By Charles Sercombe Wednesday’s citywide flooding may have had a few people wondering if someone nearby was building an ark. Turns out that the flood quickly receded, but in its wake it had left a large and nasty cleanup for many households. Two inches of rain fell in less than hour, overwhelming the city’s sewer [...]
By Charles Sercombe Like to keep tabs on police runs? Kiss that pastime goodbye, at least here in Hamtramck. We don’t know how many folks in town like to tune into their police scanner, but we know there are quite a few who are upset with the Police Department’s decision to upgrade to a digital [...]
By David Piestrzynski The Review Special Writer The Weed and Seed program has lost its funding. But these budget cuts haven’t caused the Hamtramck Community Initiative (HCI) to give up on Uncle Sam’s help just yet. Over the past few months, the HCI has applied for nearly $2 million in federal grants to keep the [...]
By Alan R. Madeleine Café 1923 was lit up this past Friday. Lit up with the incendiary words of youthful poetry performance, that is. Hamtramck High students, under the tutelage of Isaac Miller (a northern California transplant with some impressive credentials himself), waged verbal warfare for a shifting audience estimated at about 30 to 40. [...]
By Alan R. Madeleine Another long-familiar Hamtramck dining landmark has reopened. This time though, the name, menu and all are very different from the previous occupants. Coming fast on the heels of last week’s Clock Restaurant grand reopening, the former Under the Eagle space has morphed into Campau Coney Island. Looking considerably brighter inside, courtesy [...]
We’ve said it before, but we’ll repeat it again. The Hamtramck City Council did the right thing on Tuesday by officially raising the city’s property tax rate to its legal limit. The 2.2 mills will hardly be noticeable to most households, despite what some critics claim. For the average homeowner, the increase will translate into [...]
By Alan R. Madeleine Students at Dickinson East Elementary School have been getting quite a lesson on going green. But first, let’s get some background on what an extraordinary transformation that school has taken: Just about five years ago, on May 21, 2006, Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed into law House Bill No. 5554, which took [...]
By Charles Sercombe And then there were 13. That’s 13 candidates we’re talking about who will be on the August Primary ballot for three seats on City Council. Two candidates dropped out of the race last week, Don Kosin and Kathleen Bittner. Not much is known about Kosin, but Bittner’s withdrawal came as a surprise [...]
By Charles Sercombe In what could be called a twist of fate, Hamtramck is going to end its fiscal year with a $2 million budget surplus. But that surplus will be short-lived. It just so happened that with another month to go in the fiscal year, which ends June 30, Hamtramck just received $3.2 million [...]
By Alan R. Madeleine When Fallyn West, Head Coach of the Hamtramck High Lady Cosmos girls basketball team, first started searching for money to get her girls some T-shirts for warm-ups, it must’ve seemed like a half-court shot. Turns out that, with the help of the Hamtramck Firefighters Local 750, she was able to practically [...]
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