ALPENA — The Habitat for Humanity Northeast Michigan ReStore opened exactly 20 years ago today. That initial ReStore opened in a building across from the Alpena Township offices on U.S.-23 North. Habitat was renting that first building, and then five years later, purchased the building at ...

Sunrise Garden Club Spring Plant Sale Saturday HARRISVILLE — The Sunrise Garden Club’s Annual Spring Plant Sale will take place from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday on the corner of U.S.-23 and M-72 in Harrisville next to the Craftmakers’ Cabin. In addition to a wide variety of perennials ...

For many of us there’s a breakfast spot we remember from our childhood – a favorite diner, a familiar chain, or even a fast-food stop. When my grandmother Gentry would visit, she loved to have breakfast at Kresge’s and on Sundays my father enjoyed taking us to the Pewabic Room at the ...

OSSINEKE — In 1980, the future Connie’s Cafe began as a small ice cream shop known as Ice Cream Express. No one, not even Connie herself, could have envisioned that 45 years later her namesake restaurant would become synonymous with “serving good food to good people." The famously ...

ALPENA — The League of Women Voters of Northeast Michigan hosted a Women in Government panel discussion and community dialogue on Saturday afternoon at the Alpena County Library. A crowd filled the upstairs Stillion Room to hear from the panelists. Rescheduled from the original March date ...

ALPENA — The Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan (CFNEM) is accepting grant applications for the summer 2025 grant cycles of its Northeast Michigan Women’s Giving Circle (WGC) Grant and Community Impact Grant. All nonprofit agencies with a 501(c)(3) IRS designation, schools, ...