Steve Jones, president of the Belleville Area Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Belleville Planning Commission, asked the Belleville DDA to relocate a tree on Fourth Street Square to[…]
According to the schedule released by the state the absentee ballots should be on their way any minute to local clerks who will then be sending them out to voters[…]
There are 17 candidates running for seven positions on the Sumpter Township Board of Trustees. The Aug. 4 primary election will whittle that down to nine candidates: seven Democrats and[…]
The absentee ballots for the Aug. 4 primary election are expected to be mailed out this week and so the Independent is providing the responses candidates gave to our questionnaires[…]
Van Buren Township police officials gave a detailed report on their department’s arrests for the past two years following the June 12 march against police brutality that ended up at[…]
Vesta Losen of Van Buren Township was reelected president of the Keystone Academy Board of Directors at its annual meeting held as a virtual Google Meet on May 14. Losen[…]
At about 9:47 p.m. Saturday, June 20, six motorcycles were eastbound on Bemis Road west of Renton Road when several deer entered the roadway and the lead cyclist was unable[…]
The Southwestern Wayne (County) Democratic Club will hold an on-line Zoom meeting at 7 p.m., Thursday, June 25, with special guest speaker Wayne County Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy, who is[…]
The Conference of Western Wayne mayors and supervisors, Western Wayne County police chiefs, and Western Wayne County NAACP have announced their “Partnerships for Progress Listening Tour.” The tour is a[…]
“At French Landing, there are no problems,” said Mark Gross, senior vice president of operations at Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, which runs the dam owned by Van Buren Township. Gross[…]