Stier's owners still owe 2010 and 2011 taxes to Macomb County and the building itself has been closed by order of the Macomb Township Fire Department.
Stier’s Hardware & Power Equipment at 22 Mile Road and Romeo Plank is a familiar sight for Macomb Township residents, but whether the business is open, closed or abandoned is probably a mystery for most. More than 100 years old, Stier’s Hardware was one of the first businesses established in what is now “historic Waldenburg,” the community around Romeo Plank and 22 Mile Road named and settled by German immigrants in the 1830s. Owned and operated by generations of the Stier family, the business fell behind on its taxes in 2009 and was listed by Macomb County as a tax delinquent property. Despite recent payment of its 2009 taxes, the business will not be taken off this list until its 2010 and 2011 taxes are paid. According to the Macomb …
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Stier's Hardware & Power Equipment
48980 Romeo Plank Rd, Macomb, MI
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As of June 14, the end of the 2011-12 academic year, the MISD had identified 1,126 homeless students across the county. This represents a more than 100 percent increase over the past five years.
As teachers across Macomb County compute final grades for the 2011-12 school year, the Macomb Intermediate School District is considering the implications of a much different calculation, namely, the now record number of homeless students in the county. At the end of 2011, 665 homeless students were identified and assisted by the MISD—a then 41 percent increase over the previous year. However, as of June 14, the close of the 2011-12 academic year, the MISD had identified 1,126 homeless students who will need assistance for fall 2012. Those students represent some 537 Macomb County families with approximately 2,065 members, including parents and children below school age. More than 80 percent of these families have never been homeless …
With reductions in state welfare, homeless children and their families will rely more on local agencies and school districts for aid in the new year.
Home to sprawling suburbs, shopping centers and Blue Ribbon schools, Macomb County does not fit the description of an area to know homelessness. But it does. In the four school districts that serve Macomb Township, 206 students were reported as homeless by the Michigan Department of Education in 2011. In the county, 665 homeless students have been identified and assisted by the Macomb Intermediate School District this year—a 41 percent increase over last year said MISD Homeless Education Liaison Kathleen Kropf. And though the term “homeless” may summon images of cardboard boxes beneath freeway overpasses, the 2002 McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (Subtitle VII-B) defines “homeless children and youth” only as those who lack “a fixed…
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Macomb Charitable Foundation
18215 24 Mile Rd, Macomb, MI
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Emily Eckert Happell
9:32 am on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The dance hall was on the second floor of the Dopp Brothers building (which currently holds the liquor store at the northwest corner of 22 and Romeo Plank,) not in the Stier's building. more ›