By Charles Sercombe The search for a new chief of police in Hamtramck didn’t take long. The job had been posted for only 10 days, with a deadline of Jan.…
By Charles Sercombe The Hamtramck Board of Education wants to do something about its poor attendance record. Last year, the board failed to meet at least once in three separate…
By Charles Sercombe Mayor Amer Ghalib says he is no stranger to death threats, but recently he received one that required the attention of the police department. In a…
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck’s financial picture has made a drastic turnaround in recent years, says Mayor Amer Ghalib. Recently, Mayor Amer Ghalib spoke at the inauguration ceremony of three…
By Charles Sercombe You can get a head start on voting in the Feb. 27 presidential primary election. For those who applied for an absentee ballot, they were mailed…
By Charles Sercombe Winter weather isn’t going to stop this year’s celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The Jan. 15 event had to be scrubbed because of the extreme…
By Charles Sercombe After a warmer than usual December, winter came howling in from the north last Friday. And it was freaky, on Friday afternoon, when this winter storm…
By Charles Sercombe In 2015, Hamtramck Police Chief Anne Moise made local history. She became Hamtramck’s first female chief of police. In fact, up until then, there had been few…
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck, apparently, has blazed a trail in how to deal with pride flags. Last summer, the city council and mayor backed a ban on allowing pride flags…
By Charles Sercombe The brutal arctic cold is to blame for the cancellation of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Pray Breakfast at Monday’s (Jan. 15) Hamtramck Public School’s…