Investigators continue to probe the accident.
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LUDLOW – Grief counseling will be available Thursday and Friday morning for the schoolmates of 10-year-old Gus Adamopoulos, fatally injured in a boating accident on Norwich Lake Tuesday night.
School Superintendent Theresa M. Kane said the counseling will be available at Veterans Park Elementary School where Gus Adamopoulos was poised to enter the fifth grade.
Seven counselors from throughout the district will be available from 9 to 11 a.m. on both days, Kane said.
“We felt strongly that waiting for the first day of school (on Aug. 31) was just too far out for the kids,” Kane said.
Investigators, meanwhile, continue to probe the boating accident that took the life of the boy and sent his father, 53-year-old James Adamopolous to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield with a leg injury.
The father and son had been paddling in a kayak shortly before 6:30 p.m. when they were struck by a motorboat that had been pulling a water-skier.
Gus Adamopoulos was taken by ambulance to Noble Hospital where he died.
Northwestern District Attorney Elizabeth D. Scheibel said Thursday morning that investigators continue to probe the accident and are obtaining statements from witnesses.
An autopsy on the boy is slated to be conducted today.
State police said the driver of the motorboat was a 37-year-old Westfield man. His name has not been released.
The investigation is being led by troopers assigned to the Franklin-Hampshire County State Police Detective Unit. Troopers on scene were assisted by members of the state Environmental Police Department and the Huntington Police and Fire departments.