Dearborn Mayor-elect Abdullah Hammoud announces his transition team
November 12th, 20210 DEARBORN — Mayor-elect Abdullah Hammoud, the city's first Arab American mayor, has assembled his transition team. Health care expert Marianne Udow-Phillips will serve as the transition director and will oversee a transition team comprised of eight individuals representing a cross section of business, civic, education, labor and...
Community mourns death of 6-year-old; hit and run driver turns himself in
November 12th, 20210 DEARBORN – Tragedy struck the community when a 6-year-old was struck and killed by a driver on a residential street in Dearborn on Sunday. The Dearborn Police Department said that on Nov. 7, at approximately 2:50 p.m., officers responded to the 7600 block of Bingham Hit on the report of a pedestrian who had been struck by a vehicle....
Beaumont chief says fourth COVID surge looks more like a “marathon”
November 11th, 20210 ROYAL OAK — With COVID cases on the rise again, Beaumont’s chief medical officer is saying this fourth surge is taking on a different shape. Previous COVID surges in 2020 and early 2021 saw rapid increases in cases and then climbs in hospitalizations, followed by rapid declines in both cases and hospitalizations. But this...
Whitmer signs legislation allowing for two-year vehicle registrations
November 11th, 20210 LANSING — Governor Whitmer signed legislation Wednesday in hopes of saving drivers a trip to the Secretary of State’s office every year. House Bill 4117 allows drivers to choose a two-year vehicle registration, helping to improve the convenience of Secretary of State services. Whitmer also signed Senate Bill 220, allowing for...
Dr. Tarek Sobh appointed next president of Lawrence Technological University
November 11th, 20210 SOUTHFIELD — Dr. Tarek M. Sobh has been appointed as the eighth president of Lawrence Technological University (LTU), announced Douglas Ebert, chairman of LTU’s Board of Trustees. Sobh, an Egyptian American, is a licensed professional engineer and has served as vice president of academic affairs and provost at Lawrence Tech since...
Palestinian American Huwaida Arraf announces Congressional bid for Thumb district
November 11th, 20210 A Palestinian American has announced her campaign to represent Michigan’s 10th Congressional District. Huwaida Arraf is a "working mother, human rights advocate, attorney and first-generation American," says a campaign press release. She is vying for a Congressional seat in a state that is slated to see a reshaping of its political...
Henry Ford Early College, Haigh Elementary receive Blue Ribbon School Awards in Washington
November 11th, 20210 DEARBORN — Representatives from Henry Ford Early College and Haigh Elementary received Blue Ribbon School Awards. The schools learned earlier this year that they would be among 13 schools in Michigan and 325 across the country to receive the recognition. Haigh Principal Zachary Short, HFEC Director Majed Fadlallah and...
Michigan opens applications for $350 million childcare grant program
November 10th, 20210 LANSING — The state has opened up applications for the Child Care Stabilization Grant, which aims to distribute $350 million in grants. The grants would be used to give every full-time childcare professional a $1,000 bonus and keep childcare programs open and serving children. “Childcare is the backbone of a strong economy and...
Arrest made in Southfield shooting, carjacking may be related to violent Dearborn attack
November 10th, 20210 SOUTHFIELD — Police believe a shooting and carjacking by masked men in Southfield may be related to a violent attack in Dearborn. The attack in Southfield happened at 10:10 p.m. on Nov. 8 in the 25800 block of Southfield Road. According to authorities, the victim told police that he had been shot by two men who then stole his...
Former Oakland County priest pleads guilty in sex abuse cases
November 10th, 20210 LANSING — A former priest in Oakland County has pleaded guilty to sex abuse in cases that stemmed from allegations of abuse in the 1970s. The allegations involved three different victims who were between 13 and 15-years-old at the time. Gary Berthiaume, 79, was sent to trial in July by Judge James Brady in Oakland County’s...
Six things to know about the Nov. 12 deadline to apply for Federal Disaster Assistance
November 5th, 20210 DETROIT — Residents of Southeast Michigan who experienced uninsured and underinsured damage or losses from the June 25-26 severe storms, flooding and tornadoes only have one week remaining to apply for federal assistance. The deadline to apply is Friday, Nov. 12. It’s important to understand the following six things when applying...
A long journey to a “historic” election
November 5th, 20210 This week, headlines regarding Tuesday’s election across local, national and international media included some version of the word "historic." Not surprising when one takes into consideration that three Arab American candidates in some of the state’s densest cities enjoyed landslide victories for mayoral races: Amer Ghalib in...
Westland: Mayor Bill Wild wins re-election in a landslide, Godbout, Hart and Herzberg return to Council
November 5th, 20210 WESTLAND — Voters in Westland had the difficult decision of choosing a mayor and four City Council members in the general election. Mayor Bill Wild, who has served as mayor since 2007, ran for reelection against Councilwoman Tasha Green. With 12,122 votes cast, Wild received 8,704 or 71.8 percent, giving him his fourth term as...
