When the St. Lawrence Seaway was constructed in the 1950s, it opened a whole new era of commerce stretching from the Atlantic coast all the way to Duluth, Minnesota.  It also rolled …

From the Vaults:  First Heard         In August of 2025, I was reading an interesting article by ‘Metal’ Tim Henderson.  He was interviewing Dave Meniketti from the band Y&T when …

     Our business cards actually said ‘Sledgehammer – we don’t do polkas’.  Sledgehammer was my third working band and when Barry Seymour and I started jamming together in the fall o…

       One of my favorite Steve Earl songs is Copperhead Road.  If I had an ounce of song writing ability in me, I would put the Earl touch on a tune called Papin Road, but I don’t.  Eve…

       In the late spring of 2025, we ordered the last pieces of our puzzle.  The ‘puzzle’ was our four year quest to obtain a new frequency (91.5 FM) for WOAS-FM and the equipment we w…

            “Don’t Make Promises You Can’t Keep,” was written by Tim Harden and it became one of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap’s many hits.  Technically, it was the B-si…