This Saturday: Lemonade for a worthy cause
By Charles Sercombe Summer may be over, but it’s still the season for an old-fashioned neighborhood lemonade stand. This Saturday, Oct. 2, a group of kids will be manning their…
Next up: should the city install more speed humps?
By Charles Sercombe In the past year, Hamtramck has joined thousands of other communities nationwide in cracking down on speeders in residential neighborhoods. How? Speed humps (not speed bumps).…
Cracking down on school threats
By Alan Madlane The Wayne County Prosecutor wants you to have a talk with your child. Before her office has to. In a recent letter to the public, the prosecutor’s…
Deal is sealed to save the Yemeni mural from obstruction
By Alan Madlane The Yemeni mural shall live on. Local social action group OneHamtramck recently issued a press release touting the end of a three-year negotiation to save the mural…
Hamtramck is steadily making needed improvements
It’s gratifying to see progress play out in Hamtramck. For the past couple of years, we have seen new sewer lines installed in the southend, the repaving of Holbrook and…
Yemeni community rails against the killing of a fellow immigrant
By Charles Sercombe Last Thursday evening, local Yemeni-Americans held a rally in Zussman Park to protest the death of a California man visiting his homeland. According to various media reports,…
Repaving begins on Conant
By Charles Sercombe And now it’s Conant’s turn to be repaved. Those orange road construction barrels aren’t going away any time soon in Hamtramck. Now that the Caniff repaving project…
Toast of the Town … Check out the newly revamped Polonia Restaurant
By Alan Madlane Well, fellow foodies, let’s explore the newly reopened Polonia, shall we? Full disclosure: The owner of this newspaper, John Ulaj, also owns Polonia now. Fuller disclosure:…
City council missed an opportunity to fight blight
Recently, the city council had a chance to help ensure the prevention of housing blight. It was just one tool that the city could use, but the council decided to…
Plenty of other improvement projects are happening in town
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck never rests. Just as the Caniff Ave. reconstruction project was getting buttoned up, two other city projects got underway. After a big press conference several…
