The Alpena County Courts and Public Safety Committee will meet at 4 p.m. Monday in the Howard Male Conference Room in the county’s annex building, 719 W. Chisholm St. This meeting is open to the public and public comment is welcome.

ALPENA — Alpena High School teacher Andrew Wolfgang will lead the next lecture in the Sanctuary Lecture Series, titled Birds of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The free lecture will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24 at the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center, 500 W. ...

ALPENA — If a proposed tax renewal for the Alpena County Library isn’t approved by voters in August, the library will close. That’s what library officials say the consequences are if the current property tax isn’t extended. A new tax proposal could also be on the ballot and if it ...

ALPENA — MyMichigan Health, the Midland-based owner of the Alpena hospital, named MyMichigan Medical Center Alpena President Mike Erickson as the future leader for the new medical locations in Saginaw, Tawas, and Standish on Thursday. In late March, MyMichigan Health signed an agreement ...

ALPENA — Sometimes known as the coral reefs of northern U.S. forests, because of their vast biodiversity, vernal pools are small bodies of water that act as wetlands for amphibians and crustaceans only seen between April and May. On May 3 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Herman Vogler ...

ALPENA — Alpena County released the names of the three finalists who will be interviewed for the vacant county administrator position. In a press release, the county says that current commissioner Jesse Osmer, former Alpena County Administrator Jeff Thornton, and former Gladwin County ...