In 2005, First Federal of Northern Michigan (FFNM) moved from a Savings and Loan institution with partial public ownership to a fully public-owned publicly trad
Harbour House, the only women's shelter in Lethbridge, has 24 beds it can use for women and children. Staff say finding housing for women leaving the shelter is causing a backup.
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Alpena County Emergency Services Coordinator Mark Hall walks through the Emergency Operations Center at the Alpena County Central Dispatch building in March.
ALPENA There were too many people to list, they said.
The people who led Alpena County’s charge in the war against the coronavirus spoke fervently, stories tumbling and blending as they described the systematic whirlwind that was the past 12 months.
Name after name slipped from their lips, list upon list of local residents who played a role in silently, selflessly, keeping Apena safe when the community was faced with a crisis unlike anything any of them had ever seen.
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Alpena County Treasurer’s office employee Cindy Cebula pulls a tax-record book from a shelf while at work Friday. The treasurer’s office will have more money to keep track of, as the county was awarded about $5.5 million from the recently passed stimulus package.
ALPENA–Counties, townships, and cities are in line to get a financial boost, the likes of which they have never seen before.
In the coming weeks, local governments will begin to receive portions of the $65 billion allocated to local governments in Michigan from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that passed through Congress last week and was signed by President Joe Biden Thursday.