Alger News

Marquette Area Public Schools Superintendent, Deborah Veiht will be the new superintendent of the Marquette Alger Regional Educational Service Agency.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Friday militants who attacked the United States and its citizens will hunted down, in the first comments by a senior U.S. official on a hostage attack by Islamist militants in Algeria.

ALGER -- It has been several months since 16-year-old Whitney Kropp stood tall on the football field and faced a packed stadium during the Ogemaw Heights High School homecoming coronation.

She was born on November 13, 1915, the daughter of Jean and Russell Alger Hipp. Dorothy was raised on the family farm on Hipp road, attending the Bruce Center School on Hipp road where her great grandfather, J.W. Hipp, in 1890 had been the director.