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Strummin'
News Photo by Lori Werth
The Birch Road String Band plays Wednesday evening to a large and lively crowd at the Brown Trout Festival small tent. Band members from left to right are Spencer Cain, Skip Brown, Jeff Shea, Al Konicek and Gene Pokorzynski.
July 23, 2008
Chub White, man who led by example, dies
July 23, 2008
Those who knew Chub White remember him as a good, capable and fair man who loved fine wine, classical music and sailing.
The former Fletcher Paper Company general manager died Sunday. He was 88 years old.
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Brown Trout Standings
July 23, 2008
Brown Trout
1. Nick Alexander 14 pounds
2. Chris Fochman 13.4 pounds
Walleye
1. Ben Skiba 7.35 pounds
2. Steve Kiraly 7.2 pounds
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Library names new director
July 23, 2008
Eric Magness-Eubank of Salem, Ind., has been chosen by a nine-member selection committee as the new director of the Alpena County Library. He will replace current Director Judi Stillion, who is retiring after 37 years of service to the library.
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Top Headline Poll
What is your favorite part about the Brown Trout Festival?
The fishing
17%
The socializing
54%
The entertainment
29%
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Enough already
Wed, July 16, 2008 @ 2:44PM
So let's see an honest show of hands. How many of you actually stayed up to watch the entire Major League Baseball All-Star Game on Tuesday night? Because of my job, which keeps me in the office until at least 11 p.m. every night, I tend to be a bit of a night owl. But even I didn't make it long enough to see Justin Morneau score the winning run in the 15th inning of the midsummer classic sometime after 1:30 a.m. Tuesday's game was yet another example of one of the major things that are wrong with sports these days — games start so late and last so long that everyone not living in Hawaii, Alaska or along the western edge of the United States is sleeping by the time the games are completed. It makes me shake my head when I see footage of All-Star Games past where the games were played in daylight. Obviously, that was well before television wielded its powerful hand and decided everything needed to be done during prime time.
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The baby bump
Fri, June 20, 2008 @ 7:35PM
Did your jaw drop like mine when you found out about the pregnancy pact high school girls took in, Gloucester, Mass.? Here’s the lead paragraphs from the Associated Press: “The girls showed up repeatedly at the high school health clinic, asking for pregnancy tests. But their reactions to the test results were puzzling: high-fives if they were expecting, long faces if they weren’t. “School officials in this hard-luck New England fishing town say an alarming 17 girls — four times the usual number — became pregnant this year. And even more disturbing: Some of the girls may have made a pact to have babies and raise them together.” School officials neither confirm nor deny on the record. However, the story first broke when Time magazine did the story and quoted the principal — who “coincidently” was out of the office on Friday.
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Gas below $4 a gallon
Sun, July 13, 2008 @ 2:33PM
Is it a possibility that gas can be found below $4 a gallon? If you head to Ohio it can, and last two days ago I filled my tank for $3.76 a gallon in Cleveland. While gas on the Ohio Turnpike hovered at just over the $4 mark, gas in Toledo could be had anywhere from $3.96 to $3.99 that same day. Crossing the border back into Michigan, gas immediately rose to $4.11-$4.19, depending on what city you were in. I actually managed to get the last of the $4.11 gas at one station in East Tawas before they raised the price to $4.16. One of the reasons for the lower price of gasoline in Ohio is the state taxes. But, that doesn't explain the total reason. For instance, looking to the API.org site - a trade association site representing the oil and natural gas industry - it listed the average taxes on a gallon of gasoline across the country as of July 1. Michigan's average taxes amounted to 60.7 cents, while Ohio's was 46.4 cents, a difference of 14.3 cents.
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It’s good to get out of the office
Thu, June 26, 2008 @ 12:22PM
There I was, 10:30 in the morning, comfortably ensconced in a porch chair, gazing out at picturesque Grand Lake from the 216-foot long back deck of the Fireside Inn — and all the while getting paid. Course I had my reporter’s notebook in hand and my camera at my side, and I was listening to resort owner Lori VanSchoten tell me what makes her visitors return to the Fireside Inn year after year after year. As if by just sitting there and breathing in the unique atmosphere, I couldn’t feel and see the superb draw of a quintessential Northern Michigan fixture that is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2008. But I was there for an interview and some photos for a feature on the inn that will run in The Alpena News in mid-July, and so VanSchoten played the perfect host, sharing scads of pertinent details while I took notes — and gazed at the view. Yes, I do like my job.
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