On July 14, 2008, a random music fan shot a video of Rick K and the Allnighters performing at an amusement park in Pennsylvania.  Two years later, someone else posted it to YouTube under th…

AstroCal – August 2023        Cue the Marcels (as in the song Blue Moon) because August will be a two Full Moon month.  By the classic definition, the second Full Moon in a calendar m…

     Early in the spring of 2023, John Carlisle from the Detroit Free Press called the WOAS-FM studio to inquire how our fundraising was going.  It didn’t dawn on me to ask where he had heard …

       In Part 1 of Cha Cha Changes (again, my apologies to David Bowie for borrowing his song title), we began running down what Ontonagon was like in 1975 when I first arrived as the new J…

       When recently asked to present ‘something about how things have changed around here’ for the Ontonagon County Historical Society,  I said, “Let me think about it before I say â…

       At the conclusion of Part 1, we left Richy Starkey just as he hit the big time in the Liverpool music scene.  No, he wasn’t in The Beatles yet.  He was a member of Rory Storm and …