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John Thompson

Concert Celebrates Matsuo Award Winner, Raises Funds for Helios

Dr. Friedell will be honored at the Helios Care Rock and Roll Revue concert on Saturday, October 19 at the Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center. The show will begin at 7 p.m. and will feature local artists—including John Thompson and his Elusive Gems band, The Roundhouse Rockers, The Mopar Cams, Doug Decker, Shari Gage, Tom Pondolfino, Mary Frances Perricone, and Eric Haight—playing popular hits from the 50s through the 70s.…
October 17, 2024

Playing in the band

The Driftwoods — Then and now and why John Thompson – he owns Advantage Maytag in Oneonta with his father-in-law, John Elderkin – and I have been best friends for nearly five decades now. We first met as fellow percussionists in the Cooperstown Central high school band when he transferred in from Milford and announced upon arrival that he had been drumming in his dad’s band since he was 11 years old. Probably not the best way to ingratiate yourself…
February 17, 2022

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

For a limited time, new annual subscriptions to the hard copy of “The Freeman’s Journal” or “Hometown Oneonta” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or digital-only access 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: Friends of the Feral-TNR, Super Heroes Humane Society, or Susquehanna Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 

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