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UpdatedSat, May 1, 2021 at 3:58 pm ET Replies(4) In 2001, the Oak Hill Middle School bus crash took the lives of Steve Glidden, Kayla Rosenberg, Greg Chan and Melissa Leung. (Jenna Fisher/Patch) NEWTON, MA — If they had lived, they would be in their 30s today. Some would likely be married with their own children by now. But 20 years ago this week four students from Oak Hill Middle School were killed and dozens injured in a crash that devastated the close-knit school. The tragedy has never been far from the surface in Newton. Each year the school community meets to remember the four and oth...

Wicked Local Elaine Alpert always wears the gold locket she purchased two decades ago at the Mall at Echo Bridge. Inside is a photo of her son, Steve Glidden, as well as a small amount of his ashes, “So he’s always with me,” she said. Glidden was only 12 when he and three other Oak Hill Middle School students died when a bus carrying 42 children from the school to a music festival overturned on an exit ramp in Sussex, New Brunswick. Even as Alpert and others prepare to mark the 20th anniversary of the tragedy on April 27, she said “the grief is the same as it was in the first minute �...