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Tropical Storm Isaias wallops Baldwin serves about 1.1 million customers across Long Island and the Rockaways. Tropical Storm Isaias rolled Baldwin resident Rachel Silthrough Nassau County on the berstein Guarneri, who lives in afternoon of Aug. 4 with relative- the Loft Estates, said on Aug. 6 ly little rain but with sustained that she had lost power for at winds in the 30- to 50-mph range, least 48 hours and had no comwith some gusts in excess of 70 munication with PSEG. mph, downing trees throughout “I have asthmatic children, the region, including in Baldwin, and I’m asthmatic,” she said. with some falling “The humidity is on homes and takvery bad for us, ing down power and we can’t lines. breathe. We can’t “Tropical Storm use our nebulizer Isaias was one of in the event of an the strongest to emerg ency. Our reach the service food is spoiled, and area in years, causwe’re isolated due ing widespread, to Covid-19. I feel severe damage,” helpless.” PSEG reported that Her power was day. “Some outages rAChel restored last Fricould last for an SilBerSTeiN d ay a t a r o u n d extended period.” noon, she said. P S E G - L o n g GUArNeri “It was a rough I s l a n d ’s o u t a g e few days,” SilberBaldwin resident map showed more stein Guar neri than 2,500 people said. “Two and a without power in Baldwin at half days wouldn’t have been so around 4:50 p.m. on Aug. 4. bad if there was any communiAs of press time Monday, cation at all regarding a reasonPSEG-LI representatives said able estimate about when they’d that about 17,000 of the roughly get to us. Instead, you couldn’t 420,000 storm-affected customers get through on the phone, text remained without power. About 403,000 had been restored. PSEG Continued on page 7
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ChriS weidmAN, leFT, a Baldwin native, won a unanimous decision over Omari Akhmedov last Saturday night in Las Vegas.
Baldwin’s Chris Weidman back in UFC win column
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For the first time since 2017, Baldwin’s Chris Weidman had his arm raised in the octagon. Weidman, the former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champ, earned a unanimous decision over Omari Akhmedov at the UFC Vegas 6 last Saturday night at the Apex in Las Vegas. Two judges scored the fight 29-27, while the third judge had it
29-28. The 12-card event marked a return to the middleweight division for Weidman, who had lost five of his six previous decisions after beginning his career with 13 straight wins, with the two biggest coming against Anderson Silva to send shockwaves through the sport. “I’m really looking forward to the future,” Weidman said in his post-fight interview on ESPN+32 after ending Akhmedov’s three-fight
win streak. “I feel like I have a new start here at middleweight, and I’m really excited about it,” he said. “This wasn’t the fight I 100 percent envisioned, but it’s all good.” Weidman’s wrestling skills helped keep Akhmedov (20-51) on the mat for what proved to be a dominant third round. Now 15-5 in his MMA career, Weidman hadn’t fought since losing to Dominick Reyes in Boston on Oct. 18, 2019. His most recent win prior to last Continued on page 7
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