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 ...

BARNESVILLE, Pa. - A regional radio legend has reached a monumental milestone. "Polka Joe" is celebrating his 50th anniversary. The Lakeside Ballroom in Barnesville, Schuylkill County was the scene ...

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 ...

OMAHA — Joe Siedlik has gone from radio to television playing polka music for listeners for the past five decades. Now the Omaha man, best known as “Big Joe,” is taking a different route to provide ...

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 ...

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, ...

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’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 ...

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.