ABC Alpena’s Bird Center sanctuary hosted a fundraising event at Samantha’s on 2nd on Sunday to support food costs, medical costs, and housing needs and repairs, according to Ashley Kolnowski, the sanctuary's founder and president. The sanctuary takes injured and displaced birds and ...

Star Staffing Alpena in Alpena is starting its annual Mitten Drive. It started doing the drive in 2017 by collecting mittens, scarves, hats, boots, coats, and snowpants to give out to local schools, it said in a press release on Saturday. “We feel it is necessary to help the families that ...

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What started out as a small patch of pumpkins five years ago, has evolved into a family project that touches the community in a caring way. When they began, Tara and Larry Rondeau’s kids, Cooper, Carter, Caleb and Coralynn, were 10, eight, five and two years old respectively. Tara ...