The Belleville Community Chorus is beginning rehearsals for spring concerts in its 16th season. Rehearsals started at 7 p.m., Monday, Jan. 23, at First United Methodist Church, 417 Charles St.,[…]
Van Buren Township News Release Van Buren Township invites the public to the official ground-breaking ceremony of the Community Center at 3 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 31. Construction has already begun[…]
Readers have been walking around town searching in business after business for last week’s paper. The papers were gone from our newspaper box in front of our office and gone[…]
The Van Buren Township Board of Trustees held a special, one-hour meeting on Jan. 10 to interview three candidates for the trustee position left vacant by the election of Trustee[…]
At the end of a three-hour meeting on Jan. 10, the Van Buren Township Board of Zoning Appeals voted unanimously to postpone a decision on the Belleville Yacht Club’s request[…]
At the end of a three-and-a-half-hour meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 11, the Van Buren Township Planning Commission unanimously postponed action on the Belleville Yacht Club’s proposal to be designated as[…]
An 89-year-old Sumpter Township man died when his car was hit by a train on Rawsonville Road between Willis and Bemis roads in Augusta Township at about 1:45 p.m., Wednesday,[…]
At 8:36 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, Michigan time, Jim Wigginton of Van Buren Township sent the Independent a message: “DONE. NEW WORLD RECORD: 7 jumps, all 7 continents in 6[…]
Belleville High School swimmer Thomas Okubo qualified for the Boys Division 1 state meet on Saturday in the 100-yard Butterfly with a time of 54.59. The state meet will be[…]
Tiger Drama will present the second-annual “Random Acts of Theater: A Night of Student-Directed Scenes” at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20, and Saturday, Jan. 21. Tiger Drama Director, Belleville High[…]