Crestwood School families now qualify for food assistance
March 26th, 20210 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Families with students enrolled in the Crestwood School District will now qualify for Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) relief. P-EBT provides supplemental food assistance benefits to students who have temporarily lost access to free school meals due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of the program is to make sure no...
Wayne County Executive Evans commits $5 million to help residents facing home foreclosure
March 26th, 20210 DETROIT — Wayne County Executive Warren C. Evans announced that the county will add $5 million to the amount already pledged to fight home foreclosures. The Gilbert Family Foundation and the Rocket Community fund have already pledged $15 million to the project. “Keeping people in their homes is the surest way to create a...
A list of COVID-19 vaccine providers in Wayne County
March 25th, 20210 Michigan residents aged 16 and older with disabilities or preexisting conditions are now eligible to receive the vaccine. All residents 16 and older will be eligible to receive the vaccine beginning April 5. Residents should schedule appointments through their hospital group or other vaccine providers, such as the Ford Field clinic....
MI Symptoms COVID-19 tracker surpasses 3 million entries
March 25th, 20210 LANSING — MI Symptoms, a free and secure online symptom screening tool designed to help screen people for COVID-19, has surpassed 3 million entries. The tool was designed to help organizations screen members and employees for symptoms related to COVID-19. MI Symptom was created by the Michigan Department of Health and Human...
International exchange student program looking for host families this fall
March 25th, 20210 DEARBORN — In the last year, many international exchange students were unable to come to the U.S. due to the COVID-19 pandemic. World Link, an organization that links students from different parts of the world to host families, provided these students with a virtual program linking each student with an American host family and...
Garden City building department closes due to COVID-19
March 25th, 20210 GARDEN CITY — The Garden City Building Department has announced that it will be closed until further notice because multiple employees have COVID-19. The department is attempting to contact all residents with inspections scheduled to notify them. “Out of an abundance of caution, the Garden City Building Department will be...
Dearborn vaccine center to now accept people 18 and older, with conditions
March 24th, 20210 DEARBORN — People over 18 with medical conditions can now make appointments for the COVID-19 vaccines for March 25-31. Appointments are available at the Dearborn Consolidated Vaccination Center. Anyone over the age of 50 can also make an appointment. Appointments are for people who live in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Inkster,...
Update: Dearborn man charged with 15 counts in stabbing incident at Detroit hookah lounge
March 24th, 20210 DETROIT — Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has charged Taha Shitawi, 34, of Dearborn, with 15 counts in the stabbing of five people, a 32-year-old man, two 31-year-old men, a 25-year-old man, all of Dearborn, and a 29-year-old woman, of Shelby Township, in a violent incident at Taiga Hookah Lounge in Detroit, Sunday...
Beaumont reinstates visitor restrictions amid rising COVID-19 cases
March 24th, 20210 DEARBORN — Effective March 25 at 8 a.m., all Beaumont Health hospitals will be reinstating their visitor restrictions due to rising COVID cases. This is the third time the health system has issued visitor restrictions. Under the restrictions, no one will be allowed in rooms of patients with pending or positive COVID tests except...
19th District Court offers Veterans Treatment Court
March 24th, 20210 DEARBORN — The 19th District Court in Dearborn offers a special treatment court for veterans facing misdemeanor charges. The Veterans Treatment Court is focused on veterans who are facing misdemeanor offenses, including traffic offenses. The court was first started more than a year and a half ago and helps offer other solutions...
Dearborn Council tables ordinances on medical marijuana grow facilities; institutes 90 day moratorium on new facilities
March 23rd, 20210 DEARBORN — Following a Monday protest outside of the Dearborn Administrative Center this week, the Dearborn City Council has tabled four ordinances at its Tuesday meeting. The ordinances tabled pertained to zoning regulations for medical marijuana grow and sell facilities. According to Dearborn City Council President Susan...
Dearborn to offer additional COVID vaccine appointments
March 23rd, 20210 DEARBORN — The city of Dearborn is offering more appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine for March 24-31 for those 50-years-old and older. The Dearborn Consolidated Vaccination Center is at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center at 15801 Michigan Ave. The vaccines are Moderna and are available by appointment only from 9...
