Artist Sydney Compeau, of Harrisville, this week put the finishing touches on a colorful, Michigan-themed mural on the side of Colburn Outfitters at 108 N. 2nd Ave. in downtown Alpena. The mural is one of four being painted this summer as part of the Alpena Downtown Development Authority’s ...
Raise your hand if you have a bucket list. A survey conducted by Stanford University School of Medicine found that over 90% of participants had a bucket list. The term bucket list became commonplace following a movie written by Justin Zackham in 1999. The movie, Bucket List, starring Jack ...
In the fall of 2010, I stepped into my very first classroom as a high school English teacher. My classroom was in a rural Michigan town that I had not heard of before. I had applied for the teaching position with a hard drive full of engaging lesson plans on analyzing classic to contemporary ...
Animal cruelty cases are on the rise both locally and statewide, and that concerns us mightily. Animal cruelty cases across Northeast Michigan increased 50% between 2020 and 2022, the most recent year for which data was available, according to figures local police agencies report to the ...
Mom was up at the crack of dawn on Election Day. Not because she wanted to be first in line to vote. She had a more compelling reason. As captain of the team of volunteer poll workers, she needed to be at City Hall, just across the street, before the voters started pouring in at 7 a.m. ...
Where has the time gone? We dreamed about you and then you appeared, at first a confirmation on a screen, then in an invisible yet undeniable fashion over the course of nine months. Your sister came along four years later, eliciting the same amount of wonder and excitement. Where has the ...