After his show airs on WPNA 1490 AM Sunday morning, Keith Stras is hanging up his headphones and turning off his microphone a final time at his in-home studio in Elgin and retiring from the local ...

The last waltz is coming soon for a Jackson radio institution, Joseph “Polka Joe” Pancerz. Polka Joe's last show will be Dec. 27 on WIBM, 1450 AM, ending 44 years as Sunday-morning host of "Polka Time ...

It wasn’t until I served as a judge last September at the 17th annual Slovenian Sausage Festival that I realized just how many folks share a Slovenian heritage here in Northeast Ohio. And many of the ...

Recently, classic-rock fans in the Champlain Valley tuning to Barre’s 107.1 “Frank” FM were surprised to find that, rather than their daily fix of “More Than a Feeling” and “Rock You Like a Hurricane, ...

OLYPHANT – Every week from a home studio in her home, Natalie Gubala-Magdon brings a traditional style of music to the public in a new, technologically advanced way. Her devotion to polka runs so deep ...

It’s a Friday morning at KCHK, a radio station a few miles northeast of New Prague on Highway 13, and three accordion players and a drummer are packed into the tiny studio. Between songs, they joke ...

DUDLEY - For the past 25 years, Bob Guyette has hosted two shows a week at WNRC, Nichols College’s community radio station in Dudley. But unlike other college radio hosts, who might play the latest 2 ...

Tony Petkovsek is to Northeastern Ohio polka fans what Dick Goddard is to weather followers. Both have been on the air for 50 years, and both have loyal listeners and viewers, but Petkovsek is ...

He called it the small post with a big heart, and on Tuesday, folks playing bingo around the bar at the Polish Legion of American Veterans on Page Avenue remembered a man with the biggest of hearts.

Some children follow in their parents’ footsteps, while others march to a different beat. Keith Stras is one of the marchers. And the beat is that of the polka. “There have been a lot of jokes made ...

Former longtime La Cañada resident and broadcasting personality Dick Sinclair passed away last month in Palm Desert, where he’d made his home in recent years. He was 91. Best known for his work on the ...

Joseph W. Timmer, known to many legions of Lehigh Valley polka fans as “Jolly Joe,” has rolled out the last dance tune on his Bethlehem radio station, WGPA-AM. Confined to a nursing home with dementia ...