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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAMERON — On Sunday, Dec. 28, Alfred Vrazel will do something he has done nearly every week since 1955. He cues up polka music, greets his listeners and fills the afternoon airwaves with the sound ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joe Spellerberg stepped behind the microphone for his weekly polka music radio show for the first time 50 years ago. But it wasn’t until being stopped for speeding that he picked up the nickname for ...