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The village of Lakewood will again go without a Fourth of July fireworks display due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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LAKEWOOD The village of Lakewood will again forgo its annual Fourth of July fireworks celebration this year.
Mayor Randy Holcomb said the annual event to celebrate the summer holiday will not be held due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Holcomb is optimistic that, because of the increase in COVID vaccinations, the ceremony will be held in 2022.
“There is interest among village trustees to hold this event,” Holcomb said, “but it is impossible to enforce social distancing within this program, so we can’t hold it.”
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Lakewood firefighters are pictured last week on Keller Road in the town of Busti, hours into battling a blaze that destroyed two properties and damaged several others.
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LAKEWOOD The hours of work that went into battling a massive fire that destroyed two properties and damaged several others late last week is being praised by village officials.
What’s even more impressive, Lakewood Mayor Randy Holcomb said of the Thursday fire on Keller Road that kept some firefighters on scene from 2 a.m. until the late morning, is that the department then held an in-person monthly meeting that evening.
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A grant from the Chautauqua Lake and Watershed Management Alliance has been issued to cover potential herbicide treatment of Chautauqua Lake this year. The grant was discussed during a meeting of the Lakewood Village Board this week.
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LAKEWOOD Village Mayor Randy Holcomb announced in his report to board members this week that the Chautauqua Lake and Watershed Management Alliance has issued a grant covering potential herbicide treatment of Chautauqua Lake in 2021.
The village had approved submitting its application for herbicides to the the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation at its previous meeting, but had noted that there were not currently budget funds available for treatment this year, should it be approved.
jyoung@post-journal.com The Lakewood Village Board this week authorized Solitude Lake Management to prepare its 2021 herbicide treatment application for submission to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
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The Lakewood Village Board this week authorized Solitude Lake Management to prepare its 2021 herbicide treatment application for submission to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
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LAKEWOOD The Lakewood Village Board authorized Solitude Lake Management to prepare its 2021 herbicide treatment application for submission to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation at its regular meeting Monday, after some clarification.
Deputy Mayor Ellen Barnes led the discussion of the application process due to the absence of Mayor Randy Holcomb, explaining that the village’s application will be for the use of Aquathol K to treat against curlyleaf pondweed.
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LAKEWOOD Months after reporting the department’s first rescue of a cat from a tree in “a number of years,” Lakewood Fire Department Chief Kurt Hallberg reported that first responders helped rescue a dog from a wall over the weekend.
“You really can’t make it up,” Hallberg said via Zoom during his report to the Lakewood Village Board during Monday’s meeting, noting that the dog ended up in a drywall wall through a void space caused by a bathtub.
“If you’ve ever seen a bathtub that’s upside down, on the edge where you’d put a sliding door, that adds a void space between the front and the back of the bathtub where it’s formed,” Hallberg said. “The dog went into where it used to be a cupboard for towels, got into the front of that bathtub and walked all the way down to the back of the bathtub and came to a drywall wall. We had to cut the drywall out and take the dog out from that end.”