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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 Mayor Pro Tempore Cindy Johnson and by Councilwoman Amber Hess. Johnson and Hess said they intend to se...
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 personal property for years 2016-2019. That total includes interest and penalty fees. They owe another...
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 asbestos abatement will be completed in the boiler rooms of the schools. Total Environment is the lowe...