When Clayton Fisher died in January of 2011, Norman Jack (“Dusty”) Kleiss became the last living dive bomber pilot to have participated in the Battle of Midway. As time took more of the participants of the June 4 – 6, 1942 battle, he found he was being sought out by more and more historians […]
Thought it only right to add a clip of Peggy James’ digital single Hard Times – so to just make the point again, I found out that the machine hosting our webpage, weather station, audio, and video feeds is toast…such is life. Intrepid techie Paul is pretty much having to start from scratch with the new machine, […]
UPDATE – Daniel’s first check up post surgery went well – he is recovering with the next visit to Green Bay scheduled for early December. Thanks one and all for your well wishes. With the Governor (rightly so again!) dialing back school and other gatherings to try and break the uptick in COVID, we will […]
Steph Curry is a terrific basketball player, two-time NBA MVP, and one of those wealthy professional athletes who decided to take a stab at becoming a media mogul. It is a little too soon to pass judgement on his budding media career. His attempt at TV production (an exploitation of Curry’s interest in golf […]
How are you doing? I have been contemplating the world and looking for something to post on the WOAS-FM.ORG website to provide hope for the future. I was thinking, “What we need is an anthem for 2020 – something that tells the story of these last strange months but leaves the door open a […]
“In fourteen hundred ninety two . . . “ How many of you instinctively filled in the dots with “Columbus sailed the ocean blue”? Such was the state of North American history as taught throughout most of the twentieth century. This view did not become dogma until there was a deliberate rewriting of history […]
It just goes to show that you are never too young to be a fan of WOAS-FM. Thanks to Helen and Donnie Domitrovich for loaning us Eva, Emma, and Thomas for a photo-op and for Ringo gracing us with his song about the same subject!
Here is a brief, two question music quiz to get your mental gears turning: Question 1 – True or False: Stevie Nicks was invited to join Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Question 2 – Multiple Choice: So far in her career, multi-instrumentalist Celisse has worked with or on – A) Melissa Etheridge, B) Lizzo, […]
A few years ago, we had the pleasure of bringing the Ontonagon Area Schools student body down to see the Rusty Wright Band at the Ontonagon Theater for the Performing Arts. I do not know about the kids and the band, but I had a blast (truthfully, a great time was had by all). We […]
If one checks out the WOAS-FM website (www.woas-fm.org), one can find an archive of FTV articles stretching back several years. The site is hosted by the Regional Educational Media Center (REMC) that is part of the Intermediate Schools District (ISD) office located in Hancock, Michigan. The ISD office is responsible for providing educational services […]