I think it’s time the township voters elect new board members who know how to make a decision and resolve problems. This ongoing issue with the Alpena City Water and the Alpena Township is a prime example. The amount of tax money these board members have wasted on attorneys and litigation ...

There have been many articles published about the bravery of the young man who used his slingshot to protect his sister from an active kidnapping, but many of them focus on the brother and overshadow the work done by the little girl to stay safe. What that boy did to assist in saving his ...

Representative Bergman in a recent constituent newsletter, May 23, 2023, writes that “Americans make those tough decisions in their personal lives everyday”, referring to the fact that we stand good for the debts we have incurred in our daily lives. When the bills come in, we pay them as ...

Responding to the impassioned fallout from my suggestion that “enraptured” wasn’t le mot juste to describe the response to David Sedaris’ recent appearance in Alpena, first, kudos to Anne Gentry for having such rabid supporters, ready to leap to her defense. More to the point, before ...

What we know about sugar and what it’s doing to our body: If we go back to the 1970s, the average person consumed 40 pounds of sugar a year, and diabetes, cancer, gout, heart disease, stroke, dementia, Alzheimer’s was around but rare, a baby born diabetic was very rare. This had stayed like ...

For over 40 years my wife, Grace, and I have been a part of Alpena Civic Theatre. We have seen many memorable performances, but few have reached the level of this presentation. Call it direction, call it set presentation, call it blocking perfection, call it acting preparedness — call it ...