News Photo by Julie Riddle Police officers respond to a traffic crash in Alpena County last week.

News Photo by Crystal Nelson Shoppers mask up as they visit the Alpena Mall on Thursday.

News Photo by Julie Riddle Justin Golder pleads guilty to an April armed robbery in court on Monday.

Courtesy Images Here are just two of the 10 historic photos aspiring fiction writers can choose to write about in the library’s story contest.

News Photo by Steve Schulwitz Alpena police, fire, and ambulance crews respond to a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Ripley Boulevard this afternoon. Paramedics at the scene were administering first aid to the occupants, but there was no update on their condition.

News Photo by Steve Schulwitz New Alpena Planning and Development Director Andrea Kares was busy getting settled into her new position on Monday.

News Photo by Crystal Nelson Alpena Community College students James Morrison and Austin Eller complete a test as part of the college’s manufacturing program.

Courtesy Photos If you have a match to any of these four historic photos by early Alpena photographers, contact the Northeast Michigan Genealogical Society to help identify the people photographed.

News Photo by Julie Riddle A Michigan State Police trooper on the scene where a Jeep left M-32 west of Lachine Tuesday morning in a two-vehicle collision that caused no injuries. The driver of the Jeep — a medical supply representative on his way to Traverse City — clipped a compact sedan as he was trying to merge back into traffic after passing a truck as all three vehicles traveled west. The Jeep careened off the road and into a ditch, taking one post of a two-legged sign with it. The front driver’s side of the Jeep and rear passenger side of the sedan sustained significant damage, but both drivers were checked by medical personnel and released.

News Photo by Julie Riddle A Jeep that left M-32 west of Lachine Tuesday morning is seen after a two-vehicle collision that caused no injuries. The driver of the Jeep — a medical supply representative on his way to Traverse City — clipped a compact sedan as he was trying to merge back into traffic after passing a truck as all three vehicles traveled west. The Jeep careened off the road and into a ditch, taking one post of a two-legged sign with it. The front driver’s side of the Jeep and rear passenger side of the sedan sustained significant damage, but both drivers were checked by medical personnel and released.

News Photo by Steve Schulwitz National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration engineer Kyle Beadle helps steady one of NOAA’s research boats at the small boat harbor in Alpena before the vessel is taken out of the water for the winter.

Courtesy Photo Officer David Belknap is presented with an Alpena Police Department badge by his wife, Jamie, on Monday.

News Photo by Julie Riddle A firefighter reaches out a broken basement window after a fire burned a 3rd Avenue home in Alpena today.

News Photo by Julie Riddle Firefighters strategize as smoke pours from the front door of an Alpena home where a fire started in the basement this afternoon.

News Photo by Julie Riddle A resident who escaped with his two dogs and called 911 watches as firefighters tame a fire in his Alpena home this afternoon.

News Photo by Julie Riddle Firefighters watch flames inside the front door of a 3rd Avenue home in Alpena today. The afternoon fire was put out within about an hour by city and township fire crews.

News Photo by Julie Riddle Firefighters pry up siding to find fire that has crept inside the walls of an Alpena home today.

News Photo by Julie Riddle Plaster flies in a blast of water from the hoses of firefighters inside an Alpena home as, outside, firefighters chop holes through siding to stop the spread of the fire that started in the home’s basement today.

News Photo by Julie Riddle A firefighter jets water into a battered outside wall, dousing flames that climbed through its beams from the basement of an Alpena home today.

News Photo by Alyssa Ochss Wrapped in smoke, firefighters plan an entry into an Alpena home where a basement fire spread through the walls this afternoon.

News Photo by Alyssa Ochss Homeowner Mary Buza is comforted by family members as she watches firefighters attack a fire at her 3rd Avenue home today.

News Photo by Crystal Nelson Health Officer Denise Bryan, center, is pictured during the District Health Department No. 4 board meeting on Tuesday in Rogers City.

Courtesy Photos Above is a handmade baby quilt covering an isolette in the NICU at Mott Hospital. The quilt was provided by Preemie Pals, the organization the Kiwanis Club partners with to contribute handmade quilts to infants.

Above, Ginny Roland works on sewing a quilt.

Above is a photo of Kiwanis Club of Alpena members Ginny and Rocky Roland handing off the 125 handmade quilts to be donated to Preemie Pals, with Nancy Memmer, Michigan District Kiwanis liaison for Preemie Pals.

