Notes from Regular Board meeting Monday, September 22nd: - Sarah Costain was absent. Costain has missed 1/3 of all Regular Board meetings since she took her seat in January. - Eric Lawson, Eric Hanson, Monica Dzieinski and AJ MacArthur needed reminding that their vote to award a contract to a ...

With no shortage of irony, Brynne Fairbanks’ Letter to the Editor on Oct 4th titled “APS Board Critics are Leaving out Facts” was filled with misleading information and zero facts. Where do I begin?! I’ll start by addressing the false information about the rain garden project that was ...

The term “assassination” is reserved for the murder of a prominent person for political reasons. Certainly, the murder of Charlie Kirk was the most recent assassination. People’s response has been very emotional, and we are tempted to hate. People are tempted to hate the assassin, those ...

Dave Bondy worked as a journalist for 25 years. At Dave's last job he was the main anchor and digital content manager for Fox and NBC affiliated TV stations in Flint. He has over 700,000 followers on social media. Embarrassingly, Alpena Public Schools made statewide news when Dave Bondy shared ...

At the August Alpena Public Schools board meeting, many instructional aides attended to voice their dissatisfaction of how they were treated during a staff meeting. As of Aug. 31, they had 107 instructional assistants, with 27 vacant positions. The instructional aides were asked to help ...

We are writing as President of the Parent Advisory Council (PAC) at Besser Elementary and President of the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) at Ella White Elementary in response to the recent suggestion in a Letter to the Editor that Alpena schools should “bring back PTAs.” In fact, parent ...