Reading Rik Emmitt’s biography Lay It On The Line (ECW Press – 2023), I especially enjoyed the tales he recounted from various bands he was in over more than fifty years in the music biz. I am not just talking about high profile shows with the band Triumph, but various anecdotes going all the way […]
Okay – now I sound like the Mandarin in Iron Man 3 – what I mean to say, is WOAS-FM has been granted a new home at 91.5 FM – unfortunately our old tower elements are tuned to our old frequency – and they are over forty years old. We COULD broadcast at 15 watts without […]
AstroCal – February 2025 February 1 finds us 41 days away from the shortest daylight / longest night we experience on the December 21 Winter Solstice. Temperatures and weather patterns lag behind the official onset of winter that begins when we have the least amount of sunshine falling on our latitude. The Earth […]
There are plenty of rock stars out there who climb to the top of their profession by being outrageous, bombastic, colorful, and sometimes, just plain weird. Sure, there has to be enough talent on board for one to write and/or perform music, but it seems like some are trying a little too hard to […]
Listening to the opening lines of The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, it struck me that it has been fifty years since I began my semester long stint student teaching. Okay, so it was ‘fifty years ago this month’ and not ‘today’, but it still got me thinking about what I took away […]
Both Chinese and Greek philosophers are given credit for the origins of the old saying, “The wheels of justice turn slowly.” Sun Tzu’s version is often quoted (“Wheels of justice grind slow but grind fine”). Greek biographer Plutarch’s claim is based on his paraphrasing an ancient Greek proverb when he said, “Thus, I do […]
We left Part 1 of this story just as the surface rescue teams finally penetrated the lowest levels of the San Jose Mine. At this point, they had no idea if there were any survivors from the cataclysmic collapse that occurred on August 5, 2010. It was day seventeen before the drill rig labeled […]
The first time I was underground in a working mine was in the spring of 1974. Eleven of us crammed into a thirteen passenger van and left Marquette to take a geological field trip around Lake Superior. Organized by Dr. John Hughes, our first day of travel took us all the way to Sudbury, Ontario. […]
Happy New Year! Evening planetary viewing this month will be great so let’s jump right to the star of the show, Venus. Found in the SW to WSW part of the sky, Venus will be shining at a spectacular mag. -4-4, it will be hard to miss. Setting 4 hours after sunset, Venus will provide […]
As 2024 came to an end, we learned of the passing of WOAS-FM’s founder and first General Manager Thomas G. Lee (March 9, 1939 – November 26, 2024). Tom and I both began our service for the Ontonagon Area School District in the Fall of 1975 (he as the high school librarian and me […]