Summer Fun Comes To End As School Year Begins Today

Summer vacation ended this morning at schools throughout Otsego County. Above, teacher aide Alyson Burleigh welcomes Emmett and Henry Ayers, led into Cooperstown Elementary School this morning by mom Sally; in the background, teacher aide Debra Mack confers with parent Brenton Seamon. At right, Melissa Brockway walks her daughter Taryn to her first day of second grade at Greater Plains Elementary School in Oneonta. (Jim Kevlin and Ian Austin /AllOTSEGO.com)

Killer Ricky Knapp Dies In Prison

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.…

April 21, 2018

Sports Stars, Royalty, Witches March Through Cooperstown

Sports Stars, Royalty, Witches March Through Cooperstown PAGE OF PHOTOS IN THIS WEEK’S FREEMAN’S JOURNAL…

October 31, 2016

Hartwick College Drops Division I Sports Programs

Hartwick College Drops Both Division I Sports Men’s Soccer to DIII, Women’s Water Polo Cut By PARKER FISH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In a letter addressed to all students, Hartwick College announced this afternoon that it would be withdrawing from NCAA Division I athletics, including from soccer, where it won a national championship in the 1970s. According to the letter, signed by Hartwick College’s President Margaret Drugovich, Board of Trustees Chair Francis Landrey, and Student Affair Committee Chair David Long, Hartwick’s Board of Trustees voted on whether or not to continue with the school’s two Division I programs,…

February 28, 2018

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