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, ...

ALPENA – We are 37 days away from the official start of spring. For local road commissions that means their salt supply is dwindling and decisions whether to replenish their stock will have to be made. Salt for the road plays a big role in maintaining public safety, especially during the ...

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 ...