Van Buren Township resident Reg Ion addressed the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education on Monday asking board members about letting the community use the facilities they paid for[…]
On Aug. 9, a large number of students gathered at Belleville High School for a candlelight vigil in memory of their classmate Dacara Leatherberry, 14, who was murdered July 25[…]
Masks for students will be optional when they return to school Aug. 30 in the Van Buren Public Schools. At Monday’s school board meeting, School Supt. Pete Kudlak said he[…]
Frank Rewold & Sons of Rochester was selected out of eight bids to be the construction manager for the new Van Buren Township community center. The VBT Board of Trustees[…]
Sharon Claytor Peters of Van Buren Township has been appointed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to the Early Childhood Investment Corporation executive committee. “I am really thrilled to be back engaged[…]
On July 15, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. proclaimed National Atomic Veterans Day as July 16, 2021. On June 8, 2017, the Michigan Senate passed a resolution recognizing July 16,[…]
Belleville City Manager/Police Chief Dave Robinson told members of the Downtown Development Authority that since the Independent put the proposal to use goats to trim the banks along Belleville Lake[…]
On Monday, Aug. 9, at about 5:35 p.m., the Belleville Police Department was dispatched to a residence on Menlo Park on a report of a breaking and entering that had[…]
Jonathon Glenn Wilson, now aged 36, called the Independent last week to report that in 2018 a Wayne County Circuit Court jury found him not guilty of three first-degree criminal[…]
Among the two-dozen people appointed to the Task Force on Juvenile Justice Reform by Governor Gretchen Whitmer was Everette L. Robbins, II, chief of police and director of public safety[…]