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Music Trip to Boston Canceled

Hauppauge students will not be traveling to Boston this weekend due to safety concerns surrounding the marathon explosions and a continued manhunt for a second bombing suspect.

A Hauppauge school music trip to Boston was canceled Friday morning due to continuing safety concerns surrounding the marathon bombings and shootout at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The High School chorus, band and orchestra were scheduled to leave Friday morning and return on Sunday to take part in a music festival being held in the city.

A spokesperson for the district said the decision to keep the trip was up in the air after Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon, and was officially canceled this morning after it became clear that the hazardous situation is ongoing.

Students and parents were notified of the cancelation this morning, the spokesperson said.

The city of Boston is currently on lockdown. Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts warned residents of the city and its neighboring communities to “stay indoors, with their doors locked.”

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who is one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings was killed early Friday morning after he led police on a chase after the fatal shooting of an MIT campus police officer. The second suspect, his brother, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, is still at large, police say. A manhunt is on in Watertown, Mass. to find him.

The suspect is considered armed and dangerous, police said.

Click here for the latest developments in the Watertown manhunt.


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