Please vote yes on the library’s millage renewal in the upcoming election. The Alpena County Library is a cornerstone of our community. It is literally built on an historic corner of our community’s downtown and serves as a regional hub. This is the point from where the first permanent ...

Broke, broker, or broken? Is it today we break, yesterday we broke, and many times we have broken? It really isn’t that all confusing if you think about it. Presque Isle County is broke, the powers that be, the brokers, broke it and for many years we have lived in a broken community. ...

A recent New York Times article titled “The business of healthcare depends on exploiting doctors and nurses” explains how providers are forced to take on increasing workloads and responsibilities without compensation by relying on their high moral and altruistic values of doing what is best ...

I am not sure if Letters to the Editor is the most appropriate forum for pro-choice/pro-life debate, but after reading recent letters I feel I must comment. Mr. Mike Westfall (PI) states everyone other than a “Christian” is hypocritical regarding their abortion views. Mr. Westfall, you ...

My wife, Stefanie, and I had the wonderful opportunity to listen to Joe Grimm, the author of “The Faygo Book,” tell his story of the origin of that beloved Michigan pop, Faygo. It was presented by the Presque Isle District Library System with support from the 2019 Michigan Notable Books ...

We give thanks to those who gave their lives 75 years ago on D-Day, so that we now can live in freedom. Now, we can do more than give thanks, we can be worthy of their action. We are the government, each one of us. What happens on our watch is up to us. We need our good health, education, and ...

It seems there are two sides to the Alpena area PFAS problem. PFAS, a large group of manmade chemicals known as polyfluoroalkyl substances, are used to make products like non-stick kitchenware, waterproofed clothing, shoes, and furniture, found in fast food wrappers, pizza boxes, paper cups, ...

It never ceases to amaze me how government entities spend taxpayer dollars. In yesterday’s paper was an insert entitled “A-M-A Today” that, upon flipping through, I noticed there was no advertisers, none. So this insert seems to be totally funded (both money and man-hours) by the ...

To the Good Samaritan who befriended me at the cashier line in Walmart Thursday night, June 6, I thank the Lord for placing you there for me. Your thoughtfulness, patience, and protectiveness still overwhelm me. Even though we have never met before, somehow I feel we have. Since it was so ...

I urge everyone to vote for the millage renewal for the Alpena County Library on Aug. 6. This is a 0.25-mill renewal. It will not increase your current tax bill (but it will lengthen the time it is in effect). The average household will pay $12 a year. You can check your tax bill under ...

On Thursday, May 23, the Brownies, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, and Boy Scouts with their leaders, VFW Post 607 and the Rogers City Servicemen Club members went to the Memorial Park Cemetery to put the American flag on each veteran’s grave that is laid to rest. It takes a couple of hours to make ...

In my last letter, I reported the taking of a yearling doe from my son’s front yard on Easter Sunday by the Alpena County Animal Control officer and a DNR officer. The deer was a free-ranging, never penned animal. They told us it was too tame. However, it traveled the acres surrounding the ...

We appreciate Steve Schulwtiz’s article on the great service clubs in Alpena. We feel it’s important to let the community know about the Exchange Club of Alpena and the work of our members. The Exchange Club of Alpena was established Sept. 11, 1925. We currently have 48 members. Our ...

Listen closely, Mr. Shuman, you may learn something. Once the 23 chromosomes from the father and 23 chromosomes from the mother are merged into 46 chromosomes, the result is a cell with the immediate DNA and genetic code of a human being. It is a life! Scripture clearly defines fetuses in the ...

Dear Reader, have you considered the rant, in a recent letter to the editor, calling for the protection of reproductive rights? Since when did the government or anyone deny anyone reproductive rights? In fact there are concerns that there isn’t enough reproduction of human beings. What the ...

Being a 29-year subscriber to the Alpena News, I have read many columns by people who portray themselves as the sole voice of reason in the arena of public thought and discourse. Columnists trying to tell you that water is not wet and the sky is not blue. Elections have consequences and the ...

On May 29, Special Counsel Robert Mueller held his first public statement in two years since starting his investigation, and it was remarkable: “If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.” Now that Mueller has said his hands were and ...

Let’s be honest about two things: one, the attack on Roe v. Wade is the first step in the attack on the right to privacy growing out of Griswold v. Connecticut. The next step is warrantless searches and the return of sodomy laws and “(n)othing was your own, except a few cubic centimetres in ...

I appreciated Jackie Krawczak’s commentary in the 5/23/19 Alpena News. If there is one person who embodies the heart of our community and shows her tenacious commitment to Alpena, it is Jackie Krawczak. She is a role model for our community. Her advice in that column is important: There is ...

What’s a person to do? At least twice each day we get a robo call offering to reduce our interest rate on a credit card. This has gone on for over two years, we have tried calling to get off the call list, answering the phone asking to remove us from the list. The real problem is they are ...