News File Photo Gen-Ar’s, seen here in this October 2020 News file photo, is closing.

News Photo by Steve Schulwitz Suez operations and maintenance tech employee Richard Kroll monitors work at the water plant in Alpena on Wednesday.

News Photo by Julie Riddle Manager Stacey Horton tends the register of the Alpena General Store while Assistant Manager Jeremy Hamann totes a basketful of meat. People who need help accessing healthy food should be given that help, Horton said.

News Photo by Crystal Nelson Lincoln Manor resident Ron Williams on Wednesday looks at documents sent to him by Legal Services of Northern Michigan, a law firm he’s trying to recruit, in his Lincoln Manor apartment in Lincoln.

Courtesy Photo Ella White Dean of Student Support Jenny Marceau poses as the “I in kind” in an anti-bullying poster.

Above is a message reading “Be Kind,” created with red plastic cups in the chain-link fence on the 3rd Avenue side of Ella White.

Above, Ella White students pose with a poster they made about caring, featuring colorful hot air balloons with notes to remind everyone how to be kind to others.

News File Photo Alpena fullback Kaydn Budnick (32) evades a tackles from Gaylord’s Spencer Opperman during a football game at Park Family Field at Wildcat Stadium this season.

News Photo by Crystal Nelson Christie Thomas, principal of Alcona Middle and High schools, works in her office on Thursday in Lincoln.

News Photo by Steve Schulwitz Now-former Alpena Township building official Kirk Malcomson, left, shakes hands with his former boss, township Supervisor Nathan Skibbe, minutes after the township board voted to terminate him.

News Photo by Julie Riddle Accompanied by Irish field setter Gus, longtime hunter Kristen Bartz holds her rifle outside her Alpena County home.

News Photo by Julie Riddle Firefighters from the Alpena Fire Department put away hoses after a fire drill at the Pinecrest Manor Apartments in Alpena on Thursday. The drill was one of seven to be conducted by Nov. 2 at area living complexes considered to be high-hazard buildings because of interior hallways. Many of the residents couldn’t hear the alarm through their doors during Thursday’s practice-run, alarms didn’t go off throughout the complex simultaneously, and some information on a map of the building was upside-down -- all reasons that fire drills are necessary and could save lives, said Capt. Andy Marceau, community risk reduction officer for the Alpena Fire Department.

News Photo by Steve Schulwitz Political signs, like the ones seen here on Thursday, are becoming more abundant in Alpena, but some people think they do little to help a candidate.

Kathy Kindt poses for a photo at Flannel Fun Night. She attended the event with her neighbor and was expecting a big turnout despite the rain.

Courtesy Photos Members of Alpha Xi Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma prepare apples with thank-you notes for local school employees and service groups.

Courtesy Photos Members of Alpha Xi Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma prepare apples with thank-you notes for local school employees and service groups.

Courtesy Photo Tim Tapert is seen this photo he provided to The News posing with the two bucks — and eight-pointer and a nine-pointer — he harvested within two minutes of each other on Oct. 9 in Posen with a compound bow. “Truly the most incredible hunt I have been a part of,” he wrote.

Courtesy Photo A closeup shot of a whitetail deer in winter in an Upper Peninsula deer wintering complex is seen in this undated photo provided by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

Courtesy Photo Russell Alger

News File Photo Frank Kelley, center, Michigan’s longest-serving attorney general, smiles at the 2013 unveiling of a plaque honoring him at the Alpena County Courthouse. Kelley was city attorney in Alpena before being tapped by Gov. John Swainson to be attorney general.

Courtesy Photo Leon Czolgosz’s mug shot.

News File Photo Sarah Palin, former vice presidential candidate and former governor of Alaska, campaigns for Donald Trump in Alpena in 2016.

Courtesy Photo Gov. William Comstock pours a beer in this photo provided by Robert Haltiner through Alpena County Library Special Collections Department.

News Photo by Julie Riddle A man is given a field sobriety test after a crash today near the U.S.-23/Ripley Boulevard intersection.

News Photo by Julie Riddle A motorist is loaded into an ambulance following a crash today at the U.S.-23/Ripley Boulevard intersection.

News File Photo Glimpsed over the railing at the Alpena marina breakwall, the Alpena pulls out of dock at the Lafarge North America plant in late summer.

News Photo by Crystal Nelson Alpena High School French teacher Heather Stutzman is pictured in her classroom last week.