Alpena

Verizon Expands 4G LTE Network Across Michigan

Verizon Wireless Expanded Its 4G LTE network in four more Michigan counties.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/05/14

Workers assembling a cellulosic ethanol plant in Alpena. Matt Roush photo.

Tech Tour Day Four: Amazing Alpena

Alpena, hotbed of technology. Who knew? No, seriously. This gritty industrial town — sometimes literally gritty, home to a huge Lafarge Corp. cement plant and a huge wood processing plant that turns wood chips into wood panels — has a ton of cool technology-based economic development going on.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/04/29

Matt poses with the Spring Tech Tour Mobile, the 2013 Ram 1500 (WWJ Photo)

Tech Tour Time Is Here Again

Well, it’s finally arrived. The WWJ Technology Report will be taking its 10th annual Tech Tour on the Michigan road beginning tonight.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/04/24

Verizon Wireless Expands 4G LTE To Alpena

Verizon Wireless is continuing to expand its 4G LTE network, introducing coverage in four new markets across the country as of Thursday, including the Alpena area in northeast Lower Michigan.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/02/21

Alpena Cattle Test Positive For Bovine TB

Officials say a medium-sized dairy herd in Michigan’s northeastern Lower Peninsula has tested positive for bovine tuberculosis.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/06/22

Lawsuit Filed In Fatal September Helicopter Crash

The estate and family of a Sterling Heights man killed in a northern lower Michigan helicopter crash in September has filed a lawsuit claiming negligence contributed to the accident.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/03/28

Michigan Announces Newest State Park Near Alpena

Recreation officials say 4,200 acres of land along the shores of Lake Huron have become Michigan’s newest state park.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/02/11

Helicopter Crashes In Northern Michigan, Killing 2

Michigan State Police say a helicopter has crashed in the northern Lower Peninsula, killing both people aboard.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2011/09/26

Merit Names Fiber Optic Vendors For Stimulus Broadband

Ann Arbor-based Merit Network Inc. Monday announced the selection of seven Michigan-based contractors that will perform outside plant construction for Merit’s Round 1 REACH-3MC broadband stimulus project. As part of the project, Merit will build […]

WWJ Newsradio 950–2011/06/27

James Delgado teaches Cody Frost and Tiesha Anderson, students from Arthur Hill High School, about side scan technology as they prepare to hunt for a lost shipwreck in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary as part of Sony and Intel’s Project Shiphunt.

Saginaw Students Search For Shipwrecks With High Tech Tools

Five students from Saginaw Arthur Hill High School have spent the last week searching for shipwrecks in and around Lake Huron’s Thunder Bay, part of a program sponsored by Sony, Intel and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2011/05/26

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