ALPENA — A free lecture by author Steven Tongue on Thursday will highlight 150 years of the Thunder Bay Island Lifeboat Station. The lecture will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center. Tongue, author of “Lanterns and Lifeboats - A History of Thunder ...
ALPENA - Residents are encouraged to come out and support local veterans at the Purple Heart Day ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. on Friday at Veterans Park. The free event, organized by the Alpena Veterans’ Council under Marine Corps League Alpena Detachment 1327, will honor Purple Heart ...
ALPENA — The number of petition signatures does not meet the threshold to trigger a recall election of Alpena Public Schools Board of Education members Eric Lawson, Sarah Costain, and Monica Dziesinski, according to final tallies. Alpena County Clerk Keri Bertrand said that Lawson had ...
ALPENA — At July’s Alpena County Board of Commissioner’s Personnel Committee meeting, commissioners voted to move the vacant emergency management position to the Alpena County Sheriff’s Office. On Tuesday, at the board’s monthly bard of commissioners' meeting, the commissioners ...
ALPENA - July brought warmer-than-normal temperatures and significantly above-average rainfall to the Alpena area, according to data from the National Weather Service (NWS) and comments from Meteorologist Eleanor Delizio of the NWS Gaylord office. The average temperature for the month ...
ALPENA - On Friday, at approximately 2 p.m., Alpena Marina staff noticed a sheen on the water near the north end of the marina. The staff responded it immediately and determined that the spill involved approximately two gallons or less of diesel fuel. The Harbormaster contacted the National ...
