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Business owners prep for large turn-out for Nautical City Festival

ROGERS CITY—This week, a small, Northeast Michigan town is lively. Colorful rides, tents and street vendors line the harbor of Rogers City. An unusual amount of traffic fills the streets of the small downtown area and business owners see more customers than they would for the entire year. ...

Northern Strike sharpens aeromedical evacuation for joint operations

ALPENA – Aeromedical evacuation crews converted a C-130 Hercules from a cargo aircraft into a flying hospital on Tuesday as part of joint training during Exercise Northern Strike 26-2, practicing the rapid movement of patients under realistic, high-pressure conditions. Lieutenant Colonel ...

Community celebrates 30 years of Community Church in the Park

ALPENA — For 30 years, Community Church in the Park has been an ongoing staple each Sunday throughout the summer months at the Bay View Park bandshell. In 1996, a group of Alpena church leaders, including Mary and Larry Thomson and Russ Anderson, had a dream for a special way to gather ...

Alpena County Older Persons Committee meeting

A meeting of the Alpena County Older Persons Committee will be held on Tuesday at 3 p.m. in the Howard Male Conference Room. The meeting is open to the public under the Open Meetings Act of Michigan.

Construction to extend U.S.-23 bike path will begin next summer

ALPENA — The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will be starting construction to extend a bike path in Alpena Township next summer. MDOT will be extending the current pathway along U.S.-23 South that ends at Island Drive to South Partridge Point Road and Outer Drive. The plan is ...