By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck officials decided they won’t bother waiting for Detroit to write the city a check. At a special City Council meeting held on Tuesday, the council agreed to dip into an escrow account and withdraw $500,000 to cover next week’s employee payroll and pay some bills. Fortunately, city officials had earlier set [...]
There’s an idea being considered around town to have the Downtown Development Authority take over the Hamtramck Labor Day Festival. We’re not sure where the proposal is going, but at least on the surface it sounds like a good idea. After all, the DDA district includes all of Jos. Campau, and since the festival occurs [...]
By David Piestrzynski Special to The Review The mad rush of Paczki Day is not something bakeries in Hamtramck can easily duplicate. Sandy Bakic, of New Martha Washington Bakery, describes it as a “phenomenon.” “It’s special,” she said. “People from all over want to experience it.” And they do come from all over the world. [...]
By David Piestrzynski Special to The Review The University of Detroit-Mercy’s Immigration Law Clinic is coming to Hamtramck, free of charge. The clinic, run by students and professors from U-D Mercy’s Law School, offers legal advice on several immigration topics such as asylum, deportation and citizenship petitions. The free sessions will be held at City [...]
By Alan R. Madeleine Who he is: John Rostek, a teacher at Hamtramck High School who is holding a unique fundraiser for the school district. Let’s drop in on John and find out what all the fuss is about. Hello, John. Give me some particulars first, please, about you as a teacher. You teach at [...]
By Walter Wasacz A lot goes on in a typical week in Hamtramck. Expand the range of activity over a month, and the city reaches a point close to bursting at the seams with things happening. When we started this column it set out to preview and survey the city’s cultural life — brought into [...]
Church of Transfiguration 5838 Simon K, 892-1310 Holy Saturday: Blessing of Easter baskets: 11, 11:30 a.m., noon; Easter Vigil and Mass, 6 p.m. Easter Sunday: Resurrection Mass (in Polish), 8: a.m., Mass in English, 10:30 a.m. Holy Cross Polish National Catholic 2311 Pulaski, 365-5191 Good Friday: Liturgy of Passion, 9 a.m.; Adoration of the cross, [...]
By Alan R. Madeleine A man, a plan, a Caniff… Hamtramck? Not exactly a perfect palindrome for Hamtramck’s newly drafted Master Plan, but if it’s as perfect a plan as it looks like it could be, Hamtramck may benefit for as long as, well, Panama has from its famous ditch. The city’s Master Plan weighs [...]
By Charles Sercombe It’s no secret that the graduation rate for Hamtramck Public Schools is not great. Officially, it’s 62 percent. But that’s about to change for the better, and in very dramatic terms. Hamtramck High School is one of seven schools that will receive special help from United Way for Southeastern Michigan. The program [...]
By Charles Sercombe The City Council met on April 12, and all but Councilmember Kazi Miah were in attendance. The meeting ran for two hours, followed by a closed session. Following up from the last council meeting, a lengthy discussion from the public and council ensued over whether to authorize a payment of $5,500 to [...]
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