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Syosset Week in Review: July 8-14

Mourning Sister Jackie, OLMA senior to document diversity, and updates on the Oyster Bay boat capsizing.

Topping headlines this week was the sudden death of beloved St. Edward the Confessor nun, Sister Jackie Walsh. She was killed in a hit-and-run in Water Mill Monday night. Here are the stories written about the tragedy in order of publication:

A Syosset woman and Woodbury man face drug charges after being pulled over for speeding upstate and state troopers discovered an array of drugs in the car.

An will have a chance to document diversity this summer through a Hofstra University program. 

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The haunting images of the raised wreck of the Kandi Won sparked a common reaction by veteran boaters throughout Long Island.

The listing wreck of the Kandi Won was towed intact to a marina in Oyster Bay Wednesday afternoon where authorities will hoist it from the water and begin to examine the doomed pleasure craft.

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The  began its meeting Tuesday with a moment of silence for the three children killed in a tragic .  

Local traffic was held up as police and officials worked to contain a water main break Wednesday night on Southwoods Circle in Syosset.

A Bronx man is under arrest for a spree of thefts, vandalism, and robbery on Jackson Avenue.

Thomas Cronin, 49 of the Bronx, went to at about 3:45 p.m. Tuesday and took about $140 from the cash register, forcibly confronting a witness as he fled the scene, said police.



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