regular mail delivery.
• State and local government officesand courts in New Jersey will be closed.
• Financial markets, stock markets and banks will be closed.
• NJ Transit trains will operate ... Read More
Local NewsIrene more than 200 miles away: Shore pelted with rain
Posted: Aug 27th, 2011 9:19 PM
With Hurricane Irene on the way, bands of torrential rain are hitting Monmouth and Ocean counties and winds are picking up.
Irene is expected to pass very close to the New Jersey coast late tonight into Sunday morning, with gusts to nearly 100 mph over coastal waters, dangerous flooding and severe beach erosion expected, ... Read More
Local NewsLakewood Township Celebrates Labor Day with Fireworks
Posted: Aug 22nd, 2011 8:55 AM
Lakewood Township, N.J., will be celebrating Labor Day with fireworks on Sunday, September 4. The fireworks display will begin around 9:00 p.m. and can be viewed near Lake Carasaljo (off Route 9) either from North or South Lake Drive.
The fireworks had originally been scheduled around the Fourth of July; however, extremely ... Read More
Local NewsNY/NJ Port Authority Board Raises Tolls, Fares
Posted: Aug 20th, 2011 11:48 PM
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey board approved toll and fares hikes on its bridges, tunnels and trains.
Nine of the 12 commissioners were present for the agency's board meeting at its Manhattan headquarters. They voted unanimously for the increases.
Drivers will pay $1.50 more to enter New York from New ... Read More
Local NewsWooden huts come down in Lakewood's Tent City
Posted: Aug 16th, 2011 7:27 AM
Marilyn Berenzweig has again lost her home, this time in Tent City, a camp for the homeless.
The 60-year-old textile designer from Jamaica Estates, N.Y., had been living in a 12-foot-by-12-foot wooden hut in the woods off Cedar Bridge Avenue near Clover Street, a community popularly known as Tent City.
But Monday was the ... Read More
Local NewsOrthodox Couple Fined $300 For Having Apple, Tomato, 3 Cucumbers In Backpack At Newark Liberty
Posted: Aug 12th, 2011 1:09 AM
A family of four from Florida visiting relatives in New Jersey got an unwelcome surprise at the Customs gate — all because of some forgotten fruit and vegetables.
The oversight was an expensive one that has the family fuming, reports CBS 2’s Sean Hennessey.
“I don’t have to be traumatized like this. Nobody should ... Read More
Local NewsTonight - Lakewood's Annual Night Out Against Crime
Posted: Aug 2nd, 2011 2:16 PM
Today August 2nd is Lakewood's Police Department's Annual "Night Out Against Crime Fair" it will tak place at Pin Park between the hours of 4:00 PM and 8:00 PM. “Our purpose is to have our public safety professionals and volunteers meet and enjoy an evening of fun, food and entertainment”, says LPD Captain Greg Meyer, ... Read More
Local NewsStorm Knocks Out Power To 20,000 In Ocean County
Updated: Jul 30th, 2011 10:38 PM
More than 20,000 customers were without power in Ocean County after a violent, fast-moving storm downed power lines and trees Friday night.
Brick and Lakewood were hit the hardest, with Jersey Central Power & Light reporting that between 5,000 to 10,000 customers were without electricity in each town by 9:30 p.m. The ... Read More
Local NewsLakewood Apartments Evacuated After Storm Blows Roof Off
Updated: Jul 30th, 2011 10:39 PM
Emergency personnel evacuated 62 people from the Peter Ward Tower apartment building on Woehr Avenue after part of its roof blew off during the storm Friday evening.
Residents were evacuated to a shelter set up by the Red Cross at the Lakewood High School, officials said.
“The damage is extensive but the good news is ... Read More
Local NewsLakewood Man, 93 Stabbed To Death In House
Posted: Jul 24th, 2011 10:55 PM
A 93-year-old man was stabbed to death in the kitchen of his Lakewood home Sunday, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.
Lakewood police found the body of Victor Didonato in the kitchen of his home at 115 Petty Place in the Lion Head Woods retirement community. His abdomen was punctured with what appeared to ... Read More
Local NewsSnow Saves NJ From Summer Drought Watch
Posted: Jul 20th, 2011 11:52 PM
All that snow we had this winter in New Jersey was good for something. During this July heat wave, the drought threat is very low, even with multiple days of temps in the 90's.
Meterologist Keith Arnesson at Rutgers University says the water supplies statewide are in good shape. "Reservoirs, lakes and streams are at 95 ... Read More
Local News9-year-old bicyclist hit by car in Lakewood
Posted: Jul 20th, 2011 11:35 PM
A 9-year-old township boy was hospitalized following a crash Wednesday afternoon, police said.
The youth was struck at 1:55 p.m. by a car traveling east on Seventh Street, just 700 feet west of Park Avenue, according to Lt. Louis Sasso of the Lakewood police.
Sasso said the child was taken by Hatzolah rescue squad to the ... Read More
Local NewsFire Classy Cleaners Fully Engulfed In Flames
Posted: Jul 15th, 2011 9:38 AM
Just as the fire seemed to be under control at around 12:30 AM, the whole roof erupted into a ball of fire, causing commanding chiefs to tell all firefighters to back away from the building. For the next hour the whole roof was engulfed in flames; no amount of water or foam seemed to be putting the fire out.
At about ... Read More
Local NewsExperts Say: Thunderstorms Rake The Area, But It's Not Unusual
Posted: Jul 8th, 2011 1:57 AM
Hold on to your umbrella.
Fast moving thunderstorms, many of which hammered the state in recent weeks with wind, flooding and a tornado scare in Jackson, may be with us for a while longer this summer.
Many of the powerful storms have hit Monmouth and Ocean counties, causing at least one death.
“It seems that things ... Read More
Local NewsTONIGHT: Prepare for Maseches Chullin, A Fascinating Live Demonstration
Posted: Jul 4th, 2011 11:32 AM
The Daf Yomi Commission – Agudath Israel of America is proud to present a Practical Laws Of Shechita & Treifos. A Fascinating Live demonstration (In English) by the author Rabbi Ben David.
Monday July 4th at 9PM (Maariv 8:45) The Capitol Hotel. Read More
Local NewsUpdated Levaya & Hook Up Info
Posted: Jun 30th, 2011 10:01 AM
The Levaya for the Rosh HaYeshiva, Maran HaRav Chaim Stein Zatzal, will be held at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, Thursday, June 30th, at Telshe Yeshiva in Wickliffe, Ohio.
The aron will then arrive in Lakewood, where a Levaya will be held in Bais Medrash Govoha (7th Street) at approximately 1:30 p.m.
There will not be a levaya at ... Read More
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