December 7th, 20180DEARBORN — On Monday, December 3, the Dearborn Police Department and Mayor Jack O’Reilly held a press conference to address crime updates and issues in the city.
Dearborn Police officials included Police Chief Ron Haddad. Representatives from the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office and the Retailers and Michigan Liquor Control...
December 7th, 20180DEARBORN — After being elected to fill the remaining two years of a six-year term on the Dearborn Public Schools Board of Education, Mary Lane resigned from her current six-year term on the board. The resignation creates a vacancy on the Board until Dec. 31.
“Ms. Lane resigned her seat on the Board on December 4,” said...
December 2nd, 20180DEARBORN – The Palestinian struggle carries countless stories of suffering and injustice. Such is the case with Mohammed Abu Hussein, a young Palestinian boy who lost his right leg in June during the Great March of Return along the Gaza border against the Israeli occupation.
Mohammed is currently in Dearborn, where he will receive a...
December 2nd, 20180DEARBORN— After 40 years in business, Ace Diamond Jewelers is closing down.
When asked why, co-owner Carl Marusak laughed and said, "I am getting old."
Marusak and his brother Richard, both in their early 60s, have been jewelers since their teenage years.
The Dearborn-based business, established in 1979, specializes in...
December 1st, 20180DEARBORN — The city’s two separate programs to collect loose leaves and bagged leaves from in front of residential properties are both ending the week of December 10-14, with the last collection on each neighborhood’s trash day.
The city is encouraging residents to rake their leaves now for pickup the week of December 3-7 and...
December 1st, 20180DEARBORN – For the eighth year in a row, the city of Dearborn has been given a high rating by University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Center for Innovation Research, recognizing the city’s ability to foster entrepreneurial growth and economic development.
The recognition comes as part of an annual “eCities” study conducted by U...
November 30th, 20180DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Red Effect Infrared Fitness opened a new women-exclusive location on Ford Road in Dearborn Heights on Friday Nov. 23, the first of its kind for the chain with more than 300 franchises sold and in development.
Allie Mallad, owner of Red Effect, said he came up with the idea two years ago just after he began the...
November 30th, 20180DEARBORN – Yemen is facing the worst humanitarian crisis in modern history, with more than 22 million people, 60 percent of the population, in urgent need of food, drink, clothing and shelter, according to the United Nations.
With the ongoing escalation of the armed conflict, the number of victims and displaced persons who find...
November 24th, 20180DEARBORN — On Tuesday, November 20, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Michigan-Dearborn hosted its second art expo dedicated to the theme of resistance and spreading awareness of oppression.
The event, which follows up on one held in 2016, featured artwork submitted and presented by students at the...
November 23rd, 20180ROYAL OAK — The city of Royal Oak has banned recreational marijuana businesses for now, but city leaders reportedly plan to get input from residents to consider such businesses in the future.
Michigan voters approved proposal 1, allowing adults 21 and older to use marijuana for recreational purposes, in the Nov. 6 election, but each...
November 19th, 20180DEARBORN – All City of Dearborn buildings will be closed on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 22.
The Dearborn Administrative Center, all Dearborn Public Library branches, 19th District Court and the Senior Center will remain closed on Friday, Nov. 23.
The Ford Community & Performing Arts Center will reopen on Friday, Nov. 23,...
November 19th, 20180DEARBORN — Artspace, the national arts nonprofit developer, and four partners recently celebrated the development of the City Hall Artspace Lofts in Dearborn. On Nov. 13 they announced a new Arts & Technology Learning Lab inside the Connector building and memorialized a community leader, Russell J. Ebeid.
The William Davidson...
November 19th, 20180DEARBORN — Dearborn police officers were surprised to find a baby sitting next to a rifle in the back seat after pulling over a suspicious vehicle.
Four suspects – Brian Williams, 28, Vontez VcGee, 28, Ernest young, 32, and Tamara Hardin, 29, all of Detroit – face multiple firearms-related charges in the case.
The incident...
November 17th, 20180DEARBORN — Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Glenn Maleyko has been named the Superintendent of the Year by the Michigan Association of School Administrators (MASA).
MASA Executive Director Chris Wigent and Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency (Wayne RESA) Superintendent Dr. Randy Lipea delivered the news to...
