HILLMAN — Girl Scout cadets Helana Burns and Zoey Clayton of Hillman Troop #4810 completed their Silver Award and presented 49 handmade blankets to the Department of Health and Human Services on April 15. The Silver Award is the highest award that can be earned for middle school aged Girl ...
ALPENA — Funding for two $8,000 whisper rooms was approved at the Alpena County board of commissioners Finance, Ways, and Means committee meeting last Tuesday. Whisper rooms are like old fashioned telephone booths, Alpena County Sheriff Erik Smith said, that will allow inmates to have ...
ALPENA — April 12 to 18 was National Public Safety Telecommunicators week, celebrating the unseen heroes of 911 dispatch centers across the country. At the Alpena 911 Central Dispatch, Lead Dispatcher Rory Sherwood, and dispatchers Jonathan Sanchez and Adam Lumsden, said that the best part ...
ALPENA — First Congregational United Church of Christ (UCC) in Alpena announced the arrival of its new settled pastor, Rev. Laura Hoffman, this month. She is the congregation’s first female pastor. Her first time leading Sunday service at UCC was yesterday. Hoffman said that it is not ...