Search for new CM is on hold
By Charles Sercombe The search for a permanent city manager is over, and the winning candidate is: No one. The mayor and city councilmembers rejected hiring any of the…
DTE promises to come back in spring and replace sidewalks
By Charles Sercombe If you haven’t noticed, this city is all torn up. DTE Energy has been ripping up sidewalks throughout town since last summer to upgrade its gas…
City forced to backpedal on scope of bike lane project
By Ian Perrotta Will Hamtramck be known as the city of fixed-gears and beer? No cars and PBR? After last week’s city council meeting that just might be the case.…
Updated city budget includes a $2.7 million deficit
By Charles Sercombe City officials took the first step toward figuring out how to balance the city’s budget. But it didn’t come easy. Acting City Manager Kyle…
Goodfellows start their annual food drive for the needy
By Charles Sercombe The paper you are holding today is extra special. Special in the sense that, if you purchased it from a Hamtramck firefighter standing in…
City manager interviews to begin
By Charles Sercombe The search for a permanent city manager marches on. The deadline for applications was Nov. 16, and the city council narrowed the field of 16 candidates…
Police warn parents about attempted child abduction
By Charles Sercombe The mother of a 12-year-old boy who said two men tried to abduct him is “shaken up” but doing well. “He had a hard time sleeping but…
In Hamtramck, houses are more valuable when ‘deconstructed’
By Ian Perrotta How is a house like a cow? Just ask a deconstructionist. Recently, five houses on Nagel Street that were slated for demolition were spared the wrecking…
City officials tinker with budget deficit elimination plan
By Charles Sercombe For the third time, city officials were presented with a plan to cut the city’s budget deficit. The council already agreed to a deficit elimination plan…
Hamtramck voters do a replay of the 2008 election
By Charles Sercombe Just like in the 2008 presidential election, Hamtramck voters came out in droves last Tuesday. And also just like in the ’08 election they gave their…
