Dear Editor, On behalf of the Kiwanis Club of Alpena, we would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the Alpena community for their incredible generosity and support of our recent used book sale. Thanks to the overwhelming number of book donations from local residents and the ...

Dear Editor, We are very fortunate to have a community newspaper with such a variety of features and an editorial page that devotes equal space to diverse viewpoints of a given issue. I only wonder that, if staff stories include a reporter’s byline and letters to the editor “must be ...

Irony — incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs. Donald J. Trump — a self-confessed liar and cheat and convicted federal felon. A walking and talking con-man and President of the United States of America. Elected by an electoral and low-income people (people ...

I was disheartened to read the recent article, “Programs at Head Start negligent, mismanaged,” in The Alpena News. While the GAO report raises serious concerns about interim-managed Head Start programs, it is unfair and misleading to paint all Head Start programs with the same broad brush ...

My sister has a concern: There is a 16-year-old neighbor girl who has to walk a half mile to the bus stop at 5:30 a.m. (In town, it is three blocks to the farthest bus stop). She walks 1.5 miles at 3 p.m. to reach home. She has been told not to accept rides from anyone, including people she ...

Editor: Our democracy stands off the cornerstone of the three branches of government. The 1st district elected Congressman Jack Bergman to study the needs of our region and country and to craft laws to meet those needs. In addition, as an elected Congressional representative, we gave him ...