ALPENA Alpena City Manager Rachel Smolinski received a raise and other upgrades to her contract following an Alpena Municipal Council vote on Monday. Aft
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From left to right, Alpena Agency’s Pete Wilson, left, Tanner Kostelic, Claire Kostelic, and Steve Wilson pose for a photo at the Alpena insurance office.
ALPENA Insurance firm Alpena Agency was founded by Frank Bailey in 1930, during the Great Depression.
Since then, the family business has been handed down from generation to generation.
Today, the next generation is on the doorstep of taking over as Claire Kostelic and her husband, Tanner, prepare for their turn leading.
In 1955, Bailey turned the firm over to his son-in-law, Dick Wilson, who in turn put his sons in charge Steve Wilson in 1989 and Pete Wilson in 1995.