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Alpena News editorial
Last week, News staff writer Crystal Nelson introduced us to one current and one former student of Alternative Choices for Educational Success Academy, Alpena Public Schools’ setting for students who struggled to succeed at Alpena High School.
Both students worried about the district’s proposal to close the ACES building and move those programs into a sequestered area of the traditional high school.
They worried about the loss of identity and pride at ACES as its own entity, about the ability of school officials to truly, fully separate ACES students from the rest and the possibility of trouble therein, and about the lack of some of the flexibility ACES offers, which they said offers kids a chance to fully succeed in high school.
cnelson@thealpenanews.com
News Photo by Crystal Nelson
Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan Executive Director Chris Witulski inspects a 15th Century Savonarola chair at the museum in April.
ALPENA The Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan houses thousands of artifacts, but not all of them end up in exhibits where visitors can see them.
Of the 38,000 artifacts owned by the museum, only a fraction make it into the museum’s exhibits. Artifacts that aren’t included in an exhibit are housed in six different artifact storage rooms in the museum’s basement, with specific rooms designated for furniture, textiles, art, and the museum’s archive.
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Of the many, many lessons the coronavirus pandemic has taught us, we hope one of the more lasting is how important students’ home lives are to their academic