City of Dearborn to support Autism Awareness Day
March 22nd, 20210 DEARBORN — The city of Dearborn is encouraging residents to light the city in blue to show support for Autism Awareness Day on Friday, April 2. World Autism Awareness Day was started 14 years ago. The goal of World Autism Awareness Day is to join an international community where hundreds of thousands of landmarks, buildings,...
Pontiac grocer to pay $95,000 in back wages following federal investigation
March 22nd, 20211 PONTIAC — An investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor found that a Pontiac grocer owed 14 employees more than $95,000 in overtime back wages. The investigation found that the employer of the Carnival Market did not properly pay cashiers, bakers and dishwashers their legally earned wages and now must pay a total of...
Reckless behaviors could lead to disastrous consequences
March 20th, 20210 In 2017, The Arab American News published a story titled “Local Yemenis feel marginalized as Lebanese brethren gain momentum.” In it, writer Hassan Khalifeh interviewed multiple Yemeni Americans in Dearborn and Hamtramck about their experiences of marginalization, and in some cases outright discrimination, by other more entrenched......
Annapolis senior wins humanitarian award
March 20th, 20210 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — 18-year-old Annapolis High School Senior Nadia Nasir received the school's humanitarian award at the March 17 School Board meeting for her efforts in the community. In her sophomore year of high school, Nasir organized a school fashion show that raised more than $8,000 to donate to Kids Against Hunger. As a...
Detroit’s HUDA Clinic continues its mission of charitable, holistic community care
March 20th, 20210 DETROIT - 2021 should be a transformative year for HUDA Clinic in Detroit. Located near the Highland Park enclave in Detroit, the free clinic has been providing essential medical and psychological care services to the low income communities in Detroit and Hamtramck for almost two decades. The urgency of that care only intensified......
Denise Malinowski-Maxwell announces candidacy for Dearborn Heights mayor
March 19th, 20210 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — In a post on her Facebook page dedicated to her position as City Council chairwoman, Denise Malinowski-Maxwell announced her candidacy for mayor. Malinowski-Maxwell has served as the Council chair since 2018 and served as the mayor pro-tem from the time of Mayor Daniel Paletko’s death in December until the...
Dearborn mayor appoints Tim Hawkins to lead Property Maintenance and Development Services Department (PMADS)
March 19th, 20210 DEARBORN — Dearborn’s Property Maintenance and Development Services Department (PMADS) has a new director and a new direction. According to Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly, the PMADS Department has a new focus of improving service and bettering customer communication. PMADS is responsible for building permits and construction...
Asian Americans grieve, organize in wake of Atlanta spa attacks
March 19th, 20210 ATLANTA — A White gunman has been charged with killing eight people, most of them Asian women, in attacks at three Atlanta-area massage parlors on Tuesday. Police have said that the suspect, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, had been previously treated for sex addiction and had frequented the spas. It’s not clear whether...
Michigan has the second highest number of COVID variant cases in the U.S.
March 19th, 20210 DETROIT — With multiple variants of COVID-19 spreading throughout the United States, two of the more concerning variants have been found in Michigan. According to the CDC, the largest number of variant cases have been detected in Michigan and in Florida. According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS),......
Students who received partial loan relief will soon see full discharge
March 19th, 20210 WASHINGTON D.C. — Students who were defrauded by their colleges and received only partial relief from their federal loans could now see them fully canceled. The change proposed by the Biden administration could lead to $1 billion in loans being canceled for 72,000 borrowers, all of whom attended for-profit schools, the Education...
U.S.-Canada border restrictions extended through April 21
March 19th, 20210 DETROIT — Travel restrictions across the U.S. and Canada border will remain in place through at least April 21 due to the COVID pandemic. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated that the border will remain closed to non-essential travelers through April to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. “To prevent the further......
Dearborn Heights to offer free water filters for residents
March 19th, 20210 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — With water quality having been a concern for several residents over the last year, the city is stepping up to ease those concerns. The city of Dearborn Heights is offering free water filters to residents who meet certain eligibility requirements. Residents with a child under the age of 18 living at their...
Governor Whitmer, ex-health director agree to waive confidentiality
March 19th, 20210 LANSING — Governor Whitmer’s office said that the state and former Health Director Robert Gordon amended his $155,000 severance deal. The amendment will remove a confidentiality clause. Gordon resigned abruptly in January, the day he issued a COVID order allowing restaurants to reopen for indoor dining after a month-long......
