ALPENA — Alpena County will have a balanced budget for the first time in many years to kick off the 2025 fiscal year, with fewer cuts than expected. Larger cuts could still loom for the 2026 fiscal year as the county is already projecting a large shortfall that year of at least ...
ALPENA — A proposed housing project in Alpena could put a major dent in the local housing crisis if it becomes a reality. On Monday, the Alpena Municipal Council voted to approve a property-sale agreement with developer Tommy Dault, Jr. which would sell him about 70 acres of the ...
ALPENA — Fourth-grade students have been learning their way around the kitchen, and participating in art projects at Art in the Loft as part of the Ready, Set, Create! program. On Wednesday, instructor Jess Krawczak taught fourth-grade students from Hinks Elementary School how to make a ...
Recent actions by law enforcement agencies in Northeast Michigan. This has been only lightly edited. MONTMORENCY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE News Release Nov. 18, 2024 Total: 121 Alarms: 0 Animal Control: 8 Traffic Arrests: 0 OWI Arrests: 1 Drug Arrests: 0 Warrant Arrests: ...
Michigan communities will soon benefit from the addition of 52 state troopers who graduated Thursday from the 147th Trooper Recruit School, according to a press release from the Michigan State Police. The 147th Trooper Recruit School began on July 7 at the MSP Training Academy in Lansing. ...
ALPENA — On Nov. 1, Alpena Township requested a joint working session with Alpena officials to work with an independent mediator to help settle the decade-old water and sewer litigation over rates. In a press release last week, the township said the bargaining session, which was proposed ...