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Greetings – We had an idea we could do some limited broadcasting and advertise the school district food distribution program – then Gov. Whitmer asked for a longer period of physical separation. We are taking this seriously so we are probably off the air until at least April 14, 2020. If it is possible to […]
Dan Aykroyd’s movies averaged $50 million at the box office in 1983. Unfortunately, one of his films, Doctor Detroit, was a stinker that only accounted for $8 million, thus lowering the overall average just a bit. Doctor Detroit cost $10 million to make and was Aykroyd’s second flop in a row. The pundits were already […]
I don’t suppose there is a big need to explain the reasons . . . WOAS-FM 88.5 is located in the library of the Ontonagon Area Schools. With the State of Michigan mandating all k-12 schools be closed until at least April 6, 2020, we will be OFF THE AIR until such time as school […]
Too often, quotes we remember for some reason spring from our lips even though their origins may be vague. Many memorable quotes come from the world of sports and we tend to remember the malapropisms and mixed metaphors (from the likes of Yogi Berra) longer than others. Berra’s unintentional mangling of the English language made […]
Greetings all – With February behind us, we are working diligently to get the posters and buttons judged so we can wrap up this year’s Strive 4 a Safer Drive – Don’t be Distracted 5 campaign. Winners will be announced in this space in the next two weeks. Thank you to MSP Trooper Jerry Mazurek […]
When one is young, it is sometimes hard to fathom why your parents work so hard. We always had a perfectly good coal or oil furnace in the houses we lived in, yet my father was obsessed with cutting firewood. Of course, one needed a fireplace or a wood stove of some sort to warrant […]
In Part 1 of Time and Tide, we examined some of the ways humans have managed to foul up Mother Nature’s handiwork. Specifically, we looked at the mess humans caused by adjusting natural beach patterns in Bayocean, Oregon, Grand Marais, Michigan, and the Lakeshore Boulevard beach front in Marquette, Michigan. In this segment, we will […]
Of course, the full statement teased in the title is, “Time and tide wait for no one,” but even the shorter version will suffice for our purposes here. Having recently finished the second hiking book provided to me by the WOAS West Coast Bureau in Eugene (William Sullivan’s Hiking Oregon’s History – Navillus Press […]
The aptly named “Money Pit” on a little two lobed island off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada was purportedly discovered in 1795. In a mere seventy years after the discovery, numerous groups of treasurer seekers from near and far had landed on Oak Island. Their explorations saw at least ten shafts and an […]
What ever happened to nicknames? When I was a kid, I heard enough cool nicknames on TV and in the movies, it just seemed like everyone should have one. In my neighborhood, the only nickname I remember anyone having one was the kid everyone called ‘Porky’. He wasn’t an overly large individual, but one day […]