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Friday marks a new season of Radiolab, which will be broadcast weekly on Fridays at 5 p.m. on 97.7 WRNC-LP through July. Listen to what audio morsels the folks at Radiolab are cooking up on science, philosophy and human experience.
Learn more about Radiolab by reading an interview by CNN with Radiolab co-host Jad Abumrad here.
Park Falls musician James Corbett
The Northland College radio station 97.7 WRNC-LP will feature local musician James Corbett on the next installment of “Studio Sessions” on Friday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. Corbett will discuss his debut album “Coming Home,” which he released in January.
James Corbett is a singer-songwriter from Park Falls, Wisconsin. After graduating high school, he attended the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Corbett returned home and began playing acoustic folk music, drawing influences from artists like Chuck Ragan and Dustin Kensrue. The Park Falls native writes personal songs with universal themes.
“[The album is] kind of looking back on past things in your life and deciding I’m not going to worry about those anymore and I’m moving on from this point. It’s kind of about forgetting about the mistakes you may have made and forgiving yourself for that and moving on to a better place,” says Corbett.
Corbett says he wants people to connect with his music on a personal level. He’s working on a new project with friends and family in Park Falls. He hopes to release another album sometime this summer.
To learn more about Corbett, tune in Friday at 7:30 p.m. on 97.7 WRNC-LP. Listeners can stream the show online at www.wrnclp.org. People can also listen to his debut album online at www.jamescorbett.bandcamp.com. For more information on upcoming shows, call (715) 682-1664 or email md@wrnclp.org. WRNC welcomes local musicians who live in and around the Chequamegon Bay area to be interviewed on the program.
The historic Soo Line oredock in Ashland will soon disappear from the horizon on Lake Superior’s South Shore. Phases one and two of the oredock demolition resumed this spring. Ashland Mayor Bill Whalen says the city awarded a revised permit last summer allowing railroad company Canadian National to begin demolition of the historic structure. The railroad has contracted with Duluth-based VEIT & Company to conduct the demolition.
“They are going to take off the upper structure and all the fixtures attached to it and get down to the cement structure itself – everything but the base,” said Whalen.
Whalen hopes Canadian National will finish work on the first two phases of demolition by the end of the year.
“I know they’ll have all the chutes off it, all the attachments: the metal, the steel, some of the wood attachments. Whether they’ll have the entire structure down, we don’t know yet,” he said.
The city plans to begin negotiations with the railroad about the base of the oredock.
“I’d like to keep the base and have a real nice pier there, but it’s going to be an awful lot up to the railroad itself,” said Whalen. “If we can save them money by not having to demolish the base itself and it’s a win-win for both of us, we’ll move forward on this.”
The City of Ashland will do water quality monitoring tests by the oredock to ensure that no debris from the demolition is contaminating Lake Superior. The city’s water pickup is about 1300 feet from the oredock.
Whalen adds the city is considering buying parts of the oredock from Canadian National to commemorate the near century old landmark of Ashland’s lakefront. The oredock, which was built in 1916, took its last load of cargo in 1965.
Ashland Mayor Bill Whalen talked about the oredock demolition on Northland College radio’s program “Leaders’ News & Views,” which airs weekly on Tuesdays at 9 a.m. on 97.7 WRNC in Ashland. People can view the oredock demolition through a live webcam on the City of Ashland’s website.
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