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News Image Two RSS feeds provide daily/weekly headlines
Two RSS feeds automatically serve up the latest headlines from the Lakewood Online homepage feed and the city's weekly HTML eMagazine feed. They can come directly to your desktop or RSS-enabled phone.

RSS feeds act like a personal website checker and typically show headline links and short story summaries. Using the feeds is easy and free.
 

Click to review Lakewood's main RSS page
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News Image Service searches are quick and easy to use
To get help with city services Lakewood's residents can call customer service staff during regular business hours at 562-866-9771, extension 2140.

Help from a live service representative is bolstered by special online "service searches" and links. They're quick, comprehensive and easy to use.

Features include a Services by Address lookup, searchable municipal service guide, FAQs, a site index and more.
Click for the service searches homepage
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News Image Weblink offers full Lakewood Municipal Code
The Lakewood Online Weblink document center has been expanded to include the full Lakewood Municipal Code. It contains current ordinances (as amended) that have been adopted by the Lakewood City Council.

FAQs at the main Weblink page will assist you in searching the code.  Answers to questions about the sometimes cryptic documents are a phone call away. For building and zoning code questions call 562-866-9771, extenions 2300 and for municipal code questions call extenions 2200.

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News Image Finding parks and trails in Lakewood
Lakewood Online has two features for planning recreational activities and fitness workouts. The Park Finder and Trails and Routes pages contain collections of information and links about city parks, facilities, and popular fitness routes.
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News Image Service look-up gives instant information
Easy access to address-specific info is the goal of the “Services by address” look-up page. http://www.lakewoodcity.org/ServicesbyAddress

Find your Lakewood trash day, street sweeping day/time, ZIP Code, school district, water service provider, and zoning designations.

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News Image Lakewood Online: Feedback welcome
Lakewood Online isn’t just another pretty digital face. Beneath the skin lies a whole new way of getting and using city information. The city would welcome constructive feedback as visitors become more familiar with the new design.
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News Image Lakewood Online offers services phonebook, service portal, online forms
Lakewood Online has features that add up to better customer service and support for Lakewood’s commitment to 24/7 access to city hall. The city’s Web site contains a master telephone directory of service provider numbers that works a little like a service “portal” by giving residents links to many key service features.
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News Image Lakewood Connect: eMagazines and RSS are an ‘e-ticket’ to city information, service portal
eMagazines,  RSS content, and personal service accounts all help residents connect to their city. Lakewood's weekly eMagazines and RSS feeds provide timely news, links and event information. The eMagazine Archive provides a sampling of these illustrated editions that give insight into the community, issues and history. Webcasts of CityTV video segments are also online. All these are free Lakewood Online services and subscribers may opt-out at any time.
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News Image Use 'RSS' feed to get Lakewood Online notifications of news and updates
By taking advantage of Lakewood Online's RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed you can automatically get Lakewood Online news and updates delivered directly to your desktop! The "Homepage news" feed will update your feed reader with virtually all news story additions to Lakewood Online.
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News Image Lakewood Online now offers services phonebook, service portal
New and upcoming developments at Lakewood online add up to better customer service and an expansion of Lakewood’s commitment to 24/7 access to city hall. The city’s Web site now contains a master telephone directory of service provider numbers that works a little like a service “portal” by giving residents links to many key service features.
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News Image Online recreation sign-ups getting heavy use and rave reviews
Great user reviews keep coming in about the new Lakewood eCatalog recreation class sign-up system. Convenience and security have made it popular with participants.

Registration for summer programs is going on now. Seventy percent of sign-ups were completed using eCatalog.
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News Image City of Lakewood Online Privacy Policy
The City of Lakewood is committed to protecting online users’ privacy. We believe that protection of personal privacy on the Internet is our responsibility, to assure citizen confidence, increase participation in online activities, and support effective delivery of municipal services.

Lakewood Online intends to give users as much control as possible over their personal information. The purpose of our policy is to inform you about the types of information we gather when you visit our site, how we may use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to correct, the information.
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