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 ...
Tucked way in the back on the second floor of The News office is a gold mine with the most unassuming name. We call it the morgue. The name may sound haunting, but media morgues are actually pretty common. Traditional morgues consist of files filled with clippings that are organized by ...
ALPENA — For days, Alpena resident Bev Olsen looked forward to witnessing the planned flyover of military jets — including KC-135 Stratotankers and A-10 Thunderbolt IIs — during the U.S. Air Force’s commemoration of 100 years of aerial refueling. Tuesday’s flyover, complicated by a ...
If I have any color thumb, it’s purple. It’s definitely not green, much to my Opa’s chagrin. I’ve been using his old hoe to attempt to put a 4-foot-by-4-foot square vegetable garden in a sunny spot in our back yard. I have little to no idea what I’m doing. I mean, I know how to look ...
ALPENA — Alpena Public Schools hosted a May is Mental Health Awareness Month panel discussion and presentation on Tuesday, with many knowledgeable community partners weighing in on the issue of mental health. In addition to counselors from Alpena High School and Thunder Bay Junior High, ...