To buy a $35 T-shirt to help pay for the giant football helmet ordered to celebrate Belleville High School state football champions, go to: https://www.gianthelmet.com/football-helmet-fundraisers/giant-football-helmet-1-belleville-high-school There are only 300 T-shirts[…]
A juvenile male, now 17, of Van Buren Township, has been charged with second-degree murder and reckless driving causing serious bodily injury in a Feb. 7, 2021 crash on Belleville[…]
On Sunday, March 20, at 10:24 a.m., a Nixel alert was sent out by Van Buren Township police for motorists to avoid Hannan Road between the South I-94 Service Drive[…]
The Belleville High School boys’ basketball team is heading to the semi-final game for the Michigan High School Athletic Association championship at 2 p.m. Friday, March 25, at the Breslin[…]
Van Buren Township fire fighters were called to a structure fire at 48255 Bayshore Drive at about 1 p.m. March 21 and when they arrived it was a working fire[…]
“We are very happy to announce that the new Belleville ordinance to allow golf carts to be operated on certain city-owned streets in Belleville goes into effect on March 24,[…]
An updated maintenance and service-provider agreement between the Belleville Downtown Development Authority and the City of Belleville — that brings more than two and a half times the amount back[…]
Frank Broughton sent us an email to inform us we had printed some inaccurate information in our March 17 edition. He explained: “As I was reading through your story about[…]
During the regular meeting of the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education on March 21, Becky Ross, director of the recently constructed Early Childhood Development Center, gave a presentation[…]
The Belleville-Area Independent won a feature-writing award in its category in the 2021 Better Newspaper contest put on by the Michigan Press Association. The awards were announced on March 17.[…]