Doug Kendall, Yager Museum director, welcomes visitors to the Hartwick College facility this evening for “Of Time and the River,” selections from Willard Yager’s 6,000-artifact collection of early Upper Susquehanna Valley inhabitants. This was the first exhibit Kendall, a former Oneonta city clerk, has overseen from start to finish since joining the museum a year ago. The museum is open Tuesday-Saturday, noon-4:30 p.m. (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.…
Enthusiasm was high at a kickoff event hosted by CFOC on Wednesday, May 8 at Hartwick College. Representatives from more than 40 local nonprofits joined the Mohawk Valley Gives team to learn about the September 20 giving day.…