This is our old friend Al Jacquez and his wife Judy – Al was put in the Michigan Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Bay City in 2024.  We have followed his career since Savage Grace, Measured Chaos,…

       Near the one year anniversary of getting to see Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band in Eugene, Oregon for the first show of their 2023 summer tour, it occurred to me that some of you p…

WOAS-FM Awards for 2023-24       Student volunteers from the Ontonagon Area Schools were recently recognized for their contributions to WOAS-FM 88.5.  The radio station is owned by the school d…

       Okay, so we had a winter with very little snow (about one quarter of our yearly average in the Ontonagon area).  As of mid-May, we have only been playing hide and seek with warmer we…

       In Part 1, we spent a good deal of time detailing how a young Patrick Stewart managed to make the transition from being a barely educated Northern lad from Yorkshire to a full time st…

       The name Patrick Stewart no doubt connects with SciFy fans through the resume of characters he has played in recent times:  Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek:  The Next Generation …