Business owners protest Algoma police tactics

The Pizza Bowl in Algoma was one of seven businesses that had an employee cited for serving underage patrons during a special Algoma police operation Sept. 18, which happened to be the same weekend as the Wet Whistle Wine Festival.

Though Pizza Bowl owner Jim Anderson doesn’t think it was right for the Algoma Police Department to do an underage drinking sting during one of the busiest nights in the city, it’s not the operation that has him up in arms.

“The sting is not the concern,” Anderson said. “The concern is the overall way they patrol. They constantly drive around the bars; they circle the parking lots and stop anyone with a headlight out. The sting was the final straw. They’re putting us out of business.”