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FRT: Twig Gigs

     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 […]

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AstroCal – February 2025

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 […]

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FTV: WOAS FM Update

       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 […]

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FTV: Deep Down Dark – Part 2

       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 […]

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From the Vaults: Deep Down Dark

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. […]

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AstroCal – January 2025

     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 […]

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Thomas G. Lee & WOAS FM

       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 […]

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