1 n The Official Hamtramck City Business Directory n 2021 — City of Hamtramck — City Hall........................................................................(313) 800-5233 3401 Evaline Hrs. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. General Admin General Number: ....................(313) 800-5233 Public Services: Water, Rubbish & Streets Ext 817 Building Department: Ext 296 Code Enforcement: Ext 3 28 Income Tax Dept: Ext 363 Assessor’s Office: Ext 820 Treasurer’s Office: Ext 822 Clerk’s Office: Ext 821 Human Resources Dept: Ext 348 City Manager’s Office: Ext 361 Community and Economic Development: Ext 316 Community Safety & Services: Ext 327 Police - General Number ....................(313) 800-5281 EMERGENCY 911 Dispatch Desk: Ext 501 Handicap Signs I.D. & Traffic: Ext 403 Narco Tip Line: Ext 317 Fire - General Number ....................(313) 305-4503 EMERGENCY 911 Fire Non-Emergency: Ext 221 Fire Marshal: Ext 225 Fire Chief: Ext 222 31st Court - General Number: ....................(313) 800-5248 Traffic/Criminal Clerks: Ext 812 Civil Clerk: Ext 280 Probation Officer: Ext 281 Library General Number: ....................(313) 733-6821 State of Michigan Secretary of State 9001 Joseph Campau ....................(313) 872-4396 Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society 13569 Joseph Campau ....................(313) 891-7188 U.S. Federal Government Social Security Administration 60 East Grand Ave., Highland Park, MI 48203 ..........(800) 772-1213 U.S. Post Office 2933 Caniff ....................(313) 891-7817 ur community, our nation, and the entire Oworld experienced a very difficult year in 2020. 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For Hamtramck, By Charles Sercombe police offi- tal ball and gaze into the it would have been a fi- Hamtramck bbed future – the year 2020, to nancially devastating cers once again na be exact. blow because, under the armed robbery crews. Just what news and is- terms of a special deal, Last Friday, there were sues can we expect in GM paid the city about two incidents involving Quick Hits the coming 12 months? $700,000 a year in lieu suspects using a black As usual, plenty of the of property taxes. Chevy Impala as a get- MLK Day issues that will remain A small portion of the away vehicle. ongoing are leftovers plant straddles the Ham- Will 2020 be the year that city and school officials secure a The first incident in- aper of Record" celebration from 2019. tramck side of the Detroit multi-million-dollar grant to renovate Hamtramck Stadium? volved two suspects at- of many issues the city will face this year. at HHS center One issue that received border. That’s just one tempting an armed a lot of attention last year Losing that amount of robbery in the afternoon By Alan Madlane was the future of the GM money might seem like a City manager outlines her in the area of Ellery and If you’re looking for a Poletown plant, and its fi- drop in the bucket for the Caniff. way to celebrate, honor goals for the new year nancial impact to the city. City of Detroit, but in They picked on the or remember Dr. Martin "Hamtramck's Official P It’s still on the top of Hamtramck, it would You’ve read what we anced budget for 2020- wrong victim. Luther King, Jr. or his the list of things to have crippled us. think will be the top is- 21 That person, when told legacy, Hamtramck’s got watch. GM eventually did a sues for this year, and • Solving MERS pen- to hand over his money, . your back Last year, there was a turnabout on the plant now it’s City Manager sion obligation increase explained to them he Concerned The scare that GM would ac- and saved it. Kathy Angerer’s turn. • Infrastructure im- simply had none. For f Hamtramck Women o tually follow through on But… and in this case, Here are her top is- provements: Road, that, the victim was pis- again has once its announcement of but is not a good thing… sues: water and sewer lines tol whipped, and then the yer arranged for a pra closing the plant, along the plant will be closed • Bringing jobs back on Holbrook from Jos. suspects fled. breakfast on MLK day, with four other North for up to two years while to the Detroit-Ham- Campau to Lumpkin, Javan Jackson, 18, of this coming Monday, American plants. it retools in order to even- tramck GM Assembly and on Caniff from I-75 Detroit, was charged with January 20, from 9 to That was truly a bomb- tually produce electric-fu- Plant to Jos. Campau that assault along with 11:30 a.m. shell, considering GM Continued on page 2 • Adopting a bal- Continued on page 2 other felony charged that It will be their 23rd an- include: Armed Robbery ou all the nual such event, this involving a serious injury; time titled “Legacy Past assault with Intent to do & Present.” It will be Raymond Wojtowicz: great bodily harm less held at the Hamtramck than murder; carrying a Community Center at A voice of reason concealed weapon, as- 11350 Charest St., the By Greg Kowalski Wojtowicz, who died sault with a dangerous view brings y just south of e building “Where did the money last week after serving weapon, felony firearm. Hamtramck High go?” as mayor and then hav- Jackson was the only The R School. If you were in Ham- ing a remarkably suc- once charged in that at- In addition to the tramck exactly 50 years cessfully career outside tempted robbery and as- breakfast, there will be ago, you would be famil- of Hamtramck, was virtu- sault. a talent contest for stu- iar with that question. It ally a political outsider in Later in the day, the ou need about our dents of the eight Ham- was the slogan that pro- 1970 when he joined the four suspects were seen tramck public schools pelled Raymond Wojtow- mayoral race. Elections stealing packages from (Hamtramck High, icz into the mayor’s chair were held in the early porches in the area of Kosciuszko Middle in Hamtramck. spring back then, with Mackay and Pulaski. ORE! School, Dickinson West, In the winter of 1969- the primary election held They once again made ormation y Dickinson East, Hol- 1970, Wojtowicz tapped in February. their getaway in an Im- inf brook Elementary, Tau into the frustrations of It was a time of tremen- pala. UCH M Beta School, Early many Hamtramckans dous political turmoil in Officers caught up with od Elementary, Childho Raymond Wojtowicz, who died Jan.8, was a former who were watching their Hamtramck as the city them and pulled them chool). UCH, M and Horizon S Hamtramck mayor and went on to be Wayne County hometown sink into fi- teetered on the edge of over. Continued on page 2 Treasurer for many years. nancial ruin. Continued on page 4 Continued on page 2 en Chick Best city – AND M affles & W Ribs in esidents in $ 699 Town! , Burger Beer HAPPY ea.