Kids & Family

The Week That Was: Fatal Boating Accident; Former Village Trustee Dies

The top stories for the week in Huntington.

: Three children died when a boat carrying more than two dozen people capsized late Wednesday night after a fireworks show near Oyster Bay.

: Moored near West Shore Rd. just around the bend from the , the Noli Eileen currently sits submerged in Huntington Harbor with a portion of the top half of the boat still visible.

: The funeral for Victoria Gaines, 7,  at the mouth of Oyster Bay, will take place at St. Patrick Churchin Huntington July 10 at 9:45 a.m.

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: he Huntington Union Free School District has begun offering grief counseling and support following the death of  third grader Victoria Gaines, who would have turned 8 years old on Friday.

: Longtime  resident and village board trustee John McCusker died Thursday, according to the A.L. Jacobsen Funeral Home website.

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: A confluence of tragic circumstances conspired to capsize and sink a large pleasure boat Wednesday night, leavingin the waters near Oyster Bay, experts and eyewitnesses said Thursday.

: Nassau County Police are still uncertain who will raise the boat sunk after a 4th of July accident on Oyster Bay Harbor resulted in the deaths of three children.

: What was supposed to be a fun evening of watching fireworks on Oyster Bay ended in tragedy for one Huntington Station family late Wednesday when the boat they were in capsized.

: Michael Lovaglio says he's thrilled that his first produced film, "The Night Never Sleeps," will be making its Long Island Premier on opening night at the Long Island International Film Expoin Bellmore July 13.

: The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium unveiled its new mobile classroom last month at a meeting of the Suffolk County Legislature in Hauppauge.

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