As I was scrolling through Saturday’s paper, I was dismayed to see that the paper selected another cartoon ridiculing the Department of the Interior’s move to rename existing geographic features with derogatory names to names that better reflect those locations’ history or environment. ...

After a successful six-month contract with the City of Alpena to provide fire protection, the Alpena Township Board of Trustees voted to reject a long term agreement by a vote of 3-4. The township board is hoping to rebuild the fire department at a significant cost to the taxpayers. So far they ...

As a lifelong resident of Alpena, and a retired teacher of APS, I strongly urge you to support Sarah Fritz, Anna Meinhardt, Tom Hilberg, and Ned Heath in our upcoming school board election. We need school board members who will work to support all students in our district, no matter their race ...

I have lived and worked in this community for 50 years, 35 years I was at Alpena High School. Now as a grandparent, I take my grandson to the junior high school. At 1 today (Wednesday) I was trying to turn left from Bagley onto Third Ave. There were four cars in front of me and it took four ...

Before you make a decision and vote for school board members — between now and November 8--research the options carefully. Are your candidates committed to attending at least two in-person evening meetings each month, and will they come to each meeting prepared and ready to learn, discuss, ...

How did politicians’ views become so extreme? ‘We The People’ have literally turned over our country’s democratic future to politicians and the oligarchy who can buy, well, a Supreme Court! Perhaps this ethical breakdown we are experiencing started when corporations became ...