I so enjoy a good book, or movie for that matter. Most are mirrors of real everyday life. Some of my favorite genres are ‘Who Done its’ when the detective uses intuition and experience deducing human atrocities; but mostly the intricate use of local, or countrywide/worldwide facilities such ...

Dear Editor, I recently read a letter from a Trump supporter who had a few things confused. Firstly, she said Americans had been “playing the fool” by the Associated Press. She was confused about the meaning of the idiom she used. “Playing the fool” is not something that is done to a ...

Dear Editor, On behalf of the Kiwanis Club of Alpena, we would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the Alpena community for their incredible generosity and support of our recent used book sale. Thanks to the overwhelming number of book donations from local residents and the ...

Dear Editor, We are very fortunate to have a community newspaper with such a variety of features and an editorial page that devotes equal space to diverse viewpoints of a given issue. I only wonder that, if staff stories include a reporter’s byline and letters to the editor “must be ...

Irony — incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs. Donald J. Trump — a self-confessed liar and cheat and convicted federal felon. A walking and talking con-man and President of the United States of America. Elected by an electoral and low-income people (people ...

I was disheartened to read the recent article, “Programs at Head Start negligent, mismanaged,” in The Alpena News. While the GAO report raises serious concerns about interim-managed Head Start programs, it is unfair and misleading to paint all Head Start programs with the same broad brush ...