I am so happy for Alpena folks that do not have to drink water that is spiked with fluoride. More than 400 animal and human studies show fluoride is a neurotoxic substance, and many have found harm at, or precariously close to, the levels millions of American pregnant women and children ...

At the Jan. 24 meeting, the Alpena County Board of Commissioners had an opportunity to demonstrate their support for “election integrity”. Unusual employment circumstances restricted sitting commissioner John Kozlowski from campaigning to retain his position. In addition, his employment ...

We learn from scanning headlines in a recent edition of The Alpena News that the nickname for the women’s sports teams at the local community college is the Lady Lumberjacks. The Lady Lumberjacks, still in 2023. A woman has been the presidential nominee of one of the two major parties, ...

Having just read what appears to be Julie Riddle’s last column for The Alpena News, I realized our area is losing a graceful and gentle soul. I never really got to know Julie except through her writing in the news. She did her job quietly and with grace. It was seen in her writing and how ...

I have been attending township, city, county and recently Alcona County Commission on Aging meetings for over 10 years. Never in all this time have I experienced the degrading level of combatant behavior of a subgroup as I have with ACCOA in the last five months. This subgroup has always been ...

I am always delighted to see Eric Roorda’s drawings in The Alpena News since anything created locally deserves my attention and appreciation. I was surprised to see the recent Duck Park cartoon was not so well received. It appears that the writer took too deep a dive into what message the ...