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ALPENA New principals will greet students at Ella White Elementary School, Lincoln Elementary School, and Thunder Bay Junior High School when school begins in August.
Courtney Fredlund, who is currently principal at Ella White, has been named principal at Lincoln Elementary School. Fredlund will replace Principal Hans Stevens who is retiring after 31 years with Alpena Public Schools.
Alpena High School Principal Tom Berriman will relocate to Ella White Elementary School and AHS Assistant Principal Katie Lee has been named principal of Thunder Bay Junior High School. Lee will replace Principal Steve Genschaw who is retiring after 30 years with the district.
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Alpena resident Katy Samp, pictured right, on Tuesday picks up her daughters Kylie Fitzwater, middle, and Leah Fitzwater, left, from Lincoln Elementary School.
ALPENA In-person learning resumed for Alpena Public Schools students on Monday, after they spent the last two weeks learning remotely from their homes.
“It feels really good, we’re all happy,” Alpena resident Katy Samp said as she picked her daughters up from school on Tuesday.
Samp is able to work from home while her daughters, third grader Kylie Fitzwater and first grader Leah Fitzwater attended school remotely. Samp said the girls missed their friends and were happy to be back in school.
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Two Alpena High School students leave the school in this Oct. 2020 News file photo.
ALPENA Alpena Public Schools administrators will be strictly enforcing coronavirus safety procedures when in-person learning resumes on Monday.
District administrators said in a press release on Friday those safety procedures will include the proper wearing of masks, social distancing, and proper hand hygiene. It also includes students remaining at home when symptomatic, having a positive COVID-19 test result, or have recently been in close contact with a positive individual.
The district will also be offering rapid testing from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot of Thunder Bay Junior High School. The junior high is located at 3500 S. 3rd Ave.
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Justin Hinkley, recently named publisher and editor of The News, poses in front of the building in downtown Alpena on Thursday.
ALPENA Justin Hinkley, the current managing editor of The Alpena News, has been named publisher and editor of the newspaper.
He will assume the new positions on Feb. 12, upon the retirement of longtime publisher Bill Speer.
Hinkley promises to continue the time-honored traditions of The Alpena News of providing readers what they want and deserve, with high-quality reporting, storytelling, and service.
“For more than 122 years, The Alpena News has been the leader in news coverage and the most responsive and effective advertising medium for Northeast Michigan,” Hinkley said. “We will continue to focus on local news reporting and providing quality advertising, both in our printed newspaper and our digital website, TheAlpenaNews.com. We take very seriously our role in informing our readers a