Local Foods, Local Spirits
Fills Farmers’ Market Again
![Dad Eric Bland, a Bassett medical student, partakes of the offerings at the fourth annual Local Foods, Local Spirits this evening, a benefit for the Cooperstown Farmers' Market --and he feeds an occasional tidbit to daughter, Alice, 11 1/2 months. Alice is being tended by Laura Bland and Abby Bland, two of Eric's sisters. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)](https://www.allotsego.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/H37A4993.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.…
If you’re a very recent newcomer, you may know us best for our programs that add to the vitality of daily living in Otsego County. The Cooperstown Farmers’ Market (1991) was established to bring farmers and artisans to their customers and those customers back to Main Street at a time when even baseball writers were lamenting the takeover by baseball shops.…
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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.
$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:
Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.