Roger Mayfield agrees to retire
Roger Mayfield, who has been a police officer in Sumpter Township since 1994, left the police department as of March 22. Mayfield, who suffers from a medical condition, is seeking[…]
Community forum in Sumpter explains 1-mill tax
Sumpter Township Police Lt. Eric Luke led a community forum last Thursday to explain the reason the township is seeking an additional one mill of taxes for police operations. The[…]
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VBT lacks authority to approve BYC marina
Because of a 1987 license from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for French Landing Dam, Van Buren Township doesn’t have the authority to approve a marina project on Belleville Lake,[…]
Fire destroys Belleville Coin Laundry
Belleville fire fighters called for help from Van Buren, Pittsfield, and Sumpter townships and the City of Romulus to fight a fire Monday night, March 21, at Belleville Coin Laundry on[…]
Belleville DDA going out for bids on Gateway sign
The Belleville Downtown Develop-ment Authority voted unanimously to go out for bids for a new Gateway sign for the front door of the city. At the March 16 DDA[…]
Confrontation erupts after VBT board meeting
A challenge to Van Buren Township Board Trustee Philip Hart by resident Charles Tackett caused Hart to lose his cool after the March 15 board meeting and charge into the[…]
Ramone Crowe elected chairman of VBT Public Safety Comm.
The Van Buren Township Public Safety Committee elected Ramone Crowe as its new chairman on a 3-2 vote at the group’s monthly meeting on March 2. The former chairman Michael[…]
School Board hires negotiating attorney, keeps eye on finances
There are four bargaining units whose contracts are not settled at the Van Buren Public Schools, a looming June 30 deadline for creation of a balanced budget, and a projected[…]
City Council gets clean audit, discouraging news for coming year
The Belleville City Council got a clean audit report on the $2,342,000 budget ending June 30, 2010, but received some disheartening news about what to expect for the coming 2011-12[…]
Belleville Fire Department Captain Bill Emerson, right, has retired
At the Feb. 22 meeting of the City Council, Fire Chief Lee Grant, left, presented Emerson with his captain’s helmet and applauded his hard work on behalf of the community.[…]
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