By Charles Sercombe This year’s Labor Day Festival will truly take a major work of labor to make it happen. In order for it to occur, the Downtown Development Authority, which organizes the event, has a self-imposed deadline to raise $50,000 to $75,000 by May 1, or the show is over. “If we make that [...]
By Alan Madeleine Well, it’s not all bad news for the poor and needy. In spite of what may seem, here and around the country, something like a war on those below the poverty line, there are always a few folks with kindness in their hearts – and still enough money in their wallets, or [...]
Update: March 19, 2001. We erroneously reported that the city council split on the vote to hire Erik Tungate as Hamtramck’s new Acting City Manager. The vote was actually 3-2, with Councilmembers Cathie Gordon and Anam Miah voting in opposition. Councilmember Robert Zwolak walked out of the council chambers just before the vote was taken [...]
What is our City Council up to these days? We have the highlights of the latest council meeting. By Charles Sercombe The city council met on March 13, and all councilmembers were in attendance. The meeting ran for about two hours. The meeting was pretty much dominated by the issue of filling the city manager’s [...]
By Charles Sercombe Last Friday, the city council held a special meeting to consider hiring Hamtramck’s former Director of Community & Economic Development, Eric Tungate, as Acting City Manager. However, there were not enough councilmembers present to conduct business. Councilmembers Cathie Gordon, Anam Miah and Robert Zwolak were absent. Councilmember Abdul Algazali arrived 30 minutes [...]
UPDATE, March 9, 2012: In a not an unexpected move, the city council and Mayor Karen Majewski fired City Manager Bill Cooper at a special meeting on Wednesday evening. The Review went to press a day earlier than usual this week, and could not report on the meeting for Friday’s paper. Majewski had to break [...]
By Alan Madeleine The Blowout has blown through once again. Marred this year, after closing time on Friday evening, by a truly ugly incident (see separate story, below) involving three female attendees being kidnapped and assaulted at gunpoint, the Hamtramck music staple will have to see whether it can withstand the resultant bad PR for [...]
By Charles Sercombe UPDATE: (March 5, 2012) Tonio David Dace, 21, was arraigned today in Hamtramck 31st District Court on 11 felony counts in connection with the carjacking of four women and the sexual assault of three of them. The incident happened early Saturday morning at about 2: 30 a.m. after the four women had [...]
By Charles Sercombe It’s been a year since three houses on the end of Faber St. burned. The cause of the fire is not known, but the damage that took place is still there for the world to see. And that has City Councilmember Robert Zwolak concerned, because the two houses that remain standing (the [...]
UPDATE: On Friday, it was learned through police sources that investigators are searching vacant houses somewhere on the west side of Detroit where a vehicle matching the description of the car used by the suspects was found. By Charles Sercombe At the time we went to press on Thursday, several police agencies were helping Hamtramck [...]
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