Thank you very much for your story on the history of the grandstands at Veterans Park. Baseball historian Gary Gillette brought up very significant incentives in the potential preservation of…
By Mike Murphy Special to The Review Though not counting chickens before they hatch, the Hamtramck Historical Commission (HHC) is hopeful that a museum site it’s been seeking for a…
By Ian Perrotta It looks like the initiative to restore the grandstands at Veterans Park is beginning to pick up some steam. Three weeks ago, The Review reported that members…
By Charles Sercombe City Councilmember Catrina Stackpoole gave it one more try to convince her colleagues to pass a property tax increase. And again, it went nowhere. At Tuesday’s council…
By Charles Sercombe The talk in Hamtramck 31st District Court on Tuesday afternoon was the shock in how young they looked. Too young, court observers said, to have possibly committed…
By Ian Perrotta The final whistle has blown for Hamtramck’s spring sports teams. In its first season under new coach Lauren Ealba, the girls’ soccer team went an impressive 6-10…
By Ian Perrotta Hamtramck’s ethnic diversity was on full display last Thursday at Dickinson East Elementary School’s 13th Annual Multicultural Celebration and Ice Cream Social. Over 800 people attended the…
(Editor-at-Large Walter Wasacz writes a weekly column on life in Hamtramck.) By Walter Wasacz Last weekend, I got lucky. Not only was I in Montreal to write about at an…
We hate to be party poopers, but it looks like trying to organize this year’s Hamtramck Labor Day Festival is a bust. At Tuesday’s City Council meeting, a lengthy debate…
By Alan Madeleine While sitting in the spacious, Albert Khan-designed Russell Street complex, once owned by the notorious hotelier Leona Helmsley, the conversation rolls easily out of General Manager Jim…