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Cheboygan County Habitat for Humanity receives $1,000 grant
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CHEBOYGAN Cheboygan County Habitat for Humanity recently received a little extra help for its home repair program through a $1,000 grant from the First Federal of Northern Michigan Legacy Foundation.
Cheboygan County Habitat for Humanity was one of the legacy foundation s first quarter grant recipients, with the $1,000 to be used to help fund its home repair program that serves low income Cheboygan County homeowners.
First Federal of Northern Michigan Legacy Foundation Board of Directors Chairman Mike Mahler recently presented Cheboygan County Habitat for Humanity Executive Director Mandy Martin with the grant funding of $1,000. First Federal of Northern Michigan Legacy Foundation is a charitable organization dedicated to serving community activities and nonprofit organizations in the Greater Alanson, Cheboygan, Gaylord, Lewiston, Oscoda, Mio, and Alpena areas.
Alpena
The Alpena Municipal Council approved a contract with Donald Gilmet of Gilmet Construction Services. It also approved a budget amendment request to increase the capital vehicles account for the installation of specialized equipment for a police patrol vehicle in the amount of $11,751.
It also approved a pair of events for this year. Art on the Bay is to be held July 14-18 and the 150th Anniversary Celebration Block Party to be held at St.
Paul Lutheran Church on June 20.
Council went into closed session, but no action was taken when the open session resumed.
Alpena Township
The Alpena Township Board of Trustees received an economic development report from Mike Mahler, economic development director for Target Alpena. He informed the board on current and upcoming projects in the community.
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A pile of rubble was all that was left standing of the former Alpena Catholic Central High School building on Tuesday afternoon. Demolition on the building began last week in preparation for a single story office building to be constructed and leased to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The former high school’s gymnasium will become the new home for the Alpena Boys and Girls Club.
ALPENA The COVID-19 pandemic was expected to throw a monkey wrench in local development.
Thus far however, it has had little impact on projects planned before the pandemic and developers are considering future projects in the area.
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News Photo by Julie Riddle
In March, inside a home he is building in Alpena, builder Kyle Leavesley discusses the challenges of finding housing in Northeast Michigan.
ALPENA For Danielle Whitcomb, moving to Alpena in July meant settling for a second-choice school and giving up the family dog, because she had to jockey with a horde of other anxious home-shoppers for a too-small supply of available homes.
“It was quite a hassle to get up here,” Whitcomb said. “It would have been sooner, had I found a house.”
Potential homebuyers and renters in Northeast Michigan feel the pinch of a nationwide housing shortage spurred by a shifting economy and kicked into high gear by the COVID-19 pandemic.