The Society of St. Vincent de Paul would like to thank the Alpena Community for all the support of the warming shelter that was located at the merchants building this past winter. Special thanks to the Alpena County, City of Alpena, Christine Kihn, from the Center of Charity, and Larry ...

Oh my. The editorial column School Board President Eric Lawson wrote about himself, and was in last Saturday’s News, was so self-aggrandizing. An “Ode to Himself” that could only have been written by himself, and a grand work of fiction with hardly a whiff of reality. Lawson used a lot of ...

Up until recently I have always thought that politics can be resolved with discourse and listening. But I no longer believe that. Why? Because there has been a split in reality between the two major parties. There are reality and fantasy which can no longer be resolved as one side has resorted ...

I do not think that we need more republican members in Congress. They have shown that they can not govern, when they seem to take away from the people. When the current president came into office he said everything would get better. Everything seems to me, everything got worse. When ...

Two years ago, our small group of volunteers started cleaning city beaches. Specifically we removed lumbering-era bark, and storm-water runoff sludge, from Blair Street, Starlite, and Mich-e-ke-wis beaches. During these two seasons, volunteers removed 107,000 pounds of debris from these ...

The recent article about the waste water plant spending $400,000 for odor control is rather comical. A few months ago in a meeting with the city council and mayor, they blamed septic trucks for the odors . They stopped receiving septic waste along with the revenue it generated, around $400,000 ...