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CRIME & SAFETY
'A jokester who brought joy': Fundraiser for family of Belfast youth who drowned June 20
A fundraising drive is underway and the community is rallying for the family of the 15-year-old Belfast Central School student who drowned in the Genesee River. Richard Harvey Elliott IV, better known as Ricky, died June 20 when he went swimming with another youth in the Allegany County Town of Caneadea.
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