September 23rd, 20190HAMTRAMCK – The city of Hamtramck is expected to see three new two-family homes as part of a refugee resettlement project.
The project, dubbed Freedom Village, will provide refugees affordable transitional housing. Construction is underway and is expected to be complete by the summer of 2020.
Wayne County will utilize funds from...
September 13th, 20190HAMTRAMCK – A 2019 study has ranked Hamtramck, Michigan as number three among five best cities to live in the United States to build good credit rating.
Apartment Guide’s 2019 Best Cities to Repair Credit study reveals ideal cities based on a number of key factors, including cost of living, average credit card debt and eviction...
August 3rd, 20190HAMTRAMCK — Nine Hamtramck City Council candidates, including six Muslims, will face off on Aug. 6 for three seats, with the top six vote getters going on to compete in the November 5 general elections.
The six Muslim candidates are Nayeem Choudhury, Mohammed Alsomiri, Anam Miah, Abu Musa, Saad Almasmari and Mohammed...
May 31st, 20190DETROIT — A Bangladeshi American father of seven was shot and killed while driving his cab Saturday morning.
Hamtramck resident Joynul Islam, 60, was a cab driver for Checker Cab. The incident occurred as he was dropping a passenger off on the 600 block of Collingwood Street, near Woodward, around 2 a.m. Saturday.
According to...
November 30th, 20180DETROIT — General Motors announced Monday it will close three assembly plants by the end of 2019.
A total of 1,500 jobs in Hamtramck are at stake at the plant where the Chevrolet Volt and Impala, the Cadillac CT6 and the Buick LaCrosse are made. Those vehicles are to be terminated.
GM said it will reduce its North American...
October 29th, 20180HAMTRAMCK — Elevated lead levels in tap water tested in two homes in the city called for educational outreach to customers in the city.
Every three years the city of Hamtramck tests tap water in homes for lead and copper as required by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ).
Over the summer the city collected...
October 22nd, 20180HAMTRAMCK - The city will install a new stop sign at the intersection of Gallagher and Belmont, creating a three-way stop.
The city plans to place traffic signs and flags along both Gallagher and Belmont to alert drivers of the new stop sign.
“This intersection is heavily travelled, especially during the school year,” said...
October 19th, 20181HAMTRAMCK ― An organization promoting cultural visibility in Hamtramck is sponsoring another mural highlighting the vast diversity of the city's neighborhoods.
A mural dedicated to the Bangladeshi community of Hamtramck appeared this week, painted by the Boston-based Mexican American artist Victor Quinonez, also known as...
August 12th, 20180HAMTRAMCK – Two Arab American candidates lost in the Democratic primary election in Hamtramck on August 7.
Abraham Aiyash ran for State Senate in the Second District, while Saad Almasmari campaigned for the Fourth District seat in the Michigan House of Representatives.
Aiyash earned 5,764 votes while his primary opponent,...
July 22nd, 20180DETROIT— Among the seven Democratic candidates seeking to fill a Detroit-area State Senate seat left open by a term-limited incumbent who pleaded guilty to federal theft and conspiracy charges, two have histories involving crime and controversy.
Former State Sen. Bert Johnson (D-Highland Park) resigned after pleading guilty to...
July 21st, 20180HAMTRAMCK — On Thursday, July 19, the Hamtramck Historical Museum held an official dedication of the “Coming to Hamtramck” mural installed inside the museum’s main gallery walls.
The 150-foot-long by 6-foot-high mural was made possible by a grant from the Michigan Humanities Council amounting to $15,000.
Since Hamtramck's...
June 29th, 20180HAMTRAMCK — Mu’ath Bin Jabal Mosque in Detroit is a focal point for the growing population of Yemeni immigrants who live along the border of Hamtramck and Detroit and is located on a social and economically successful avenue that caters to Yemeni Americans and other community members. On June 24, the mosque awarded 12 Yemeni American...
June 18th, 20180DETROIT — The number of Frontier International Academy (FIA) students applying to universities is increasing every year and the class of 2018 has brought the school to its peak in college and university acceptances.
Frontier International Academy has won the grand prize in the Race to the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student...
March 9th, 20180By Farah Harb
The Arab American News
HAMTRAMCK — The financial emergency in Hamtramck has been resolved, putting the city out of emergency management and under the guidance of a transition board.
In the past 14 years, Hamtramck has overcome two financial crises, under the direction of an emergency manager.
In June 2013,...
