April 30th, 20220ANN ARBOR — To cap off Arab American Heritage Month, The Arab American News is highlighting the important work the Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD) at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan continues to do in the community.
The center, led by Arab American researchers...
April 29th, 20220DEARBORN — An effort to increase language access in Dearborn by its City Council may have taken a positive step forward last week.
In a special meeting, the Council passed a supplemental to its earlier resolution to translate election materials, including ballots, for its minority residents. On the insistence of Wayne County Clerk...
April 27th, 20220DEARBORN — U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) and Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) have joined colleagues to introduce a bill that includes people who identify as Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) as a racial and ethnic minority group in the U.S. Public Health Service Act.
The MENA population is categorized as White or "other"...
April 27th, 20220DEARBORN/DEARBORN HEIGHTS — The Dearborn and Dearborn Heights Police Departments are participating in prescription take back events at the end of the month.
The events are in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to give the public an opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by safely disposing of...
April 26th, 20220Michigan's elections officials are encouraging voters to hand-deliver their absentee ballots to their local clerk’s office or ballot drop box, in the week leading up to the May 3 elections
Several Michigan communities, including Dearborn, are holding elections next Tuesday. Absentee ballots must be returned by 8 p.m. on Election...
April 26th, 20220DEARBORN — The city of Dearborn’s Parks and Recreation Department is hosting a job fair on May 5 from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center.
Anyone age 16 and older is invited to attend the job fair.
The four-hour event will be held at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center at the...
April 22nd, 20220The deadline for withdrawal from the August primary election has now passed and here are some candidates in notable races for districts covering Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Hamtramck and more.
The following list appears on the Michigan Department of State's website and includes candidates who have withdrawn their names from each...
April 22nd, 20220DEARBORN — On April 10, the Dearborn Police Department received a complaint that an adult male suspect from the Grand Rapids area solicited a 14-year-old Dearborn minor to send sexually explicit material via social media.
In the online interaction, the minor self-identified as autistic.
Following a thorough investigation,...
April 22nd, 20220A special general election on May 3 will decide who sits in the State House seat vacated by Dearborn Mayor and former State Rep. Abdullah Hammoud through the end of the year.
The race for the 15th House District pits Democrat Jeff Pepper and Republican Ginger Shearer, formerly known as Virginia Polk.
Pepper won the special...
April 21st, 20221DEARBORN — Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud has successfully argued before the highest court in the land after first making history as the first Arab American Muslim woman to do so in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Justices rendered a 6-3 opinion in Hammoud's favor and in favor of the state’s stance in the...
April 20th, 20220DEARBORN — The Human services agency Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities (LAHC) announced more than $40,000 in scholarships for 16 local high school seniors to be awarded at its upcoming 34th Annual Awards Gala.
The high-profile event is scheduled to take place on Thursday, May 5 at 6 p.m. at the Shenandoah Country Club in...
April 20th, 20220DEARBORN — The deadline to sign up to participate in Dearborn’s annual Memorial Day Parade has been extended to Saturday, April 30.
The 96th annual Memorial Day Parade is scheduled for Monday, May 30, following a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is actively searching for participants.
The parade is one of the...
April 20th, 20220DEARBORN — Mayor Abdullah Hammoud has announced the appointment of Jordan Twardy as the city’s new director of economic development.
Twardy comes to the city with 15 years of government experience in economic and community development, fundraising, team building and project management. He most recently served as the Community and...
April 16th, 20220DEARBORN — After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Dearborn Homecoming Festival is making its return this August.
The festival, traditionally held at Ford Field Park, is moving to the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center and will be held from August 5 through August 7.
The new location was selected due to...
April 16th, 20220On March 22, the Dearborn City Council unanimously passed a resolution requiring ballot translation to any language spoken by more than 10,000 residents (or 5 percent of the population, whichever criteria is met first).
The resolution also calls for implementation to start as early as the August primary election. This was a historical...