Dearborn Heights: Constan, Wencel and Baydoun return to Council, Ahmad and Bryer newcomers
November 5th, 20210 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — With partial and full terms for City Council and clerk, a full term for treasurer and different proposals on the ballot this year, the results are in for all but one position. City Council One of the partial terms on the ballot was to finish out former Councilwoman Lisa Hicks-Clayton’s term when she was...
Dearborn: Three new Council members and Sareini clinches the Council presidency; nine Charter Commissioners elected
November 5th, 20210 DEARBORN — As a historic election comes to an end, the city will be welcoming three new faces to the City Council and nine Charter Commissioners. City Council All seven City Council seats were up for grabs, with four incumbents — Mike Sareini, Erin Byrnes, Leslie Herrick and Robert Abraham — running for re-election and......
Dingell once again presses U.S. government for Lebanon TPS designation
November 4th, 20210 DEARBORN — As a followup to several requests to the Biden administration to provide temporary protective status (TPS) to Lebanese nationals in the U.S., U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of State this week. "Almost every single day, I hear from neighbors in my district who are desperate to...
Hamtramck’s Amer Ghalib to serve as city’s first Yemeni mayor after historic election
November 3rd, 20211 HAMTRAMCK — Amer Ghalib celebrated a decisive victory against a long-time incumbent mayor on Tuesday, in an election that marks the changing of political tides in the city's history. Ghalib may also be the first fully Yemeni American to serve as mayor of an American city, though Montgomery Township, New Jersey's Sadaf Jaffer,......
Bill Bazzi becomes first Arab American to be elected mayor; beats Council chair
November 3rd, 20210 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Mayor Bill Bazzi has beat challenger Council Chairwoman Denise Malinowski-Maxwell and will continue being mayor. Bazzi earned 73 percent of the vote for a partial term that ends this year and 72 percent of the vote for a full four-year term that follows. The partial term was to finish the term of former...
State Rep. Abdullah Hammoud makes history as Dearborn’s first Muslim and Arab American mayor
November 3rd, 20210 DEARBORN — State Rep. Abdullah Hammoud became the seventh mayor of Dearborn following the Nov. 2 election, beating Gary Woronchak by nearly 3,000 votes. The votes cast were 13,040 for Hammoud, giving him 54.6 percent, and 10,796 for Woronchak, giving him 45.2 percent. “The people of Dearborn spoke loudly,” Hammoud said....
Children ages 5 to 11 now eligible for COVID-19 vaccine
November 3rd, 20210 The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), doctors and state public health leaders are urging Michigan parents to get their children ages 5 to 11 vaccinated with Pfizer's COVID-19 pediatric vaccine, which received emergency use authorization for this age group from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and was...
Dearborn clerk office open for extended Election Day hours
November 1st, 20210 DEARBORN - The Dearborn City Clerk’s Office will be extending its operating hours to 7 a.m. – 8 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 2, for residents who need to register to vote and then complete their voting, and for people who are already registered to vote to drop off an absent voter (AV ballot). The Clerk’s Office is inside......
Whitmer wants $5 billion in refunds to be delivered to Michigan drivers
November 1st, 20210 LANSING — After Michigan changed car insurance laws to give drivers the option to choose levels of injury coverage, the state’s has a surplus of mare than $5 billion in excess claims paid that could be getting back to drivers. Governor Whitmer said Monday that the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association (MCCA) should deliver...
Children’s Garden II to open in Dearborn
October 31st, 20210 DEARBORN — With child care being such an important topic among many working families, Children’s Garden II is set to open next week. The new location, located on Henry Ford College’s campus in Building I at 5101 Evergreen Road, at the south entrance of the HFC campus in Dearborn, will host two open house events for parents to......
The Arab American News endorsements for Dearborn’s municipal elections
October 30th, 20210 DEARBORN — With a historic election on the horizon, The Arab American News has announced its endorsements for mayor, City Council and Charter Revision Commission. The Arab American News made the decision of endorsing State Rep. Abdullah Hammoud for mayor and incumbent Mike Sareini, Mustapha Hammoud, Khodr Farhat, Samra’a Luqman,...
The Arab American News endorsements for Dearborn Heights’ municipal elections
October 30th, 20210 The Arab American News is endorsing three candidates for City Council, one for mayor and one for treasurer in the Nov. 2 election. For mayor, The Arab American News is endorsing incumbent Mayor Bill Bazzi for both the partial and full term. Bill Bazzi was appointed mayor on January 26 to succeed the late Daniel Paletko, who passed......
