From time to time it is kind of fun to go back and look at how we got here. For WOAS-FM, ‘here’ means ‘still here as we enter our 40th year on the air’. While yours truly has been in Ontonagon as long as the station has been on the air, I was more […]
“The Lake, it is said, never gives up her dead, when the skies of November turn gloomy”. If there is a more haunting lyric about Lake Superior than this, I have never heard it. This is the second line in the first verse of the song he wrote about the sinking of the Edmund […]
If there are tasks that breed procrastination more than cleaning closets, I can’t think of any. When one views this process as a form of exploration, however, there is a plus side. Our long neglected linen closet recently yielded a source of entertainment that had not seen the light of day for at least […]
It never ceases to amaze me that some people are shocked and horrified when the headlines blare out the fact that (gasp) many countries engage in spying, surveillance, and other covert operations. We like to think the fate of the world depends on world leaders exercising their diplomatic skills to sort things out, but […]
“Let Trees and Children Grow Together” was emblazoned on the sign in a photo attached to an article sent to me from the MTU archives. The article recounted the dedication of the MacMillan Township School Forest that took place in the late 1930s. The State of Michigan routinely granted local governments and school districts […]
A quick quiz: How many different types of mines have there been in Upper Michigan? This is a question I ask my sixth grade Geography – Earth Science students at the beginning of the Geology unit we cover that includes U.P. mining history. Everybody comes up with “copper”, and a few might remember “iron”, […]
August 9, 2017 update! The votes are in and the 1.3 mil sinking millage being sought in the August 8 election passed by a 2-1 margin! Thank you to the citizens of Rockland, Greenland, Carp Lake and Ontonagon Townships who ALL passed the proposal. Thank you for thinking about our students and one of your greatest […]
Have you had a family grill out lately? If you did, it was probably on a gas grill or a good old fashioned charcoal grill, which is my personal favorite. Either way, we all owe a debt of thanks to Henry Ford for kick starting this little piece of Americana tradition. When Ford’s Kingsford, Michigan […]
As the pitchman for the XPRIZE Foundation, Peter Diamandis knew he had his work cut out for him when Dr. Yes (Richard Branson) said ‘no’ when asked to become a sponsor of the $10 million dollar XPRIZE. Peter drew up a list of people with deep pockets and began a six year courtship of […]
If the title above makes you think of the iconic line in The Wizard of Oz (Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!), then your mind must work a lot like mine. When I hear certain strings of words together, my brain has a tendency to attach them to the rhythm of some song […]