He has taught at Fredonia since 2008, following a 27-year career as a reporter and editor in newspapers, including 23 years at the Buffalo News. Ploetz has also made two documentaries: “Bflo Pnk 1.0,” a history of the early Buffalo punk scene; and “A Toys Story,” the tale of one of the greatest bands of that scene. He has written about music for The News, has created web sites for musicians, does a weekly radio show on Fredonia’s WCVF-FM, records and edits music videos and created WNY.FM, the web page and Facebook site archiving music history for the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame. He also wrote all of the songs and sang them on the “They Don’t Write ‘Em” CD, released by the Demo Daddies in 2008.