Once again, at the April 28 APS board meeting, the dysfunction of some APS school board members was on full agonizing display. Not for the first time, the issue was about “Bathroom Policy.” To recap: APS has a bathroom use policy that, according to students, teachers, and administrators, is ...

After four months in Florida, I returned to Alpena and found the same rantings of Trump-hating individuals, writing letters to the editor. One person whom I will call D.N. wrote (Trump’s four years of insanity) about all of the so-called misdeeds of our president. Most of those are the same ...

The U.S. Congress must reject President Donald Trump’s plans to make disastrous cuts to child care and eliminate Head Start! We have witnessed a barrage of attacks on child care and Head Start by President Trump and his administration since he took office. Most recently, leaked details of ...

Historical May days: Nazi Germany surrenders WWII May 7, 1945; Brown vs. Board of Education May 17, 1954, International Day for Biological Diversity May 22, 1993, and of course a mirriad of everyday fun things that Americans love to celebrate: Mother’s Day! We celebrate these ways of life and ...

To the Editor, At a time when Alpena High School students are asking for real leadership — to raise test scores and improve their education — certain members of the APS Board are instead fixated on where students use the bathroom. Let’s be honest: the proposed bathroom policy isn’t ...

APS should be ashamed of the example they set for their own students attending the last board meeting. Anna Meinhart and David Rabbideau lost control of the meeting by allowing clapping, cheering, booing, and even allowing personal attacks regarding board members by calling out school board ...