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Pavement opens up on Grand Avenue nue,” Herman said. “I volunteer at the Baldwin Historical Society and Museum, and we will be Pedestrians and motorists got closed every Sunday until this is a sinking feeling when a large over.” As community members wait section of pavement on Grand Avenue in Baldwin suddenly for the roadway to be repaired, opened up on June 27. Nassau County Legislator Debra Sewage started seeping up Mulé suggested that they consult from the ground after a 42-inch navigation apps to find out how sewer main cracked long they will be open, creating a waiting in traffic. sinkhole that has “This is a major rendered parts of inconvenience for the road inoperable the people who live until at least July 15, in that area, and officials said. there’s no question The crater has about that,” Mulé caused a major said. “But I hope headache for area that people will residents and motorunderstand that this ists. is work that absoBaldwin resident lutely has to be done Maureen Her man DEBRA MUlÉ on an emergency said that she hasn’t Nassau County basis.” driven down Grand legislator Mulé sent letters Avenue, and that if to county, state and she needed to get to federal officials, urgNorth Baldwin, she would be ing them to prioritize repairs to forced to take the Southern State the county’s aging infrastrucParkway to the Meadowbrook ture. and then to Freeport. Although Chief William Dworsak of the she doesn’t smell the sewage, the Baldwin Fire Department has traffic detours have caused plen- received assurance that the ty of aggravation. South Hempstead Fire Depart“I feel so bad for Stu-Art and ment will assist Baldwin’s north Malkin Appliances and all the fire companies with emergency other businesses on Grand AveConTinuEd on PagE 20
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Sean Wachter came away with the East Coast Professional Wrestling Tag Team Championships and raised thousands of dollars for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in honor of the late Capt. Michael Fischer.
Taking cancer to the mat
Oceanside man, a local pro wrestler, raises money for fallen hero By KEPHERD DANIEl kdaniel@liherald.com
Arm bars, suplexes and figure-four leg locks were on full display at the Michael Fischer Memorial Fundraiser, a professional wrestling event at American Legion Post 246 in Baldwin last Saturday. The event was created with the help of Oceanside resident Sean Wachter to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the fight against cancer, and as a tribute to Wachter’s friend Fischer, 38, a member of the Island Park Fire Department who lost his life last summer in a line-of-duty death. Fischer, who was known as Fish, suffered cardiac arrest at Peter’s Clam House, in Island
Park, while helping his fellow firefighters raise money for Oceanside Fire Commissioner Michael Graham’s cancer-stricken son, Cooper, during the restaurant’s annual clam-eating contest. He was the first Island Park firefighter to die in the line of duty. Fischer, who was born and raised in Island Park, joined the department in 2013. He served as a captain from 2019 to 2020, and shortly after his death, he was posthumously promoted to honorary chief. Last Saturday’s event featured wrestlers from the ECPW Wrestling Academy, in Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey; Create A Pro Wrestling, in Hicksville; and New York Wrestling Connection, in Deer Park. Nearly 300 people ConTinuEd on PagE 12
e have aging infrastructure. We’re one of the oldest suburbs in the country.