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Mayor inspires students to reach a little higher in career goals

By Ian Perrotta Review Staffwriter Since March is National Reading Month, Jenna McGregor decided to book the mayor. Last Monday (March 22) Hamtramck Mayor Karen Majewski was at Hanley Academy…

Big plans for Jos. Campau’s biggest building

Big plans for Jos. Campau’s biggest building

By Terry Parris Jr. Special to The Review It’s pitch-black, and we are walking up a creaking, twisting, wooden staircase of the tallest structure on the corner of Belmont and…

Street Life …

By Walter Wasacz After receiving a gracious welcome to the pages of The Review last week by Editor Charles Sercombe (in a note attached to my report on the fabulous…

Hamtown’s Movers and Shakers …

Hamtown’s Movers and Shakers …

by Alan Madeleine Who she is: Deb Nevinski, recently retired Administrative Assistant for Community & Economic Development for the City of Hamtramck You recently retired from working for the City…

A final song and dance to Black History Month

A final song and dance to Black History Month

By Ian Perrotta Review Staffwriter There was a lesson to be learned last Friday at Dickinson West Elementary School. And it was taught by the students. To cap a month-long…

Snow, snow everywhere but where are the kids?

Snow, snow everywhere but where are the kids?

By Charles Sercombe For the second week in a row, Hamtramck was walloped with a snowfall of several inches. And as usual, Hamtramckans slogged through the wet mush without much…

Get ready to be ‘blown out’

By Alan Madeleine Review Staffwriter And no, we’re not talking here about the norovirus that’s making digestive systems empty from here all the way to Rhode Island. We’re referring to…

New Orleans can have Mardi Gras, we’ve got paczki

New Orleans can have Mardi Gras, we’ve got paczki

(Editor’s note: Our “cub” reporter, Alan Madeleine, has a degree in English and also has a master’s degree in something. He owns not only a dictionary, but also a thesaurus.…

Hamtramck’s ‘Tex’ rolls in the dough

By Alan Madeleine That Man in the Paczki Suit (you would almost certainly have seen him wandering the streets of Hamtramck on Tuesday) has a name: Tex. And he wants…

Knights of Columbus prove home is where the heart is

By Ian Perrotta Review Staffwriter You don’t have to have a home to be hospitable. Just ask Hamtramck’s Knights of Columbus. Despite losing their hall on Conant St., the Knights…