Our George Fletcher county library, a gem in our beautiful county and town, needs a closer look, there is more than meets the eye. The library board and administrative library staff are insisting on putting books that are explicitly sexual in content in the youth (6- to 12-year-old) and teen ...

Since 2021, Alpena Township Fire Chief Mark Hansen has done a tremendous job of rebuilding the Alpena Township Fire Department after the trustees failed to “contract out” fire and emergency medical services to the city. Unfortunately, the trustees continue to fail to take any action to ...

With all the negativity about, it’s a good time, Alpena, to be extremely proud of our Alpena workforce. Neiman’s Family Market continues to produce, at the Alpena store, our famous bagels in a frozen pre-baked state for our stores. Products are brought up and the supplier then takes them ...

We just celebrated our country’s 248th year of independence! This independence was to prevent ever being ruled by a Monarchy, one person who rides roughshod over our every word and deed, but a country ruled by a Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of ...

Did you actually attend a library or commissioners meeting? Save the Alpena Children (STAC) has,so let me correct your errors. We have never asked the books to be banned, locked up, or taken off all shelves. We have asked for answers. What is the criteria to place a book in the adult ...

There is a young man in Alpena who is lucky to be alive tonight. This afternoon I was driving on French Road where the speed limit is 45 mph. Alongside of me there were about three kids riding their bikes. I was keeping my eye on them luckily because all of a sudden the kid who was at the end ...