We understand some people will be peeved Alpena will again shoot off July 4 fireworks on July 3 next year. Tradition, after all, matters. But we know our city leaders have done all they can to make the fireworks show a great one, and we choose to look on the bright side of things. The ...

Last week started with a story about the 1997 rain and flood and the game we couldn’t get to. I’ll start this week’s column with a game the very next Friday. The game was at Hemlock against neighboring rival Saginaw Swan Valley. It was Hemlock’s homecoming game. Now, I need to ...

Alpena has always been known as a waterfront community. Simply put, its strategic location where the Thunder Bay River watershed terminates into Thunder Bay is the main reason humans came and stayed here for thousands of years. As the logging industry saw the immense potential of northern ...

The phone rang five to six times a day for three days from assorted strange-looking numbers. Always aware of scams and possessing an “unusual,” demented sense of humor, I would answer each one, sounding like a decrepit “old lady.” The voice on the other end was clearly from ...

The Michigan Civil Rights Commission visited Alpena this week to host its regular meeting and passed a resolution calling for legislative reforms to protect the public from some of the dangers of artificial intelligence. Among the reforms the commission asked for: ∫ legislation to prevent ...

Retirement and the end of a football season have a lot in common. In the workplace, it is getting up and doing your best for an entire day. In football, once the school day is done, it is time to go to work, practicing for the upcoming game. Four days of practice and a Friday night ...