November 16th, 20180DEARBORN — There have been several confirmed coyote sightings across Dearborn in recent months, some in highly-populated residential areas.
A more recent sighting was near Grindley Park.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources offered several suggestions and best practices on how to avoid conflicts with coyotes.
The...
November 12th, 20180LANSING, MIchigan– The Michigan Association of Superintendents & Administrators (MASA) today announced that Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Glenn Maleyko has earned the award of 2019 Michigan Superintendent of the Year.
“Dr. Glenn Maleyko has proven himself to be an outstanding leader for Dearborn Public...
November 9th, 20180DEARBORN — On Tuesday, long-time real estate associate broker Sam Baydoun was elected to the 13th District Wayne County Commission seat vacated by outgoing Commission Chairman Gary Woronchak. Baydoun ran unopposed and received 30,920 votes.
Woronchak, who mounted an unsuccessful run for State Senate, will step down in...
November 3rd, 20180DEARBORN— Dearborn Public School’s three high schools, Fordson, Edsel Ford, and Dearborn High School, are again collecting food for a local charity. For the first time, this year’s drive will kick off with a family friendly one- or two-mile run at Ford Field Park.
The drive runs from Nov. 12 to 16. The goal is to collect...
October 29th, 20180DEARBORN – Local businessmen and brothers turned an abandoned church on Chase Road in Dearborn into a House of Condolences that’s open to both Muslims and Christian of all denominations.
The five Bazzi brothers, Kayed, Charlie, Joe, Moussa and Ibrahim, wanted to honor the memory of their late father, Haj Jamil Bazzi, who passed...
October 28th, 20180DEARBORN – The 19th District Court announced that it has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Michigan Supreme Court to fund the day-to-day operations of the court’s Veterans’ Treatment Court (VTC). The 19th District Court is one of 24 Michigan courts awarded a grant for the state’s fiscal year that runs October 1, 2018 through...
October 26th, 20180DEARBORN— Ibrahim Souedan, a 59-year-old husband and father to five, is currently facing deportation back to his homeland of Lebanon. According to his lawyer, he has no criminal record, but Souedan was an FBI informant who helped to convict a man associated with Hezbollah, a predominately Shi’a political party based in...
October 26th, 20180DEARBORN — The Dearborn Public Library is accepting donations for its “Food for Fines” program offered Nov. 1-17.
All donated items will be given to the Dearborn Firefighters for distribution to local families in need through the Burn Drive Food Cupboard.
Donations of non-perishable, non-expired food items will be rewarded...
October 26th, 20180DEARBORN — Collection of leaves raked into the street begins the week of Oct. 29. Leaves will be collected in each area’s trash day each week through the week of Dec. 10.
Residents whose trash day is Monday will have leaves scheduled to be picked up on Monday and will follow through the rest of the week for each trash...
October 21st, 20180DEARBORN — On Tuesday, October 16, State Rep. Abdullah Hammoud (D- Dearborn) and U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D- Dearborn) joined Jocelyn Benson, the Democratic candidate for secretary of state, for a town hall meeting at the Henry Ford Centennial Library.
Hammoud and Dingell both made opening remarks.
Benson said she believes...
October 21st, 20180DEARBORN — Over the past few decades, Dearborn has become the United States’ most densely concentrated Arab American city. One defining metaphor is a “melting pot” of immigrants from around the globe, but what does it mean to city officials to represent American Arabia?
Mayor Jack O’Reilly has represented the largest Arab...
October 21st, 20182DEARBORN — Between 1995 and 2012, thousands of people visited the capital of Arab America for a taste of their homelands' cultures and a grand celebration.
The three-day Arab festival has been called the largest gathering of Arab Americans; it drew in three times Dearborn’s population of nearly 90,000. It was also a kind of...
October 19th, 20180DEARBORN – Since its founding in 1938, Henry Ford College has been touted as one of the best pathways to a higher education in the state and in bringing capital to the city. On November 6, Dearborn residents will decide whether to reinvest in the school.
By law, every Wayne County community must belong to a community college...
October 19th, 20180DEARBORN — A suspect has been arrested in the Oct. 10 beating and stabbing attack on a Dearborn psychologist.
On October 10, the Dearborn Police Department received a call from the wife of Dr. Mel Hoberman, asking them to check on her husband, who had not come home from work that evening. Officers then responded to the area of Grindly...
