August 23rd, 20250DEARBORN – Papaya Fruit Market held the ribbon cutting ceremony for its sixth store in West Dearborn on Thursday, with local officials and community leaders in attendance, including U.S. Reps Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) and Debbie Dingell (D- Ann Arbor), Wayne County Executive Warren Evans, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, Dearborn City...
March 24th, 20230CANTON — Khalil Saad, owner of the Papaya supermarkets, has opened a fifth location in Canton.
Saad immigrated to the United States from Lebanon in 1998. He told The Arab American News the first Papaya store he opened on Warren Ave. on the Dearborn/Detroit border was originally a small shop.
He shared the story of how he was...
April 3rd, 20200DEARBORN — A strange yet familiar scene plays out at grocery stores in Dearborn on most days, one that has been commonplace since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the state reached a critical level.
Customers stand in line outside the double door, waiting for an employee in a face mask and gloves to let them in one at a time. At...
