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Brigadier General Chuck Yeager (born 2-13-1923, died 12-7-2020) is probably best remembered for his historic flight piloting the Bell X-1 rocket plane. Flying as a test pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA – the precursor to NASA), he became the first human to travel faster than the speed of sound on […]
We are sad to report the passing of our beloved black cat, Mr. B. He was the boss, we were the obedient servants, and I can say without hesitation that he brought a lot of joy to our home over the past 8 years. When Mr. B’s owner died, he was a big (20 lbs […]
WOAS-FM 91.5 wrapped up its tenth consecutive STRIVE 4 A SAFER DRIVE public service campaign on April 16, 2025. The S4SD program is sponsored by the Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning (OHSP) and Ford Philanthropy. All Michigan high schools are eligible to apply for these yearly grants. WOAS-FM 91.5 is owned by […]
Blues Music Magazine is a quarterly publication I have subscribed to for many years. I have been a fan of all types of music for years but it was former WOAS-FM General Manager Mike ‘Zenith’ Bennett’s over the top love for the genre that got me deeper into the blues. BMM is published quarterly […]
At the end of 2024, I took some time to repay a long overdue debt. Over the last decade, Gary Tanin from Daystorm Music in Milwaukee has been kind enough to send me music from a host of artists he has worked with. Corresponding via email, I got to know a bit about Gary […]
Perhaps Joe South said it best: Walk a mile in my shoes / Walk a mile in my shoes / Hey, before you abuse, criticize and accuse / Better walk a mile in my shoes (1968). These words popped into my head when I read comments deriding a pop star for complaining about how […]
WOAS-FM will be on spring break the last week of March – see you back on www-woas-fm.org as we await the delivery of our new tower bays so we can get back to over the air broadcasting at 91.5 fm in June! Have a safe ‘spring’ break! Thank you to Citizens State Bank for the […]
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, […]
Well kids – we have worked out the logistics for our new tower bays and we have just about enough money to cover the order. That is the good news. The bad news (of course there is always bad with the good) is we may not be able to install them until June – if […]
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 […]