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Why you should celebrate fall (opens the original)
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Sad, funeral music accompanies the turning of colors in northern MIchigan when the nights get cooler, the leaves turn orange, and pumpkin spice everything fills the store shelves. Take a day to mourn the summer months -- wake up the next and embrace the opportunity for rest. Summer carries with it high expectations. Summer is so short in Michigan, I always feel like it is my earthly duty to make every summer novel and exciting. May arrives and I start planning, June I don't do much, July hits an
Matthews has murder charges dropped (opens the original)
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ALPENA -- Devin Matthews, 23, had a pair of second-degree murder charges and other felonies dropped on Tuesday in the 88th District court. Mathews was driving and was involved in a serious car accident in 2024 that claimed the life of two people. Judge Alan Curtis, 88th District Court judge, bound over Devin Matthews, 23, for two counts of Operating While Intoxicated (OWI) causing death and one count of OWI causing serious injury, charges relating to a fatal car crash which caused two deaths in
Public comment open for materials management plan (opens the original)
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ALPENA -- The Northeast Michigan Management Authority (NMMMA) and the Resource Recycling Systems (RRS) company presented to the Alpena County Commissioners on Sept. 22 regarding Northeast Michigan’s material management plan (MMP) which is now required by the state of Michigan for all counties. NMMMA currently provides recycling services for Alpena, Alpena County, Alcona County, Iosco County, Oscoda County, and Montmorency County. Elisa Seltzer, a RRS representative, explained that the state used
Get the tattoo, not a communicable disease (opens the original)
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ALPENA -- What was once a social taboo, collecting tattoos on one's body has become a modern day norm. New tattoo shops are coming to Northeast Michigan and artists and shop owners want to let the community know that hygiene and cleanliness are their number one Stella Johnson recently opened Pin Cushion Body Art on U.S. -23 South. She said that her number one priority is making people feel safe and comfortable. "Sterilization is the absolute most important thing," Johnson said. "It's not somethi
Gandulla says farewell to Alpena, headed to Lake Ontario (opens the original)
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ALPENA -- Stephanie Gandulla is saying farewell to the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary (TBNMS) and assuming the superintendent role at the new sanctuary along the shores of Lake Ontario, based in Oswego, New York. The Lake Ontario sanctuary is the third fresh water sanctuary in the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) system. TBNMS in Alpena was the first fresh water NOAA sanctuary established in 2000. The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary was established in
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