By Ian Perrotta If only education was celebrated every day like it was last Friday (June 11) night. After 12 years of school – that’s 2,160 school days – the Hamtramck High class of 2010 held its graduation ceremony at Keyworth Stadium before a packed crowd which filled the stands. The warm and sunny weather [...]
By Charles Sercombe When Hamtramck voters first approved of the school district’s recreation tax, a lot of promises were made. A massive makeover of Veterans Memorial Park. New tennis courts. Programs galore. Vacant city lots turned into “tot lots.” And the topper: establish an endowment fund that would forever keep recreation going without having to [...]
By Charles Sercombe Remember the childhood chant: “You scream, I scream, We all scream for ice cream”? Well, an ice cream truck driver got a not-so-innocent modern day version of that call. You can definitely file this one under weird crime news. Two women and a man are being charged with armed robbery of an [...]
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck’s annual Labor Day weekend festival looks like a go this year. The fate of this year’s festival had been up in the air for the past few months and until this week it looked like it would actually be canceled. The city was forced to lay off its special events coordinator, [...]
(Editor-at-Large Walter Wasacz writes a weekly column on life in Hamtramck.) By Walter Wasacz Detroit is buzzing with ideas, brimming with activity. When I say Detroit, I include Hamtramck in the developing big picture. When I say ideas and activities I mean research, panel discussions, art and design projects; alternative energy initiatives, transportation and information [...]
Maybe last week we rushed too quickly to say that this year’s Hamtramck Labor Day Festival should be canceled since the city had to lay off its special events coordinator. While we still think it pays to have a professional in charge of running a festival of this size, something’s come up to change our [...]
On behalf of People’s Community Services, I would like to express our support for the development of a Hamtramck Historical Museum. Hamtramck is a small city but it is a city with a wonderful heritage. This is a heritage, which must be preserved and passed on to our children. Study after study shows that American [...]
Thank you very much for your story on the history of the grandstands at Veterans Park. Baseball historian Gary Gillette brought up very significant incentives in the potential preservation of the grandstands such as Federal and State Historic Tax Credits, as well as potential grants. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named the Negro League [...]
By Mike Murphy Special to The Review Though not counting chickens before they hatch, the Hamtramck Historical Commission (HHC) is hopeful that a museum site it’s been seeking for a dozen years has finally been found. The proposed site is the Polish Legion of American Veterans’ Hall Post 1 at 3105 Holbrook Ave., which has [...]
By Ian Perrotta It looks like the initiative to restore the grandstands at Veterans Park is beginning to pick up some steam. Three weeks ago, The Review reported that members of the community were concerned that the grandstands may be torn down as a result of the city’s new Master Plan and had begun an [...]
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