LEAF’s sixth annual “True Colors” Art & Poetry reception was this evening at CANO’s Wilber Mansion, featuring art, poety, life music, food and fellowship. In top photo, Linda Kertzman of Morris examines her “Behind the Mask,” a “figurative sculpture” that depicts a face in pain behind a smiling mask, created the year after the sculptor’s son died. At left, CANO board member Marie Cummings signs 4-year-old Sara Schulman’s card; 10 signatures, and you can participate in a raffle; the exercise was intended to get people talking to each other. At right, Jim Bellew shares his poems under a packed tent. (Jim Kevlin/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.…
This is a small holiday offering, a way to remember all that we have been and still can be if we keep our eyes focused on the best things and allow the petty to slip away.…
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Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper
Now through July 31st, new or lapsed annual subscribers to the hard copy “Freeman’s Journal” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or electronically to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.
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