ALPENA — The Northeast Michigan Materials Management Authority (NMMMA) approved reducing their business membership fees by about 72%, from $360 per year to $100 per year. The board also approved the purchase of a dump trailer, the 2026 Fiscal Year budget, and updated their price ...

ALPENA – Nobody understands the importance of the holiday shopping season like a local small business. In a world where you can easily access gifts from anywhere, shopping locally is more important than ever. Tony Dimaria, bar manager of Rusty Petunias Marketplace, discussed the preparation ...

ALPENA — The nursing students at the Alpena Community College celebrated pinning on Wednesday night, as each of the 30 RN students and five LPN students received their nursing pins, which were presented by friends or family that are nurses, or a member of the college’s nursing program ...

We could have had a Christmas carnival. That was the plan for the youth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They wanted to invite others in the community to join in a Christmas celebration and were excited thinking of all the creative booths they would set up. But then it ...

Poetics Lab and Fireside Theatrics are gearing up for several events and are asking the pubic to attend to help support local arts and entertainment. First, Poetics Lab will host its monthly open mic at PIF Cider at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 20. The large event by Fireside Theatrics should be ...