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Musical ramblings from the manager
Wait…what? Who is Eddie and why are we happy that he is 50? First off, my father’s given name was Eddie Rudolf Raisanen and there is a 50 year connection to that moniker, but we will come back to that a little later. The Eddie in the above title is the beloved mascot of […]
We all learned the rhyme at some point in our schooling: Fourteen hundred ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. For far too many years, our history classes were fixated on giving Christopher Columbus credit for being the first to discover the Americas. Without considering the indigenous people who already lived in both North, […]
With a couple of notable Lunar events taking place in March, let us start this AstroCal by focusing on our neighbor. The Full Moon will take place on March 14 and bears the curious name of The Worm Moon. It is so named because this month, “the earthworms start to appear in the soil […]
“The Nazz Are Blue,” Lee said in reference to nothing in particular. “Who are they and why are they blue?” I asked. Lee was the bass player in my second band, Knockdown, and this discussion took place when I was dropping him by the IGA grocery store at the Marquette Mall. Lee’s wife worked […]
From the Vaults: Snow Day! No, not that kind of snow day. I am talking about something we hatched to help make the long stretch of winter weather (January to the end of March in the western Upper Peninsula) a little more bearable. It is no surprise that everyone in a school starts getting a […]
February 13, 2025 marked the kick off of the WOAS-FM 91.5 / Ontonagon Area Schools safe driving public service campaign. This state-wide initiative is called Strive 4 A Safer Drive (S4SD) and is funded by $1,000 grants from the Ford Motor Company and the Michigan Department of Transportation. This will be the tenth consecutive year […]
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 […]
‘Derringer’ was probably the perfect stage name when nine year old Rick began playing Country & Western tunes in the bars around Fort Recovery, Ohio with his uncle Jim. It was 1956 and he had only recently gotten a Harmony-type guitar model with one pickup and a copy of Mickey Baker’s Complete Course in […]
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 […]