By Charles Sercombe For the past several weeks, roving gangs of teens have been running through the city’s streets and getting into fights. The menace has now spilled over to the general public, police say. Last Friday, police say a gang of teens were caught on camera beating up a young man near Hungry Howie’s. [...]
Here is a fantastic video by Producer/Director Jim Toscano. Check out more of his work at: http://toscanomedia.com/ And here is a link to Cafe 1923′s website:
…on Wednesday, March 24 at 5:00 in the lower level of the Hamtramck Community Center. The meeting will discuss parks in the city and how to incorporate them into the revised Master Plan.
By John Ulaj A special thank you I am pleased to announce the imminent publication of the Review’s special 2010 Hamtramck Residential and Business Phone Directory, which will be hand-delivered to every resident household and business alike by the end of next month. The last time a project like this was attempted was in 2006, [...]
You could say Hamtramck’s public school teachers are pretty smart. The teachers’ union took a major contract concession by agreeing to a less expensive health insurance coverage plan. The district will now save $453,000 a year with this agreement. That savings will make a big dent in the district’s projected $1.7 million deficit and prevent [...]
By Terry Parris Jr. Special to The Review It’s pitch-black, and we are walking up a creaking, twisting, wooden staircase of the tallest structure on the corner of Belmont and Joseph Campau. The owner of the building has the flashlight, and he’s a flight of stairs ahead. Whatever light is beaming from the thing doesn’t [...]
By Walter Wasacz After receiving a gracious welcome to the pages of The Review last week by Editor Charles Sercombe (in a note attached to my report on the fabulous Blowout weekend)) and Publisher John Ulaj (via a very kind late night phone call), the least I could do was try to prove my worth [...]
By Charles Sercombe Students in Hamtramck’s public schools are hitting the books hard during this month. But not necessarily for their classes. Instead, students are being encouraged to turn off the television and open a book to read for fun, or for whatever reason. The important point is to get the kids to learn to [...]
By Charles Sercombe Does the U.S. Census Bureau even know Hamtramck is a city? That’s what some Hamtramck households might think when they read the address on the recently mailed Census survey forms. The addresses say Detroit instead of Hamtramck, and that has a number of city officials and residents shocked and angry. Turns out, [...]
By Ian Perrotta Review Staffwriter Thanks to green technology, the city’s future prospects are getting rosier. For the past year, entrepreneur Annette Wright and business partner Erwin Washington have been working to bring a solar panel manufacturing company to Hamtramck. Currently in the negotiating and planning phase with the city, once they find a suitable [...]
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