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Snow covers the ground as lights cover the bridge on a wintry Wednesday night at the entrance to Island Park. The forecast calls for more snow, pointing to a white Christmas.
ALPENA Northeast Michigan will have a white Christmas this year, with the potential for a dusting of snow today and Christmas Day.
Faith Frederickson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gaylord, said it’s possible Alpena could see up to 1 inch of snow today or Friday. Snow depth in Alpena as of Tuesday was about 7 inches, according to the Weather Service.
ALPENA, Mich. The coming years are going to be constructive at Alpena County Regional Airport, to say the least.
With nearly $18 million in COVID relief money coming from the CARE act this past year, Airport Manager Steven Smigelski plans to make a lot of changes, all at no expense to Alpena county.
Aside from upgrading their current infrastructure, Smigelski wants to focus on revenue creators for the airport, which would result in less money being needed from the town. First, the plan is to construct 20 T-hangars that will be leased out monthly to owners of private aircrafts. Also with the hangars, Smigelski is planning on building a storage area for Alpena citizens to store boats, RV’s, and “summer toys.”
Special to The News
ALPENA Over the years, numerous movies and television shows have featured Michigan, either as a filming location or in the script.
Some of the more memorable movies: “Grand Torino,” with Clint Eastwood, filmed in Detroit (2008), “Somewhere in Time,” with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, on Mackinac Island (1980), Oscar-nominated “Anatomy of a Murder,” with James Stewart and George C. Scott in Marquette (1959), and “Dream Girls,” with Jennifer Hudson and Beyonce in Detroit (2006).
Some of the Michigan-themed television shows include crime and police series “Battle Creek” (2015) and “Detroit 1-8-7”. In addition, “The Fitzgeralds” was a 1978 family drama based in Flint. In the 2018 “Charmed” season was staged the fictitious Michigan city of Hiltowne.