Musical ramblings from the manager
The disclaimer: I like music. I will listen to any type of music but there are some genres I can take or leave. I have listened to enough Punk rock, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, and hard core metal bands like Slipknot to know they aren’t my cup of tea. I understand why legions of […]
In his Your Place in Space feature printed in The Planetary Report’s June Solstice 2023 edition, Bill Nye opened this special OSIRIS-REx issue with some reflections about the probe’s seven year journey. As the president of The Planetary Society, Nye wanted to remind all the Society’s members that, “You share in missions like OSIRIS-REx. […]
As my 70th birthday crept up on me in the fall of 2023, I started thinking about how time passes between the end of one school year and the beginning of the next. My 60 years spent as an student in public school (K-12), college (5 years including grad school) and teaching (43 years in […]
Start your observations for September in the eastern sky in the hours before sunrise. Venus and Jupiter will be easy to find shining at -4.8 and -2.5, respectively. They will be the brightest objects in the sky not counting the Full Moon and the Sun. Venus will be due east in the lower part […]
First, let me apologize in advance for how many times we are going to say ‘Thank You’ in this FTV. There are only so many words that can fit what happened to WOAS-FM 88.5 in the past five months but the most important two are ‘Thank You’. We would be remiss to not thank […]
Dick Clark may have left this mortal coil in 2012, but it is a fair bet if one hears the phrase, ‘America’s oldest living teen-ager’, his smiling face will come to mind. Born on November 11, 1929, he was perfectly positioned to transition from the golden age of radio into that new fangled home […]
Quick update -The full story of John Carlisle and Ryan Garza from the Detroit Free Press visiting WOAS-FM to do a story on the station and our need for a new transmitter is out there. The Free Press posted the link for one day and now it comes up asking you to subscribe to view […]
This fall, WOAS-FM will be applying for another $1000 grant co-sponsored by the State of Michigan and the Ford Motor Company. Perhaps you have saw the gold and red ‘Strive for a Safer Drive – Don’t be Distracted’ banners adorning the ‘Welcome to Ontonagon’ signs at the village entry points on US 45 and […]
On July 14, 2008, a random music fan shot a video of Rick K and the Allnighters performing at an amusement park in Pennsylvania. Two years later, someone else posted it to YouTube under the heading ‘This Drummer is At the Wrong Gig!’ and it promptly went viral. The singer introduces the ZZ Top tune […]
AstroCal – August 2023 Cue the Marcels (as in the song Blue Moon) because August will be a two Full Moon month. By the classic definition, the second Full Moon in a calendar month is called a Blue Moon. Both of the August Full Moons will also be what are known as Super Moons […]