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ONEONTA – With 540 Oneonta residents voting today at Foothills, the school board budget passed 404 to 136.
The $37,776,382 budget, which includes a .66 percent increase in the total tax levy, is a 2.24 percent increase in expenditure, but allows for renovations, upgrades and several new teachers.
The purchase of three new buses was also approved 388-143.
Killer Knapp Dies In Prison; Guilty In SUNY Coed's Death Ricky Knapp 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. You have reached your limit of 3 free articles To Continue Reading SubscribeLogin Our hard-copy and online…
Hartwick College Drops Both Division I Sports Men's Soccer to DIII, Women's Water Polo Cut By PARKER FISH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA - In a letter addressed to all students, Hartwick College announced this afternoon that it would be withdrawing from NCAA Division I athletics, including from soccer, where it won a national championship in the 1970s. According to the letter, signed by Hartwick College's President Margaret Drugovich, Board of Trustees Chair Francis Landrey, and Student Affair Committee Chair David Long, Hartwick's Board of Trustees voted on whether or not to continue with the school's two Division I programs,…
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