Alpena city crews are fanning out around downtown Alpena, stringing streetlamps with holiday lights. At Culligan Plaza in the center of downtown, a lift truck raises crewmembers to wrap the official city Christmas tree in lights, ready to be illuminated at the conclusion of the holiday parade ...

So where does Alpena County go from here? That is the question residents have been contemplating since last week, with the defeat — by just 129 votes — of a proposed property tax hike. Perhaps adding salt to the wound of that bitter defeat was data reporter Steve Schulwitz discovered ...

Have you ever seen a totem pole? The most beautiful totems I have seen are mounted in Stanley Park in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, my home for five years. On those particular totems are a wolf, a beaver, a frog, and a thunderbird. Perhaps the most prominent and proud animal ...

Here are a couple stories about games at Chesaning. The first one was probably the wildest and most exciting football game I ever officiated. It was Montrose at Chesaning. They were neighboring schools, big rivals, and, traditionally, had strong teams. Besides that, being nextdoor ...

Forest ecosystems have three layers with specific roles in providing complexity and habitat for different organisms: the forest floor layer, the sapling layer, and the canopy layer. Let’s start at the top: the canopy layer. Looking up in a forest tells us much about the diversity of tree ...

Today, I will join about 527,000 other Michiganders dressed in camouflage and hunter orange as we head into the woods. For some, it will be their first hunt, and, for others, it will be their last. But, regardless, it will be an experience, sort of a Michigan right of passage. Growing ...