Bethany Christian School graduate Jacob King of Sterling Heights has been awarded a $1,000 Law Enforcement Education Program (LEEP) Dream Scholarship. He is among 22 top students who will receive[…]
After discussing the poor investment of $25,000 a year the Van Buren Township Downtown Development Authority has been making since 2009 to Aerotropolis, the DDA decided to give it one[…]
Maxine Heifner, who in 1994 first had the idea to start a new newspaper in Belleville to tell both sides of the story, died Sunday at the age of 85.[…]
A Black Lives Matter peaceful protest was planned for the Belleville High School home football game against Lincoln High School on Friday – and it went off as promised: peacefully.[…]
The city of Belleville Downtown Development Authority voted unanimously at its Oct. 19 meeting to provide six new outdoor sculptures for the DDA district for the 2017 season. DDA Coordinator[…]
From 5:30-11 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12, a dinner and live auction — called That’s Amore XII — will raise funds for C.S. Mott’s Children’s Hospital Pediatric Leukemia Research at[…]
At the Oct. 18 meeting of the Van Buren Township Board of Trustees, VBT Treasurer Sharry Budd read the following statement: “In response to the Belleville-Area Independent in the Oct.[…]
On Friday, State Representative Bill LaVoy, D-Monroe, issued this statement on protecting Second Amendment rights: “I am disappointed in my Democratic colleagues, namely Rep. Wittenberg, for introducing misguided legislation that[…]
An event at Sandhill Crane Vineyard in Jackson from 11:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 12 will raise funds for Friends of Michigan Animals Rescue, based in Sumpter Township.[…]
The misdemeanor charge of aggravated assault against Cynthia Elizabeth Richards, 24, of Van Buren Township was reduced to a charge of disorderly person after a lively Oct. 19 trial with[…]