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Long Island Pizzerias Raise $100K For High School Bus Crash Victims Long Island Pizzerias Raise $100K For High School Bus Crash Victims
Long Island Pizzerias Raise $100K For High School Bus Crash Victims One hundred and forty pizzerias across Long Island participated in a massive fundraiser to continue support for the victims of a double-fatal high school bus crash. Just days after the double-fatal Thursday, Sept. 21 Farmingdale High School band bus crash, co-founders Alyssa Guidice, Anthony Laurino, and Jim Serpico put their heads together to devise a way to fuse a fundraiser with something every Long Islander loves: a good pizza pie. Though the effects of the crash were felt throughout the Farmingdale community, it hit Laurino especially hard – his son was in the school’s second bus a…

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Support Swells For Sisters Injured In Bus Crash Involving Long Island HS Students Support Swells For Sisters Injured In Bus Crash Involving Long Island HS Students
Support Swells For Sisters Injured In Bus Crash Involving Long Island HS Students In just one day, the community has gathered to help more identified victims of a charter bus crash carrying Long Island high school students — this time, two sisters who were both injured in the incident, one of whom saved the other’s life. “My two babies were on that bus.” Natalie and Ashely Betts are two Farmingdale High School students who were on the charter bus that crashed in Orange County on Thursday, Sept. 21, according to a GoFundMe launched by the girls’ aunt and a Facebook post by their father. The sisters, like the 40-odd other people on the bus, were on their way to Pennsyl…

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by Sophie Grieser