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Mar 16, 2021
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Alcona Historical Society received a $2,972 Community Impact Grant for the Sprucing Up Bailey School project.
ALPENA The Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan recently awarded a new round of community grants covering a four-county area that includes Alcona, Alpena, Montmorency and Presque Isle counties.
The CFNEM Board of Trustees recently approved 46 new grants totaling $106,515. Of that amount, $84,289 was awarded in Community Impact Grants, and $22,226 was awarded in grants from the Northeast Michigan Youth Advisory Council.
New Community Impact Grants are:
¯ Alcona Community Schools $1,000 for the Alcona Wrestling program;
¯ Alcona Community Schools $3,000 for the Elementary School Outdoor Classroom;
¯ Alcona County Commission on Aging $1,500 for the Alcona County Commission on Aging Technology Loan Center;
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Alpena Councilwoman Amber Hess, left, chats recently with Alpena Fire Department Community Risk Reduction Officer Capt. Andy Marceau in the council chambers at City Hall.
ALPENA Those who serve on municipal councils say they strive to make difficult decisions that best serve everyone in their community.
Often, however, residents know little about the full scope of a council person’s jobs, how they do it, or the limits of local government power.
Three members of city councils around Northeast Michigan talked to The News about those issues:
BIG-PICTURE, WHAT IS YOUR JOB?
Mar 13, 2021
In a recent letter of the editor, I chastised your printing of the drivel by Jeffrey Greene. Obviously, you have not learned. Your article about marijuana licensing is my case in point (Feb. 1, 2021). You will rebut by stating that the article was an Associated Press reprint. This argument falls under the heading of urban legend: one of those stories that will be told and repeated around the campfires for generations to come, of how the Black community has been subjugated, treated differently and unfairly.
The interviewee touches the hot buttons of “other rich, or white males” that she had heard about. No names! A page taken out of the politician’s playbook: plausible, but unsubstantiated allegations.
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Alpena Civic Theatre and Rogers City Community Theatre are feeling “blessed” and “relieved” to be recipients of the Michigan Stages Survival Grants from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.
They were among the 101 venues in Michigan that shared a portion of the $3.423 million, with a maximum allocation amount of $40,000 per venue. Since both ACT and RCCT are all-volunteer run, smaller venues, they each received less than $10,000, but they are grateful for every penny.
Alpena Civic Theatre
“We were just tremendously happy,” said ACT Board President Bill Powell.
ACT Board Treasurer Jay Kettler said the money will be used to pay for the utilities and to upgrade the ventilation system.