VBT board considers four-day week, 10-hr. day for employees
A poll of directors and salaried staff at Van Buren Township showed that 70% would like to change their five-day work weeks to four days, working 10 hours a day,[…]
Court Watching: Suspect in murders of VBT mother, daughter arrested in prison
Lionel Lamont Vincent, 48, of Pontiac was arraigned and had a probable cause conference May 4 on two counts of first-degree premeditated murder on July 25, 2021 in Van Buren[…]
Court Watching: Attorney announces insanity defense for Ray Bailey murder charges
On March 17, the attorney for Raymond Lee Bailey, 38, of Wyandotte, who is charged with murdering four people in Sumpter Township on Aug. 15, 2020, gave circuit court notice[…]
Five new Belleville High School Distinguished Graduates
On Friday, April 29, five people were inducted as Belleville High School Distinguished Graduates. The 2019-20 Distinguished Graduates are the late Alan Summer, class of 1968, who was represented by[…]
Editorial: Beautiful Belleville Lake? Just don’t eat the fish
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has released the newest Eat Safe Fish Guide, the pamphlet that is supposed to be given to people who buy their fishing[…]
Belleville DDA considers $25,000 ‘partnership’ with Lake Fest/Chamber
Alicia McGovern, chairperson of the Belleville Downtown Development Authority, proposed a “partnership” with Lake Fest and Belleville Area Chamber of Commerce with a donation of $25,000. She said this was[…]
Court Watching: Ariyah Bennett faces six charges after melee at Shell gas station in VBT
Ariyah Kela Bennett, 26, of Ypsilanti is facing six charges after her arrest following a melee on April 26 at the Clark gas station at the corner of Belleville Road[…]
VBT approves program to provide cyber security
“We deal in restful nights and warm, cuddly feelings,” Kevin Fullerton, president of ThinkGard, told the Van Buren Township Board of Trustees at its workshop meeting on April 19. The[…]
Editorial: Looks like Belleville is joining the troubled world
Last year there was an arrest of a man who lived in an apartment on Wexford Street in the City of Belleville. He had drugs of all kinds, scales and[…]
Five students detained at BHS, one with loaded gun in book bag
Van Buren Township police responded to a call concerning a vehicle that had just been stolen from Briarwood Subdivision, off nearby Elwell Road, in the early afternoon of Thursday, April[…]
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