Longtime OPD Officer David Clapp Dies at 74
We appreciate all of our local law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line every day for us. They are an important part of making any community, like our own City of the Hills, a safe and welcoming place to live. We salute and honor them every day, but it is also important to offer up our prayers and thanks when one of them passes away.
David Clapp served on the Oneonta Police Department for 23 years. He passed away on June, 4, 2021 at the age of 74.
According to his obituary from Lewis, Hurley and Pietrobono Funeral Home in Oneonta, NY, Dave Clapp proudly served our country in the United States Army in the Vietnam War. He is the recipient of the Bronze Star and Army Commendation Medal. Besides serving his native hometown as a police officer, Dave also served for more than two decades at Hartwick College in the campus safety department. He was a proud graduate of Oneonta High School and was a member of the Oneonta
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Dave Clapp, formerly CEO of County Group, has been appointed to lead Minority Venture Partners (MVP) and Ataraxia following the retirement of James McCaffery.
McCaffrey wrote on Linked In: “After seven years as CEO of MVP and Ataraxia I am retiring to spend winters in New Zealand and enjoy the ‘fruits of my labour’.”
He continued: “I am delighted to hand over the CEO role to a close friend, Dave Clapp, who created and ran County so successfully and has his own MVP experience which he will
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A diver places invasive mussels into a cage on a reef offshore from Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in this 2019 file photo.
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Researchers help divers deploy an inert bacteria compound to a section of an underwater reef near Sleeping Bear Dunes in this 2019 file photo. The effort was part of a pilot study to find ways to manage invasive zebra and quagga mussels.
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LELAND â Northwest Lower Michiganâs national park proved a fruitful natural laboratory for an invasive species study.
Scientists recently reported pronounced reductions in both cladophora algae and quagga mussel density in Lake Michiganâs offshore waters near Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore after an underwater project by the Invasive Mussel Collaborative. An offshore fish-spawning reef was the experimental zone in Good Harbor Bay.
Experimental project successfully removes invasive mussels near Sleeping Bear Dunes
Updated Dec 13, 2020;
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ANN ARBOR, MICH. A project aimed at reducing the number of invasive quagga mussels in Lake Michigan near Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has proved successful, providing important takeaways for groups involved in the ongoing effort to combat Great Lakes invasive species.
The project used a molluscicide consisting of dead cells from
Pseudomonas fluorescens bacteria last August on a reef within Sleeping Bear’s Good Harbor Bay, an important habitat for native fish that is currently jeopardized by invasive species, algae growth, and the botulism toxin.