Guenther, Covert Honored
At Annual Recovery Dinner
![Five Star Subaru proprietor Ben Guenther, left, receives LEAF's 2016 Sioussat Award from Julie Dostal, LEAF executive director, at last evening’s annual Recovery Dinner at the Holiday Inn/Southside in Oneonta. At right, Cooperstown Police Chief Michael Covert receives and annual Amethyst Award from Kelly Liner, executive director of FORDO, the Friends of Recovery for Delaware & Otsego Counties. (Tara Barnwell/AllOTSEGO.com)](https://www.allotsego.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/fordo.jpg)
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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.…
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