ALPENA — The Friends of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and the Michigan Spearfishing Association are co-hosting an event on Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center featuring Kimi Werner. She is traveling the midwest to research a new cookbook that will feature ...

ALPENA — The Association of Lifelong Learners (ALL) has a full slate of programs next week. Below is more information about some of them. Michigan History Day Film Festival Tuesday, July 7, 2026 ACC Madeline Briggs Center 143 from noon until 1 p.m. Michigan students in 3-12th grades ...

ALPENA — Jim Johnson, retired fisheries biologist and Besser Museum curator, gave The News a one-on-one curator tour of the museum’s Great Lakes Fisheries Heritage exhibit, which features a Great Lakes gill net fishing tug, the Katherine V. The tug boat represents a bygone era of Great ...

ALPENA – Communities throughout Alpena County and surrounding areas are preparing for Independence Day events featuring parades, fireworks displays and family activities that highlight Northeast Michigan’s shoreline traditions and mark the nation’s 250th anniversary. Page Fisher, ...

By REAGAN VOETBERG News Staff Writer ALPENA — The period for recall petitions signing for Alpena Public Schools Board Members Eric Lawson, Sarah Costain, and Monica Dziesinski has come to a close, and the unofficial count by recall organizers shows enough signatures to put the three board ...