Alpena News Archives

Associated Press - Tight budgets could require the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to close or turn over to outside management more of its 145 state forest campgrounds once the new fiscal year starts Oct.

ALPENA, Michigan - The mostly bird-free skies above Lake Huron's Thunder Bay during the recent Brown Trout Festival were a welcome sight to anglers who have spent years competing-often unfavorably-with double-crested cormorants for their catch.

ALPENA, Michigan - The mostly bird-free skies above Lake Huron's Thunder Bay during the recent Brown Trout Festival were a welcome sight to anglers who have spent years competing-often unfavorably-with double-crested cormorants for their catch.

A Michigan company has been awarded the construction contract for the new Montgomery County courthouse.

Congratulations to Mary Eagan of Alpena, Mich. She's the winner of Robert Ferrigno's contest for NRO readers, announced yesterday morning on our podcast .

The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors has awarded a construction contract for just over $19 million to build a new courthouse.

Expect temperatures to range from 59-70 under mostly cloudy skies. More showers and thunderstorms are forecasted for Monday.

Four candidates for Leelanau County's administrator job will be interviewed Tuesday.

The long, cool summer ... * From Fred Grasman of Okemos: 'A reflection on your column ... 'You have a point.

Local artist Michael Angelo will bring his mellow folk musings with scholarly lyrics to the Festival Market Music Series on Wednesday, August 5. This free, open to the public, lunch hour concert will run from 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Michael, a self-taught guitarist, singer and songwriter, has been performing professionally for the past twenty ...

Sometimes the federal government does something right. Back in 1978 when it deregulated airlines, it created a safeguard called Essential Air Service, or EAS.