By Charles Sercombe Some city councilmembers got to experience what it’s like to be a target during Tuesday’s meeting. Several police officers and their supporters spoke out against a proposal by Councilmember Tom Jankowski to require officers to pay for half the cost of new bullet proof vests. The cost for the officers would come [...]
By Ian Perrotta The Labor Day Festival wasn’t the only party in town during Labor Day weekend. The community’s Hindu population also took it to the streets of Hamtramck on the Saturday of that weekend with a parade to celebrate the birth of their god Sri Krishna. The celebration – Suvo Janmastari, a birthday ceremony [...]
By Ian Perrotta Despite a national trend that has seen violent crime decline over the past three years, in Hamtramck it was on the rise in 2009. But fortunately, its rate of growth was slower than in years before. In 2009, Hamtramck reported 378 instances of violent crime, which is comprised of four types of [...]
By Charles Sercombe City Manager Bill Cooper said he would welcome the organizers of this year’s Hamtramck Labor Day Festival to work their magic again next year. “Hell yes I’d bring them back,” said Cooper on Monday, the first day back on the job after taking a vacation last week. Festival organizers Kathleen Bittner and [...]
By Charles Sercombe The school year is now entering its third week but there is still a waiting game to finish up the city’s sidewalk repairs. The sidewalk at the southwest corner of Caniff and Gallagher – one of the most heavily traveled corners for students – is still not repaired. There is an exposed [...]
By Walter Wasacz Hamtramck was off the hook on Labor Day weekend. The festival and parade — as you’ve no doubt already seen on the front page of the last week’s Review, if you weren’t one of thousands of people in attendance — were filled with live energy and big fun. What I’d like to [...]
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck’s public school district has a snappy recruitment slogan these days: “Start here, Stay here, Succeed here.” It’s been in effect for the past couple of years and so far it’s helped increase the number of new students enrolling into the district. And if there was ever a family that has lived [...]
The issue of seeking concessions from the unions representing police officers is a legitimate one. Hamtramck’s two police officers’ unions have refused to concede so much as a nickel to help with Hamtramck projected $3.3 million deficit, which could lead to a state takeover. But to draw a line in the sand with threatening the [...]
By Ian Perrotta Well, it didn’t take long for another festival to crop up. On Oct. 16 and 17, Hamtramck will host its first-ever Oktoberfest. The idea for the event came from Kathleen Bittner and Rachel Karpinski Srodek, who helped organize this year’s incredibly successful Labor Day Festival. Bittner said that after working on the [...]
By Ian Perrotta If you weren’t one of the over 200,000 people that attended last weekend’s Labor Day Festival, you can probably read about it at the library in the years to come – it was definitely one for the books. Despite nearly being canceled earlier this year, the 2010 festival was by all measures [...]
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