April 16th, 20220DEARBORN - Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett appeared at the Dearborn City Council meeting this week to give her input, in public, to the city’s present language access efforts.
The Council passed a resolution in March, brought forth by Councilman Mustapha Hammoud, that sought to ensure ballots and other election materials would be...
April 16th, 20220DEARBORN - The Dearborn Police Department are hoping that residents can help identify a suspect wanted in connection to a recent home invasion.
On April 13 at approximately 2:30 p.m, the Dearborn Police Department responded to the area of the 3700 block of Madison Street regarding a home invasion.
The investigation found that an...
April 15th, 20221A federal grand jury in Flint returned an indictment on Wednesday, charging Michael Angelo (Angelo), Hassan Kamal Fayad, Mirna Kamal Fayad, Cory Justin Mann, Thomas Reed Quartz and Rosina Angelo with conspiring to defraud the IRS and other crimes.
According to the indictment, from approximately 2011 to 2022, Angelo owned and operated...
April 15th, 20220A Dearborn man is accused of possessing child porn after a man he was meeting with for sex saw images and videos on his phone, according to court records.
The man who saw the child porn contacted police about Haitham Sami Bazzi earlier this month.
According to a criminal complaint, the man who reported Bazzi went to Bazzi's home...
April 14th, 20220A man suspected of threatening mosques in Metro Detroit has been arrested, officials said.
The FBI is investigating threats made by a 60-year-old man who allegedly made statements about blowing up mosques in the Metro area, Dearborn police said in a statement Wednesday.
They said state police received information about the threats at...
April 13th, 20220DEARBORN — The Henry Ford Museum’s Greenfield Village is reopening and welcoming a new, permanent addition to the village.
Members will get exclusive early access on Friday, April 15.
Greenfield Village’s first permanent addition since 2000, the historic Detroit Central Market, opens on Saturday, April 16.
The addition of...
April 12th, 20220DEARBORN — Dearborn student Ronny Majeed Abdullah is one of 100 graduating high school students in the U.S. — and the only one in Michigan — to receive the prestigious Cooke College Scholarship.
Recipients will receive up to $55,000 annually to cover costs associated with their undergraduate education as they go on to attend...
April 12th, 20220DEARBORN — The director of Dearborn Department of Public Works and Facilities, Tim Hawkins, has announced Nicole Golich as the deputy director.
With the announcement, Golich becomes the first woman in the city’s history to assume that role, succeeding outgoing deputy director Eric Witte, who recently announced his...
April 12th, 20220DEARBORN — Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities (LAHC) announced on Monday it will give its 2022 Excellence and Great Achievements Award to Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud.
LAHC is a human services agency operating in southeast Michigan. Founded in 1982, the agency was previously known as the Lebanese American...
April 8th, 20220DEARBORN — The Ramadan Suhoor Festival is coming to Dearborn’s Fairlane Town Center beginning Friday, April 8, with a slate of dozens of vendors, after a two-year hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The festival will take place April 8-April 30, Friday and Saturday only, between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. at the Sears parking...
April 8th, 20220U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) is joining a group of two dozen U.S. House members to urge the Biden administration to work with Lebanese officials to ensure that the upcoming parliamentary elections on May 15 are carried out on time, transparently and free of corruption.
The group sent out a letter to Secretary of State Antony...
April 6th, 20220DEARBORN — Drivers can expect to see delays when using Miller Road between Rotunda Drive and Dix Avenue, starting on April 6, as construction is expected to last until the fall.
The construction project will consist of more than one mile of concrete pavement removal and replacement, including new driveway approaches, sidewalk ramps...
April 6th, 20220DEARBORN — Mayor Abdullah Hammoud has announced the appointment of Ali Abazeed, MPH, MPP to serve as the inaugural director of the newly established Department of Public Health (DPH).
Abazeed is a Dearborn native who most recently served as a public health advisor at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the federal agency...
