Court Watching: Defendant gets 18 charges dropped in plea deal on larceny
Djuna Lynn Garbo pled guilty to a new reduced charge of larceny under $200 and the charge of identity theft and 17 other counts were dismissed at 34th District Court[…]
Court Watching: Koenig gets plea deal at Frank Murphy with probation, work detail
On March 23, Paul Koenig, 49, of Van Buren Township entered into a plea agreement at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice and was sentenced to a year’s probation, serving[…]
Court Watching: James Chapman gets 183 days in jail for trespassing incidents
James Forrest Chapman, 45122 Hull Road, Van Buren Township, was sentenced by 34th District Court Judge David Parrott to 183 days in jail and taken into custody on March 17[…]
Belleville DDA awards bid for Horizon Park project to Blue Ribbon
Four bids for construction of the Horizon Park kayak launch and attendant projects were opened by Dave Vallier of Spicer Engineers at the Feb. 18 meeting of the Belleville Downtown[…]
VB School Board gives Supt. Van Tassel ‘highly effective’ rating
The Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education gave School Supt. Michael Van Tassel the top “highly effective” annual rating for his work at its regular meeting March 16. Supt.[…]
Court Watching: Preliminary exam on accused embezzler to continue April 8
Preliminary exams were set for March 18 before 34th District Court Judge David Parrott for two co-defendants accused of multiple 20-year felonies — embezzling almost $2 million from Archer Corporate[…]
Installation of emergency sirens begins in Van Buren Township
By Gregory M. Laurain Director of Public Safety Van Buren Township We are happy to announce that all outside equipment has been delivered to our vendor (West Shore Services Inc.)[…]
Kathie Steigerwald named Woman of Achievement
At its March 2 meeting, the Belleville Area Women’s Club honored Kathie Steigerwald as its Member of Achievement for 2015. Steigerwald is a Pre-Needs Consultant at the David C. Brown[…]
Here’s how we came up with the total cost to VBT on the salary list
By Diane Madigan After several questions about the 2014 Van Buren Township transparency report and actual cost to the township, we thought we would go into further detail on the[…]
After going out for bids, Belleville decides to stay with present planners
The Belleville City Council accepted a recommendation from City Manager Diana Kollmeyer to keep its present planning consultants, although the city had gone out for bids and its planners didn’t[…]
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