Veterans toast to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice
By Charles Sercombe If there is one thing you can say about Hamtramck veterans, they are true to tradition. Forget about holding a ceremony on the “observed” Veterans Day. Hamtramck…
City officials tinker with budget deficit elimination plan
By Charles Sercombe For the third time, city officials were presented with a plan to cut the city’s budget deficit. The council already agreed to a deficit elimination plan…
Kowalski Deli serves its last meal
By Charles Sercombe A Hamtramck landmark business is about close its doors for good. A letter went out on Monday from the Kowalski Sausage Co. announcing that…
Crime Log …11/23/12
By Ian Perrotta This week’s daily crime reports span from Nov. 13 to Nov. 19. Tuesday, November 13 At midnight a resident of the 2600 block of Holmes reported…
Crime Log …11/16/12
By Ian Perrotta This week’s Crime log covers Thursday, November 8 through Monday, November 12. It’s a little shorter than usual, but that’s because we wanted to leave plenty…
School Board takes a much needed review of recreation
Last week a question was posed whether the public school district should keep its recreation commission. The issue came up abruptly after it was realized that the commission had…
Hamtramck voters do a replay of the 2008 election
By Charles Sercombe Just like in the 2008 presidential election, Hamtramck voters came out in droves last Tuesday. And also just like in the ’08 election they gave their…
Financial watch continues
By Charles Sercombe Now that the state’s relatively new emergency manager law has been struck down by state voters, what does this mean for Hamtramck? “Basically, we’re in…
City Hall Insider …11/9/12
What is our City Council up to these days? We have the highlights of the latest council meeting. By Charles Sercombe Here is part two of the Oct.…
Frontier soccer team scores an upset in state championship play
By Ian Perrotta Before last Saturday (Nov. 3), most people had never heard of Frontier International Academy. It only took 90 minutes to change that. The school’s unranked…
