The latest issue of SUNY Oneonta’s Biological Field Station Reporter, the newsletter that arrived in the mail yesterday, reported on the narrow escape of a black bass culled from Moe Pond with a bullhead stuck in its mouth. “Given the size and rigidity of the dorsal and pectoral spines bullheads possess, this bass had a good chance of choking to death,” the Reporter reported. Moe Pond is on the BFS’ Thayer Farm property, above Otsego Lake.
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 Otsego Lake Association extends its congratulations and thanks to Dr. Willard Harman for his more than five decades of service to Otsego Lake and our community.…