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Oneonta’s Teegan Buffington, Ella Harper, Aaden Lathan, Isabella Villanti, Zyair James, Micheal Grant, Quincey Speller and Nathan Woytach sit atop the Greater Plains Elementary parade float at the start of the annual Halloween Parade this evening in Oneonta. At right, Virginia Sauter, Tanya Pledger and other member of Jillian’s Dance Arts dance down Main Street to the sounds of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com)
Killer Knapp Dies In Prison; Guilty In SUNY Coed’s Death ONEONTA – Ricky Knapp, the man convicted of the 1977 death of SUNY Oneonta student, has died in Mohawk Correctional Facility, according to prison records. Knapp, 66, died March 8, having served 40 years of a 25-to-life sentence for a 1978 manslaughter conviction in the death of 18-year-old Linda Velzy, a SUNY student from Long Island. According to reports, Velzy was last seen Dec. 9 1977, hitchhiking in downtown Oneonta.…
When we’re young, the world unfolds in found talismans and nursery ditties. Singsong superstitions are verses in the narratives we construct about our lives. I was no exception. Sidewalks transformed into mythical landscapes, each crack a fault line through which my mother’s well-being might crumble.…
Sports Stars, Royalty, Witches March Through Cooperstown PAGE OF PHOTOS IN THIS WEEK’S FREEMAN’S JOURNAL…