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cnelson@thealpenanews.com News Photo by Crystal Nelson Dean Transportation bus driver Randy Potts on April 5 hits the tire on a bus before he heads out to pick up Alpena-Montmorency-Alcona Educational Service District students. Potts listens for a specific sound to tell if a tire is low. ALPENA — Schools in Northeast Michigan face many challenges maintaining bus fleets and scheduling new bus purchases. Many local school districts have older buses that often travel hundreds of thousands of mi...

May 07, 2019 Modern instrument clusters, such as this one illuminated during the ignition sequence in a 2019 Freightliner Cascadia, warn of problems with the engine, brakes, emissions systems and other components. Advancements in engine and emissions technology over the last decade have complicated the challenge of staying on top of dashboard warning lights. Owners of trucks newer than the 2007 model year have been subject to potential diesel particulate filter problems. Other issues came with ...

Restaurants opening in Austin and Central Texas in 2021 Austin 360 After the worst year for restaurants and their workers in memory, I’m happy to put 2020 in our rearview mirror and start thinking about what 2021 might look like.  With good and exciting news in short supply, it’s nice to think about what the new year will bring with it.  This list of forthcoming restaurants won’t be as robust as in years past, because most restaurant owners will probably spend most of their energy on th...

Trumps comments could be adding roughly ten cents to gas prices. another contributing factor for higher gas prices, the 2016 production cuts. when oil prices sank below $30 a gallon, opec members and russia decided to slash oil production to 32.5 million barrel as day. then there is the epa which required stricter emissions standards during the summer than during the winter since the early 1990s typically costing refiners several cents more than normal to refine crude to gasoline essentially rai...

Him. >> well never know what oswald was going to say. was he just a lone nutcase? >> a trial moois have answered questions of conspiracy but with oswald dead investigators focused on ruby. how was he able to get that close to the most wanted man in the world? >> because all the cops in dallas liked him because he gave them free stuff including hookers. >> the actions by ruby in treating oswald were not spontaneous and that he probably had assistance. >> when andy purdy served on the commission h...

Left a lot sooner. he is, after all, 84 years old. but again, a stunning development. prosecutors had not targeted paterno in the criminal part of this investigation, but there were many people who felt that he was just too close to it. that he should have been more aware of what was going on. that he shouldve intervened somehow, and that, again, all of this was so close to him because jerry sandusky, the figure at the center of this was paternos long time aide. several decades on the sideline w...