Ronald McDonald House – Ann Arbor recognizes the Belleville-area community for its generosity through the Round-Up for Ronald McDonald House program at the Rawsonville Road McDonald’s. The restaurant, owned and[…]
We are publishing fewer pages each week these days because our advertising numbers are down. We only print as many pages as we can afford to pay for and so[…]
Lori Day of Van Buren Township and Pete Pitzen of Belleville will serve as the Grand Marshals of Belleville’s Memorial Day parade at 10 a.m. Monday, May 25. The parade[…]
McBride Middle School math teacher Paige Fordice was presented with the Kiwanis Employee of the Year Award at the May 11 meeting of the Van Buren Public Schools Board of[…]
A 31-foot-tall band tower for the Belleville High School football field was described at the May 11 meeting of the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education. The project cost[…]
Dell Deaton Contributing Writer Some 70 people gathered at the downtown library May 7 for “a meeting about keeping your local newspaper.” It’s a challenge that has two big parts.[…]
Master of ceremonies at the May 7 meeting to discuss the Independent was Harry Van Gelder, who also is a member of the nonprofit Belleville Newspaper Foundation board. He said[…]
The Van Buren Township Board of Trustees unanimously denied special land use permits for El Car Wash and an accompanying drive-thru restaurant at 10525 Belleville Rd., next to Westlake Apartments.[…]
In the editor’s column on page 4 in the May 7 issue of the Independent, we reported that the proposed office for the new Belleville fire chief would cost $85,000[…]
The Belleville Downtown Development Authority committee considering what to do about the vacant hardware store at 458 Main St. that the DDA purchased, has decided it should be sold. At[…]