HARRISVILLE TOWNSHIP — Pesticide, herbicide, and all kinds of chemicals are essential for farmers to keep their crops alive. Otherwise, bugs, weeds, and mold can harm the plants and the harvest yield, potentially making farmers lose profits. Farmers can choose two ways to spray chemicals ...

ALPENA — Kody Pribbernow lives in a trailer at the Alpena County Fairgrounds with his wife Kayla, his two children, and his two dogs — an older German Shepard husky hybrid named Riddick and an 11-week-old husky named Karma — both rescues. Pribbernow, who refers to himself and his family ...

ALPENA — The Alpena County Fair held a rodeo on Tuesday with a new team, Flying Star Rodeo. Fair Board officials say they decided to go with Flying Star instead of their usual rodeo company because the board and crowd members wanted a change in events. They said the fair has not seen bronc ...

A few years ago, our family took the plunge to spend the summer in Alaska. For us to make that adventure work, we took our pop-up camper with us — 6,000 miles there and 6,000 miles back. The pop-up was not a new, state-of-the-art camper loaded with amenities. It was a mid-1970s Skamper ...

Daily deadlines are a way of life at a newspaper, and it can sometimes be nerve-racking trying to get a story just right as the seconds tick by. But, when I think about some of the hardest writing I’ve ever done, it didn’t involve coming back late from a basketball game, a football game, ...

ALPENA — These two are anything but conventional. They’re gay, and they’ve been together for over 20 years prior to getting married at a historic church on the grounds of Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan. If you know Douglas Taratuta and Clint Taratuta-Kendziorski, you know they’re ...