By Ian Perrotta No, you’re not hallucinating. All you have to do is answer a few questions. This coming Wednesday (July 11), Skipper’s Hamtown Bar will be hosting its usual…
By Ian Perrotta Yemen is a country with a rich cultural history, and last Sunday (July 1) it was all on display. The first annual “Yemeni Cultural Day” was held…
By Charles Sercombe It took two attempts, but a majority of city councilmembers finally passed a new city budget Tuesday night. But for those watching the debate, some may have…
By Charles Sercombe Kids, got the summertime blues (already?) and nothing to do? Well, the summer is just starting and there is plenty to do in Hamtramck. And the best…
(Editor’s note: Helen Wasacz was widely known in the Polish community here in the metro area. She died on June 23, at the age of 92. Her son, Walter, has…
By Alan Madeleine Greg Kowalski loves Hamtramck. And it’s paying off in making him a repeat published author. You see, Kowalski, editor for the Birmingham Eccentric by day, is a…
By Charles Sercombe You heard it here first. It costs only 75 cents to wash a load of clothes at the newly-opened City Coin Laundry, located on the city’s southend…
By Alan Madeleine This week, Crime Log is once again a compilation of some of the more newsworthy events taken from the Hamtramck Police Department’s Intelligence Reports, as they have…
For some reason, certain city councilmembers had a problem adopting this year’s city budget. Budgets are never easy, but this time around there was more than the usual confusion. For…
By Ian Perrotta If you went to last weekend’s Bangladeshi Festival, you definitely weren’t alone — after four years of closing down Conant for the weekend, the event’s turnout was…