The Alpena County Library will be closed on Friday for mandatory staff training. The library will reopen on Saturday at 9 a.m. The library will also be closed on Monday in observance of Presidents' Day.

The Alpena Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting its annual banquet on Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Aplex in Alpena. This year's theme is "Parading Progress - A Night of Crowning Success" and there is a $40 per person fee. The event will feature a cash bar, social hour, appetizers, awards ...

Anglophile, author, and journalist Claire Evans returns virtually to the Alpena County Library on Feb. 26 at 5:30 p.m. to present one of her newer talks about Yaupon Tea. Few people realize there is a delicious, viable competitor to imported coffee and tea, much revered by Native Americans, ...

On Feb. 28 and March 1, people can watch “Sorting Fish and a Breakaway Buoy,” the latest episode of Great Lakes Now from Detroit PBS. During this episode of Great Lakes Now, explore a project on a Michigan river that keeps undesirable fish away. Then the show will take viewers on a canoe ...