Melvindale

By Sue Suchyta MELVINDALE – The summer Safety Town program now is enrolling 4- through 6-year-olds for its two-week summer program. Registration forms are available at City Hall. Class sessions will be held in the morning and afternoon Aug. 2 through 13 at the fire station, 3160 Oakwood Blvd. Sessions run from 9 to 11 a.m. and noon to 2 p.m. A $20 fee is requested from Melvindale and Allen Park residents, $30 from nonresidents. However, scholarships are available if needed. The interactive program teaches preschool … [Read more...] about Safety Town program now accepting enrollments

By Sue Suchyta MELVINDALE – Hiram Masonic Lodge 110 will bring the Michigan Child Identification Program to the Melvindale Days Festival. The service will be available from noon to 8 p.m. June 10 through 13 at the Melvindale Ice Arena, 4300 S. Dearborn St. The information and material gathered is not kept by the Masons, but is given to parents, who sign a permission slip retained by the group. There is no charge for the service. MICHIP is sponsored by the Michigan Masons and uses a defined “Masonic Model” called … [Read more...] about Masons to provide free child ID program at city festival

By SUE SUCHYTA Sunday Times Newspapers MELVINDALE – A local bar got some help last week from city officials to serve customers who have been going outside to smoke. The City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a special use request from the White Rhino Sports Bar, 4328 Oakwood, for an outdoor patio with dining service. However, the resolution gives police broad discretion to close the patio whenever they see fit. The council’s move came after carefully reviewing the restrictions inserted by the Planning Commission to … [Read more...] about Bar’s outdoor patio cautiously approved

By SUE SUCHYTA Sunday Times Newspapers MELVINDALE – Police still are seeking the cab driver who fled the scene of a nonfatal hit-and-run accident involving a young girl on a bicycle April 30. Witnesses say that at about at 4:30 p.m. the cab, black, possibly a Ford Crown Victoria, with a yellow taxi light on top, struck the rear tire of the girl’s bicycle, throwing her onto the roadside grass and injuring her as she attempted to cross Oakwood at Palmer. The girl, who was following her sister, who also was bicycling at the … [Read more...] about Cab driver involved in hit-and-run sought

By SUE SUCHYTA Sunday Times Newspapers MELVINDALE – Police caught a resident shortly after he allegedly attempted to steal a radio from a semitruck at Melvindale Market, 17973 Allen Road. Donald Little, 47, was found by Patrolman John Thompson just before 2 a.m. Monday as he was walking away from a white semitruck while carrying portable electronic equipment. He said he worked at a truck driving school in Allen Park and the items belonged to his boss. When questioned by an officer he said he denied taking the … [Read more...] about Over and out: Police make quick catch of alleged radio thief

By SUE SUCHYTA Sunday Times Newspapers MELVINDALE – One of the city’s longest-tenured public servants is calling it quits. City Council members recently recognized Clare Pavluk’s retirement after 53 years as a member of the Library Commission. An English major with a business minor at Caldwell College in New Jersey, Pavluk, said she answered then-Mayor William Radak’s call to join the commission in February 1957, when the library was situated in a storefront on Oakwood. She later help set up the rules and policies for the … [Read more...] about New chapter: Library commissioner retires after 53 years