City attorney’s emails play a part in federal lawsuit
By Charles Sercombe Did Hamtramck City Attorney James Allen commit a career-ender? That may be the case, according to city hall sources in response to a federal lawsuit filed…
Get your walking shoes on, Neighborhood Arts Festival is this weekend
Update: Go here to see a map of who is participating and where they are located: http://www.hamtramckneighborhoodartsfestival.com/?fbclid=IwAR25rOO2UXXBvuZkH6jtyQDmRg6D05j42FmcJAA3cRrIYxjOfSQrrUl-BEc By Alan Madlane The arts is upon us once again. The Hamtramck Arts…
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…
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…
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…
Former cop sentenced to three years
By Charles Sercombe A former Hamtramck police officer, charged with assaulting two people he arrested back in 2014, will be going to federal prison. Ryan McInerney, 45, of Grosse Ile…
