By Charles Sercombe Libya may be getting all the media attention lately because of U.S. attacks on the government, but there is another Arab country also undergoing a revolt. And the Yemeni community in Hamtramck and the metro area want the world to know that people in their homeland are fighting for freedom. On Saturday, [...]
By Charles Sercombe Thinking about fixing your gas stove any time soon? Unless you really know what you are doing, you might want to hire out that work. Hamtramck fire investigators say it’s likely that the reason a house on Norwalk St. blew up Saturday afternoon is because of a gas leak. Fire Chief Steve [...]
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck’s financial picture just improved a whole lot. City officials signed off on an agreement with Detroit to resolve a dispute over how much tax revenue should be shared from the GM Poletown plant. The dispute arose two years ago. Detroit officials abruptly stopped making payments to Hamtramck, which severely threatened the [...]
By Ian Perrotta What’s more nerve-wracking than playing a football game in front of 111 million people on live television? According to Super Bowl XLV champion Frank Zombo, the answer is reading a book to a class full of third-graders. Zombo, a linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, was at Dickinson East Elementary School on [...]
By Charles Sercombe While other neighboring communities hemorrhaged people in the last 10 years, Hamtramck’s population remained fairly stable. According to the Census Bureau, Hamtramck’s 2010 population head count revealed a loss of a little over 500 people since the last Census count in 2000. Compared to Detroit, which lost 25 percent of its residents, [...]
By Charles Sercombe What is our City Council up to these days? We have the scoop and the highlights – as well as the lowlights – of the latest council meeting. The City Council met on March 22, and all but Councilmember Kazi Miah were in attendance. The meeting ran over two-and-a-half hours, which also [...]
By Charles Sercombe You may have noticed some new developments in town. What used to be the John J. Skupny Funeral Home on Conant is now being converted into a restaurant called “Kabob House and Banquet.” The new owner of the building also knocked down the parking structure next-door. It’s not known when the restaurant [...]
Hamtramck once again proved this week that when we work together, great things can happen. Case in point: On Tuesday, the City Council put their signature on an agreement worked out with Detroit officials over a stubborn dispute regarding how much tax revenue Detroit is supposed to share with Hamtramck from the GM Poletown plant. [...]
By Charles Sercombe The housing market may be in the toilet, but you wouldn’t know it by looking around Hamtramck. How’s that? The city is undergoing a massive housing development project that will eventually fill up almost every empty lot as well as refurbish a number of existing houses. For the past few months, the [...]
By Ian Perrotta If things go right for Hamtramck’s Weed and Seed program, area gangs will have a lot more to worry about than who’s wearing what color. The community advocacy organization just completed an application for a three-year anti-gang grant. Funded by the Department of Justice, the $700,000 grant would begin in 2012 if [...]
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