New laundromat offers rock-bottom prices
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…
Crime Log …6/29/12
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…
Resistance to city budget is baffling and undermines recovery
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…
Bangladeshi Festival attracts largest crowd yet
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…
Time is running out for police contracts
It may be the best deal Hamtramck police officers, and their brass, can get. But the new contracts passed Monday night by the city council for the police department’s two…
Crime Log … 6/22/12
By Alan Madeleine This week, Crime Log is a selection of items that we have deemed the most interesting, relevant or newsworthy from the Hamtramck Police Department’s Intelligence Reports, as…
Police now have a choice to make
By Charles Sercombe City officials took a major step forward in cutting costs this week. Now it’s up to the two police unions to decide whether to agree to the…
Something is growing on the city’s southend
“Green acres is the place for me. Farm livin’ is the life for me. Land spreadin’ out so far and wide Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.” Theme to…
City officials still unwilling to pass a new budget
By Charles Sercombe Perhaps, as the saying goes, third time’s the charm. (Editor’s note: It wasn’t. The city council scheduled another special meeting for Monday, June 18 to discuss the…
For the first time in years, HHS baseball team come home champs
By Alan Madeleine Last week, Hamtramck High’s boys’ varsity baseball team won their first district championship since … well, since anybody can seem to remember. And the remembering seems to…
