Savage School collects food to help students eat during winter break
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.[…]
Editorial: Thanksgiving Day is a time to count our many blessings
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 presented with Outstanding Achievement Award
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[…]
Waste Management asks VBT to vote on expansion of landfill
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[…]
VBT Environmental Commission warned about landfill agreement
“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 named Volunteer of the Year by Michigan Nature Ass’n
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 honors Rick Sliwa, other employees, Nov. 14
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[…]
Sumpter Township honors employees at Oct. 24 meeting
At its Oct. 24 meeting, the Sumpter Township Board of Trustees honored Johnny Krushlin for 30 years of service in the township Water Department, as well as 32 years as[…]
Sumpter marijuana committee to meet on Dec. 6, Jan. 3
A Sumpter Township committee — appointed to determine the facts of the new state medical marijuana law that legally provides for cultivation, dispensaries, secure transportation, and compliance facilities — continues[…]
VBT LDFA approves 2018 budget, including $100,000 for lawyers
At a 17-minute meeting on Nov. 15, the Van Buren Township Local Development Finance Authority approved its 2018 proposed budget and reviewed the new 129-page orientation packet prepared by planning[…]
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