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Once upon a time, not that long ago, I was introduced to the art of selling magazines. Having never been in love with fundraising (particularly the kind done to fund school projects), I was a little dismayed when a colleague of mine dropped a box of paperwork on my desk and said, “Here, it is […]
No, I am not thinking about the Wykon or the Hodag. If you are wondering, the first is the school mascot for the West Iron County (Michigan) school district and the latter is a tourist attraction who roams the forests somewhere in the northern counties of Wisconsin. No, what I have in mind are the […]
Alrighty then. What do Britney Spears, Max Martin, Backstreet Boys, Denniz PoP, Kelly Clarkson, and N’Sync have in common? If you ignored my imaginative spelling in the title (done as an homage to Mr. PoP), then you probably already guessed ‘hits’ as in ‘hit records’. I could have tried to get you off track by […]
Having recently flip-flopped our clocks with the end of Daylight Saving Time, we will not have to hear the endless debates about ‘should we keep DST’ or ‘should we drop DST’ until the next ‘spring ahead’ on March 10, 2024. Having previously shared my biased opinion that I would just as soon stay on […]
Friday October 13, 2023 turned out to be our lucky day. Like the visit paid to us by John Carlisle and Ryan Garza from the Detroit Free Press back in April of 2023, we weren’t really at liberty to say much about NBC Nightly News visiting WOAS until our story aired. The Freep guys […]
Raise your hands if you remember the Ontonagon Area Schools’ in-house store called The Oasis. If you remember it, dig back a little farther and try to remember why it was called The Oasis to begin with. Many, many former students and staff remember the store, but so far, no one has been able to […]
Holly Knight’s rise from a wanna-be rock musician to a respected songwriter was addressed in this space in FTV: Holly the Songsmith (11-8-23). Telling her story only took us up to the first major hit she and her publisher, Mike Chapman, wrote for Pat Benatar in 1983, Love is a Battlefield. Digging further into […]
Holly Erlander was a struggling musician trying to catch a break with her band Siren. The New York City music scene, much like its counterpart in Los Angeles, had a lot of bands trying to get noticed so her story isn’t exactly unique for the late 1970s. Holly had a knack for getting to […]
AstroCal – November 2023 November will be a great month for those of you who like to see that bright gem of a planet Venus in the early morning hours. On the morning of November 9, it will be particularly interesting as our ‘twin planet’ will have a very close encounter with the Last […]
When I was a wee lad of maybe four, we visited my cousin Wally and his wife somewhere in Wisconsin or Minnesota. Being on the young side and a few years ahead of developing my fixation on maps and geography, the details are a bit fuzzy. The one thing that comes to mind with […]