March 3rd, 20180State Oversight Board Abolished, Full Local Control Re-Established
LANSING, Mich. – Michigan Treasurer Nick Khouri today announced the city of Hamtramck has been released from receivership under the Local Financial Stability and Choice Act and dissolved the Hamtramck Receivership Transition Advisory Board (RTAB).
The state...
March 2nd, 20180DEARBORN — The conversation around upgrading an aging infrastructure is taking center stage around the nation and especially in Michigan, where lead-contaminated water pipes have poisoned an entire city, mold grows in middle school classrooms and bad weather makes for deadly potholes.
Weak roads, coupled with drastic thawing of...
February 9th, 20180
HAMTRAMCK — When Saad Almasmari made history in Nov. 2015 by receiving the most votes in the Hamtramck City Council race— making it the first City Council with a Muslim-majority in the U.S— he pledged to ensure proportional representation and that the city would handle resources well enough to move on from emergency...
January 26th, 20180By Farah Harb
HAMTRAMCK — Members of a Hamtramck family claim the police treated them pitilessly during a traffic stop on Jan. 3 in which the father was pulled over for an expired tag and ticketed for having no insurance.
Nasser Almasmari had his pregnant wife, 10-year old son and 2-year-old and 11-month-old daughters with him when...
January 19th, 20181HAMTRAMCK — Hani Omasan loves cooking. Although he has worked in different realms of the auto industry for more than 20 years, he's found cooking burgers to be a great hobby.
Last November, Omasan made his hobby a business when he opened California Burgerz, which sells 100 percent halal USDA premium angus beef.
The restaurant,...
January 5th, 20180Here's our 2017 year-in-review of the most important news and developments as reported by The Arab American News locally, nationally and internationally.
Community and local
1. Former Dearborn City Clerk Kathy Buda was convicted on embezzlement charges, after clerk office employees reported suspicions she was stealing cash from fees...
November 10th, 20170HAMTRAMCK — Mayor Karen Majewski won reelection to a fourth term on Tuesday, Nov. 7. She received 1,960 votes, while Mohammed Hassan finished with 1,231.
The overall voter turnout in the city's Nov. 7 general elections was 22 percent.
In the City Council race, Fadel Al-Marsoumi became the second Arab American elected to that...
October 27th, 20171HAMTRMACK – A few divisive races and shake ups in the City Council are bound to emerge during elections in a town as diverse as Hamtramck.
After a contentious debate over who to appoint as the new city manager, disparaging remarks by a Council member and a state investigation over voter fraud by an incumbent Council candidate,...
October 20th, 20170DEARBORN – It was an unfavorable outcome for some new candidates in Dearborn and neighboring cities' primary elections, but some might have another shot at making it into office on Nov. 7.
After a passionate debate on Tuesday, Oct. 17, The Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC) endorsed candidates in the general elections...
September 29th, 20170HAMTRAMCK— The Hamtramck City Council’s proposed resolution to censure Councilman Ian Perrotta over controversial comments he made about immigrants earlier this month was removed without any explanation.
The council did not vote Tuesday on the resolution introduced by Councilman Anam Miah that called for Perrotta to be “publicly...
September 14th, 20172HAMTRAMCK — A councilmember in one of the most diverse cities in the nation is facing a backlash after he blamed a trash problem on immigrant residents.
"There is an issue with trash in Hamtramck," Councilman Ian Perrotta said in an interview on WWJ AM 950. "I think some of it comes from the fact that some of our immigrant...
September 7th, 20170HOUSTON, DEARBORN — Striding strenuously down a freeway, mostly mothers and their children were knee deep in water, making the journey away from their drowned homes.
They carried on their shoulders only what they could save. The water rose so fast that few families in Southeast Texas were left unthreatened by Hurricane Harvey's...
August 11th, 20170HAMTRAMCK — Even though 33 percent of Hamtramck's residents are Yemeni, only one Yemeni candidate— Mohammad Al-Somiri— made it to the general elections this year.
Yemeni American Councilman Saad Almasmari said the community was hoping educator Akil Al-Halemi would make it through the City Council primary race because of his high...
August 8th, 20170HAMTRAMCK- So far, a low number of voters showed up at the Hamtramck precincts for this year’s primary.
According to City Clerk August Gitschlag, there are 1385 registered voters in precinct 1, 2076 in precinct 2, 1635 in precinct 3, 2738 in precinct 4, 1131 in precinct 5, 1099 in precinct 6 and 1421 in precinct 7.
A total of...
