Adding to the recent bear sightings on Otsego Lake’s east side, Orlo Burch sent along these photos of a bold bear raiding his bird-feeder two weeks ago on the west end of the Town of Otsego. Send photos you’ve taken of local bears to jimkevlin@allotsego.com
Contact the town of West Milford, New Jersey, for information on living with bears. They have become and every day part of life in there. It’s unsettling, but very normal at this point.
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.…
The lake is very shallow north of the alluvial fan of the Brookwood Creek delta. That swampy area is not a good place to launch a kayak or a rowing shell. At full bloom, the weeds and lily pads are a challenge in a rowing shell. Rowing through lily pads involves cutting them up, a lose-lose proposition.…
No one likes change. But this change is well within the permit’s recreational use parameters. I submit that we are extremely fortunate that a charitable organization stepped up to acquire and maintain Brookwood Point.…
Contact the town of West Milford, New Jersey, for information on living with bears. They have become and every day part of life in there. It’s unsettling, but very normal at this point.