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ALPENA — Community Research Services, a real estate analyzing firm, recommended to the Alpena Municipal Council on Monday that the city build at least 100 hou

ALPENA — Alpena is budgeting a deficit of more than $900,000 for its 2023-24 fiscal year that begins on July 1. Raises, higher pension payments, and inflati

News File Photo A man approaches City Hall in this March 2020 file photo. ALPENA — Alpenans who wish to run for a seat on the Alpena Municipal Council can begin the process now. Clerk/Treasurer Anna Soik said the deadline for people to file the appropriate paperwork to get their name on the ballot for the November election is July 20 at 4 p.m. Packets of information are available at the clerk’s office at City Hall. Two of the five council seats are up for grabs: those currently held by Mayo...

sschulwitz@thealpenanews.com ALPENA–The City of Alpena is taking action to recoup more than $800,000 in back taxes from a local manufacturer. At Monday’s Alpena Municipal Council meeting, council voted unanimously to have city attorney Bill Pfeifer serve the Alpena Prototype Biorefinery LLC, American Process Inc, and GranBio LLC a notice of seizure of personal property for unpaid personal property taxes. According to Clerk/Treasurer Anna Soik, there is $678,787 due in delinquent taxes on pe...

Feb 15, 2021 ∫ The Alpena Public Schools Board of Education’s Property Committee recommends the board award an asbestos abatement contract to Total Environmental for the district’s asbestos abatement projects in the amount of $198,200. The district will be doing asbestos abatement at Hinks, Besser, Ella White, Sanborn, and Wilson elementaries, the former Sunset Elementary School, and Central Office as part of the $33.9 million property tax voters approved in March. The majority of the as...

Alpena News editorial We were saddened to read Steve Schulwitz’ recent dispatch telling us youth voter registration and turnout were low in Northeast Michigan, despite a national push to get young people to the polls. In Alpena County, for example, 62% of voters ages 18 to 21 turned out last month, compared to 81% of voters 60 and older, Schulwitz reported. It was even worse in the city, where just 54% of young voters turned out on Nov. 3. That’s discouraging, for a number of reasons. ...