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Stateside, news broke Tuesday that President-Elect Joe Biden plans to nominate former two-term Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm as the next U.S. Secretary of Energy. We speak with Granholm’s former communications director about what the former governor would bring to the role if confirmed. Also, songs of isolation from a Detroit-based singer-songwriter. Plus, longtime Southeast Michigan news anchor Devin Scillian talks to us about his secret life as a bestselling children’s book author.
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Today on
Stateside, news broke Tuesday that President-Elect Joe Biden plans to nominate former two-term Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm as the next U.S. Secretary of Energy. We speak with Granholm’s former communications director about what the former governor would bring to the role if confirmed. Also, songs of isolation from a Detroit-based singer-songwriter. Plus, longtime Southeast Michigan news anchor Devin Scillian talks to us about his secret life as a bestselling children’s book author.
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Alpena Public Schools Executive Director of Human Resources Matt Poli, Human Resources Generalist Raelyn Wilber, and Human Resources Administrative Assistant Leslie Reynolds converse recently at the district’s Central Office.
ALPENA A growing number of Alpena Public Schools employees have either resigned or retired over the past five years.
Nine employees retired or resigned in 2015. This year, 68 had left as of Sept. 21, according to information The News obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Three letters of resignation approved by the school board in September indicated the employee resigned because of COVID-19 or the way the pandemic had impacted his or her life, according to documents The News obtained through FOIA, but most departures are because of cyclical retirement trends, district officials say.
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