By Charles Sercombe What is our City Council up to these days? We have the scoop and the highlights – as well as the lowlights – of the latest council…
By Charles Sercombe The housing market may be in the toilet, but you wouldn’t know it by looking around Hamtramck. How’s that? The city is undergoing a massive housing development…
By Ian Perrotta If things go right for Hamtramck’s Weed and Seed program, area gangs will have a lot more to worry about than who’s wearing what color. The community…
By Charles Sercombe One by one, public school teachers in the metro area are agreeing to salary cuts to help defray budget deficits. River Rouge teachers recently agreed to a…
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck was Party Town,` USA this past week. What, with the Blowout all weekend and Paczki Day on Tuesday … Whew! For the second year in a…
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck had a little extra something to celebrate this past week. Besides the Blowout and Paczki Day festivities, city officials learned there was a tentative settlement with…
By Charles Sercombe Union members from all walks of work haven’t felt this much buzz in years. There is opposition growing against Republican lawmakers attempting to roll back union rights…
By Charles Sercombe Wow. What an incredible weekend and week ahead for Hamtramck. First up is the annual “Hamtramck Blowout” this weekend and then — as if that isn’t enough…
By Alan R. Madeleine Sandy Bakic, of New Martha Washington Bakery on Jos. Campau, remembers a certain Detroit News front-page story that she swears put Hamtramck’s Paczki Day on the…
By Ian Perrotta Hung over yet? If your answer is no, you’ve got some work to do – there are only two nights left of the Hamtramck Blowout. Now in…