James, Cheryl Wagner celebrate 50th wedding anniversary
James and Cheryl Wagner are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on June 22. They were married at the First United Methodist Church in Belleville by the Revered Joy Arthur. Their[…]
DiversAbility Day is June 22 in Lower Huron Metropark
In collaboration with Detroit Medical Center-RIM Foundation SportsAbility, join the Lower Huron Metropark at the Woods Creek picnic area on Thursday, June 22, for DiversAbility Day, an outdoor adaptive recreation[…]
Court Watching: Sumpter hit-and-run driver with 2 fatalities due in court June 28
David Armando Palacios-Sanchez, 44, of Detroit, was present before 34th District Court Judge Lisa Martin by zoom from the Wayne County Jail on June 14 for his probable cause conference[…]
VBT board approves Visteon settlement at special meeting
After a 35-minute closed-door session on June 13 with attorney Rick Berg, the Van Buren Township Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve a resolution to settle the year’s-long dispute[…]
Editorial: Thank you, Enrica, for more than four decades of service
A pretty Italian girl in Germany met up with a GI at a U.S. Army night club and in two weeks they were married. This is the beginning of the[…]
VBT approves Behavior Clinician, FUSUS for police department
After a 34-minute workshop session on June 6 to discuss embedding a Behavior Clinician in the Van Buren Township Police Department, the township board went into regular session and approved[…]
VBPS Education Foundation donates $21,000 to schools
Alicia Pitt and Connie Testorelli , representing the Van Buren Public Schools Education Foundation, presented a check for $21,000 to schools and teachers for special projects. Six schools each received[…]
VBPS school board spends first hour of meeting on accolades
At the June 12 regular meeting of the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education, the board spent the first hour on accolades for students and retiring teachers and the[…]
School board approves $213,891.08 for security cameras, infrastructure
At the May 30 meeting of the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education, the board approved technology infrastructure and security cameras for Edgemont Elementary and Rawsonville Elementary Schools in[…]
Court Watching: Shawn Fix of Sumpter pleads guilty in plot to kidnap governor
BELLAIRE, MI – Shawn Fix of Sumpter Township pled guilty on June 7 to aiding a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor. This was in Antrim County 13th Circuit Court. The[…]
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