At its regular meeting Nov. 21, the Van Buren Township Board of Trustees voted unanimously to opt out of the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act that legally provides for cultivation,[…]
The Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education wants local control over its school campuses and doesn’t want the state to usurp that contol and allow those carrying firearms there,[…]
A crash on I-275 involving three vehicles on Nov. 21 in Van Buren Township killed a Sterling Heights man and critically injured another driver. Michigan State Police said the crash[…]
Savage Elementary School wants to help feed its students who will have no food over the winter break, so it is holding a food drive. From Nov. 27 through Dec.[…]
On Thanksgiving Day it is again time to count our many blessings. Actually, it helps one’s physical and mental health to be conscious of what is right around us daily.[…]
Gene Taylor, retired Belleville Police Chief and current part-time officer in the Village of Carleton, was honored with a special Outstanding Achievement Award plaque on Nov. 17 at the Michigan[…]
Van Buren Township Supervisor Kevin McNamara said Waste Management contacted him recently and asked for a township board vote on the expansion of the Woodland Meadows landfill on the northeastern[…]
“Last year Waste Management pushed in December and wanted an agreement,” Matthew Best told the Van Buren Township Environmental Commission at its Nov. 15 meeting. Best, deputy director of planning[…]
Bill Houston of Atlanta was presented with the Volunteer of the Year Award from the Michigan Nature Association on Oct. 27 in East Lansing. “I was surprised, humbled, and honored,”[…]
Sumpter Township Fire Fighter Rick Sliwa was among employees honored for service at the Nov. 14 meeting of the township board. Sliwa was given a certificate marking 40 years of[…]