Voters may decide on public safety
By Charles Sercombe Should Hamtramck abolish its police and fire departments, and the allow members of the city council to decide how to provide those services? That’s a question voters…
Voters sink plans for a variety of school repair projects
By Charles Sercombe Plans for building a new school and making major repairs to existing school buildings will have to be put on hold. Hamtramck voters overwhelmingly rejected the…
Hamtramck School Board will see some new faces
By Charles Sercombe The Hamtramck Public School Board is in for a big change. School Boardmembers Evan Major and Dennis Lukas have joined Maggie Srodek, who recently resigned, in…
Breaking news … Limited elections results
Updated, 1:30 p.m. By Charles Sercombe Plans for building a new school and making major repairs to existing school buildings will have to be put on hold. It appears Hamtramck…
District officials are finalizing plans for the new school year
By Charles Sercombe This fall’s return to school will look pretty much like last spring: For the most part students will be learning from home. Recently, the school board…
Clocking is ticking for election day
By Charles Sercombe Next Tuesday (Aug. 4) is election day in Hamtramck, as it is across the state. The most prominent issue in Hamtramck is the school bond proposal, which…
Secretary of State urges AV ballots to be hand-delivered
By Charles Sercombe As most of us have noticed, mail delivery has slowed down since the coronavirus pandemic broke out. That’s because a number of US postal workers have…
For some on Holbrook, road repair is just one inconvenience
By Charles Sercombe First came the coronavirus pandemic and the shutting down of non-essential businesses. Then came the closing of Holbrook between Lumpkin and Jos. Campau to rebuild the…
Dentist pays honor to frontline responders and workers
By Alan Madlane Sami Bilani is a local dentist with a wide open vision. Or is that an “open wide” vision? Well anyway, he’s not the kind of…
School Board vacancy filled
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck has a new School Boardmember. And she one of Hamtramck’s own. On Tuesday evening, the board interviewed six candidates via teleconference. After the interviews concluded,…
