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Lodi

[ law-dee loh-dahy ]

noun

  1. a town in N Italy, SE of Milan: Napoleon's defeat of the Austrians 1796.
  2. a city in central California, near Sacramento.
  3. a city in NE New Jersey.


Lodi

/ ˈlɔːdi /

noun

  1. a town in N Italy, in Lombardy: scene of Napoleon's defeat of the Austrians in 1796. Pop: 40 805 (2001)


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Lodi is home to about 24,000 residents and protected by a department of about 45 officers.

Lodi’s police contract didn’t say cops were guaranteed the departure payouts.

The Policemen’s Benevolent Association Local 26 in Lodi challenged the action before the Public Employment Relations Commission, a state body that hears public employment disputes and gives binding orders to towns.

When he was chief in Lodi, he got complaints that officers were reading the newspaper or looked like they were sleeping on extra duty jobs.

Vincent Caruso was a cop in Lodi for 27 years, including a dozen as police chief.

They were reading the Lodi News-Sentinel and the Indianapolis Star and the Milwaukee Journal.

But the “head-trained” (as opposed to snaked into a wire trellis) vines in Lodi, Calif., are anywhere from 40 to 100 years old.

We can only wonder how far the Lodi plot would have advanced had law enforcement acquiesced.

Arcola, Lodi, Milan—eighteen pitched battles, forty-seven smaller engagements.

Bonaparte commonly wore a black silk cravat, and in it he fought at Lodi, Marengo, and Austerlitz.

In another was Napoleon, flag in hand, leading the charge across the bridge of Lodi.

Pray write to me at Lodi, and, if this reaches you safely, I will write longer by the same way.

However, though seemingly settled at Lodi, I was ever ready to return home when called.

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