ALPENA — The Alpena High football team came up short against Petoskey on Friday. The Wildcats lost 24-20, dropping to 1-4 on the season. Trailing by four late in the game, Alpena’s bid for its first Big North Conference win of the year was ultimately stopped. With 2:03 left, Alpena got ...

GRAYLING — The ACC cross country team took a huge step towards its season goals on Friday night. The Lumberjacks took advantage of the near-perfect running conditions at Kirtland College Firebird Invitational held at Hanson Hills in Grayling to continue to drop times. Five of the seven ...

CROSS COUNTRY Alpena results from Petoskey Invitational on Sept. 24 Alpena’s girls team finished fourth. Emma Dickins led Alpena’s girls team with a fifth-place finish (20:01), she was followed by Izzy Szymanski (12th, 21:30), Amelia Roznowski (17th, 22:31), Alison Borowski (21st, ...

HARRISVILLE — Stashed away in boxes and binders, tucked away in tubs and situated on shelves throughout Don Franklin’s house is decades worth of baseball history. Franklin, 80, is a lifelong baseball fan and a lifelong collector of baseball cards. By his own estimation, he’s got between ...

Alpena’s Kaleb Donajkowski scored three touchdowns on runs of 5, 63, and 2 yards for Alpena in a 24-20 loss to Petoskey on Friday at Park Family Field at Wildcat Stadium. Petoskey took the lead late in the third quarter and never relinquished it. A last-second pass by Alpena was caught in the ...

ALPENA — With just 32 points over its first four games, offense has been hard for the Alpena High football team to come by. But slow starts have also been a thorn in the Wildcats’ side. Alpena (1-3) has scored just seven points in the first quarter this season and, too often, it has had ...