Budget battle is over, for now
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…
Summer is here, and there is no excuse for kids to be bored
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…
A life lived long and well: Helen Wasacz, August 19, 1919 — June 23, 2012
(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…
Hamtramck’s most notable get their due in new book
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…
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…
