The Belleville-Area Independent won two awards in the 2019 Michigan Press Association Better Newspaper Contest. The awards were announced March 12. Members of the Montana Press Association reviewed 3,500 entries[…]
On March 11 at 34th District Court, Justin Cleeve Johnson, 17, of Van Buren Township, who was charged with unauthorized driving away of a motor vehicle on Nov. 25 in[…]
News release from Van Buren Township In an effort to reduce the spread and exposure of COVID-19, the Van Buren Township Board of Trustees voted to shut down all township[…]
Registration is open for Youth Dance Day, a low-cost spring event hosted by Young Dancers Initiative, the educational arm under the umbrella of local non-profit dance company, Jodie Randolph Dance.[…]
The March 10 regular meeting of the Belleville Area District Library Board was in its new meeting room in the brand-new library for the first time. The Rotary Club had[…]
The counties of Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne passed the renewal millage for the Detroit Institute of Arts in the March 10 election, including those voters in the tri-communities of Belleville,[…]
Joshua Burger’s jury conviction for setting his own business on fire was overturned by the Michigan Court of Appeals on Feb. 25 after he already had served 15 months in[…]
McBride Middle School will be presenting this year’s play “Hotel Escargot” on Thursday, March 19 and Friday, March 20 at 6 p.m. and on Saturday, March 21 at noon. Tickets[…]
Editor’s Note: The following story ran in the March 12 Belleville-Area Independent, but on the afternoon of March 11, after the newspaper was printed, it was decided not to hold[…]
The Conference of Western Wayne (CWW), an association of 18 chief elected local officials in Michigan’s largest county, announced today that it has selected its new 2020 leadership team –[…]