HILLMAN – Habitat for Humanity Northeast Michigan has received a $102,000 grant from Lowe’s to help repair at least 12 homes within their coverage area of Alpena, Alcona, Montmorency, Presque Isle, and Oscoda counties. These critical home repairs will allow homeowners to stay in their ...
Sarah Moe Melching Earns Michigan Professional Emergency Manager Certification PRESQUE ISLE, MI — Sarah Moe Melching, a Presque Isle Township resident and current Emergency Management Director for Montmorency County, has earned her Professional Emergency Manager (PEM) designation through ...
Tis the Season for Lake Trout and Whitefish Jim Johnson With Halloween and Thanksgiving comes spawning time for lake whitefish and lake trout in Lake Huron. And, until recently, Thunder Bay was where the action was. The DNR was out there every fall taking biological data from the spawning ...
Million-acre fires here? Yes. They’re part of our Lake States history and contributed to the forest composition that we enjoy today. While monster conflagrations are unlikely to happen in the near future, wildfire remains a threat to human welfare. The deadliest wildfire in the U.S. was the 1871 Peshtigo Fire. It scorched well over a million acres, torched 17 villages, and killed more than 1200 people. The personal accounts are horrific. And, this was a time when relatively few people lived in the northern hinterlands. Most the fire was in Wisconsin, with roughly 150,000 acres ...
ALPENA - The Alpena-Montmorency-Alcona Educational Service District (AMA ESD) extends its sincere appreciation to voters, families, staff, and community members across Alpena, Montmorency, and Alcona counties following the successful renewal of its special education millage in the Nov. 3 ...
Even Godzilla can be felled by an old hazard: the sophomore slump. Though Godzilla has been stomping around for more than half a century, “Godzilla Minus Zero” is a sequel. It follows the quite excellent, Oscar-winning “Godzilla Minus One,” a reset for the kaiju franchise that brought ...
