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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 […]
Early in the spring of 2023, John Carlisle from the Detroit Free Press called the WOAS-FM studio to inquire how our fundraising was going. It didn’t dawn on me to ask where he had heard about our need to purchase a new transmitter but I told him, “We are just getting started on it and […]
In Part 1 of Cha Cha Changes (again, my apologies to David Bowie for borrowing his song title), we began running down what Ontonagon was like in 1975 when I first arrived as the new Junior High Geography/Earth Science teacher in the Ontonagon Area Schools. This article was begun as a presentation made at […]
When recently asked to present ‘something about how things have changed around here’ for the Ontonagon County Historical Society, I said, “Let me think about it before I say ‘yes’ or ‘no’.” There are already many volumes available about the history of the area (see: Knox Jamison, Earl Doyle, and Bruce Johanson for starters), […]
At the conclusion of Part 1, we left Richy Starkey just as he hit the big time in the Liverpool music scene. No, he wasn’t in The Beatles yet. He was a member of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes and Richy was known to be the best drummer within 150 miles of his home […]
Can an 82 year-old take on 23 concert dates consisting of two and three night stands with a couple of days off in between? After witnessing Ringo’s All Starr Band hit the stage in Eugene, Oregon on Friday June 2, 2023, I am going to guess the answer is, “Oh yeah!” Ringo doesn’t do […]
The most visible planet in the western sky, Venus, will take a dramatic plunge during the month of July. It will begin July 25 degrees above the horizon and will set 2.3 hours after the Sun on that date. By August 1, Venus will only be 3 degrees above the horizon and will set a […]
When photos were posted of eight year-old Nante Niemi being piggybacked out of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park on Eli Talsma’s back this past spring, a combined sigh of relief and shouts of joy echoed far beyond the Western Upper Peninsula. NBC’s Today Show led off the parade of national media stories. Later […]