Bus crash stuns close-knit Long Island marching band community

The marching band community on Long Island is a tight-knit one, and the loss of a popular Farmingdale High School band director and chaperone and injuries to students in Thursday’s bus crash has sent band members and staffers from schools across the region reeling. “There wasn’t a dry eye in my band room when we talked about what happened and how could this happen,” Central Islip High School band co-director Jeremiah Ryan said Friday. “My students are planning a fundraiser with other local bands and are creating ribbons and a...