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sschulwitz@thealpenanews.com News Photo by Steve Schulwitz Panel Processing employee Dustin Thomas, left, and Senior Account Manager Tim Witucki discuss operations at the production plant on Wednesday. Panel Processing is celebrating its 50th anniversary today. Since it was founded in Alpena in 1971, the company has grown to include facilities in four states. ALPENA– For the last five decades, Panel Processing has been one of the premier wood product manufacturing companies in Alpena County. From its humble beginning in 1971, when it was founded by Robert Granum and a small group of local i...

The Alpena News ALPENA — Out of more than $51 million in government-backed loans given to hundreds of Northeast Michigan firms to help them survive the coronavirus, nearly 40% went to just eight businesses, a News analysis of recently released federal data shows. That would align with trends across the country that have drawn criticism that too many federal Paycheck Protection Program loans went to large businesses and not enough was done to help the small business Congress intended to help. However, The News has discovered issues with the data released recently by the federal Small Busine...