On Page 10 in the March 31 issue of the Independent, we quoted Sumpter Township Financial Director Jim Glahn, CPA, on the budgets under discussion. The General Fund did well,[…]
Nicholas Eller of Sumpter Township, a junior at Arbor Prepatory High School, is a delegate to the Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders in Lowell, Massachusetts, June 29-July 1.[…]
Longtime Van Buren Township residents Mickey Widener, wife Linda, son Lee (a 1986 Belleville High School graduate) and his wife Nikki attended the City of Riverview Hall of Fame and[…]
The city of Belleville has finally sold three old police cars – and it sold them all to the same bidder: Karen Kubit, who lives on West Wabash Street in[…]
Sumpter Township has invited a representative from Republic Waste to come to its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 12, to talk about recycling with township residents. Republic is[…]
Steven P. Hudock, assistant principal of Huron High School in New Boston since 2012, has been named 2016 Assistant Principal of the Year by the Michigan Association of Secondary School[…]
The Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education recently selected the Michigan Association of School Boards to help with conducting its search for the district’s new superintendent. Residents of the[…]
The head of a national group supporting the use of coal tar in driveway sealing said she will be at today’s 7 p.m. meeting in Van Buren Township. The township[…]
Helen Lyson, 90, chaperoned by her daughter Jane Vesche, joined 42 other Rosie the Riveters in an Honor Flight to Washington, D.C. on March 22. Lyson said that morning the[…]
The Van Buren Township Downtown Development Authority, at its March 22 regular meeting, unanimously approved having Wade Trim engineers prepare a grant application for funds for a pedestrian bridge over[…]