A science teacher at Posen High School recently received a $2,000 grant to fund her Great Lakes Marine Debris Prevention Program. Stephanie Goebel teaches science to students in grades 9-12. She ...

LaRae Rutenbar has been named the 2026 Golfer of the Year by the Alpena Golf Club Ladies Golf Association. Rutenbar received the honor at the club and was photographed with the association’s perpetual ...

Voters across Alpena County will have two main ways to cast a ballot before Election Day on Nov. 3: in-person early voting at a single county site and no-excuse absentee voting by mail or drop-off, ...

Preliminary examinations for Benjamin Mckinnon, 46, and Heather Phillips, 42, were both adjourned on Wednesday in the 88th District Court in Alpena. Mckinnon is charged with five weapons felonies and ...

Summer is over, the kids are back in school and will be in class nearly every Monday through Friday except for a few days at Thanksgiving until their Holiday break over Christmas and New Years, ...

We all have done something that if we had to do it over wouldn’t have. Perfect example, Labor Day, Swami and his family were taking out the dock and boat hoists for the season. Before everyone arrived ...

The freedom of speech and of the press is not a gift bestowed by a president, Congress or a federal agency. It is a natural right of all persons. The First Amendment does not create that right; it ...

The Alpena High School girls swimming team defeated Alma 108-60 on Tuesday in a dual meet. Alpena took first in the opening 200-yard medley relay with Elizabeth Rabbideau, Penelope Conboy, Tryst ...

One of the primary tenets of the American legal system is the importance of precedent; the common law doctrine of “stare decisis” means “to stand by things decided.” The purpose of law in such a ...

Conservation nonprofit Huron Pines and the City of Alpena are breaking ground on two new rain gardens in the downtown area, the latest in a slate of community-chosen infrastructure projects and ...

In the satirical 1964 anti-war film “Dr. Strangelove,” fears of a “Doomsday machine,” an automated, unstoppable device programmed to trigger global nuclear annihilation if the Soviet Union is attacked ...

Sam Bastow scored twice in the first half as Alpena blanked Cadillac 2-0 in boys varsity soccer on Tuesday. Bastow opened the scoring early after receiving a pass from Mason Burns. He added his second ...