34th District Court Chief Judge Brian A. Oakley approved a plea deal that dismissed half of the charges against Chase Alan Basham, 36, of Sumpter Township in exchange for guilty[…]
The River of Life Church, which moved in September from 870 Savage Rd. in Van Buren Township into a huge facility at 16650 Sumpter Rd. that needed lots of tender[…]
The Friends of the Belleville Area District Library will hold their monthly board meeting at 10 a.m. Jan. 11, in the program room of the Fred C. Fischer Library, followed[…]
The Belleville Community Chorus will begin rehearsals for its spring concert season at 7 p.m., Monday, Jan. 13, at First United Methodist Church, 417 Charles St., Belleville. This is the[…]
Jan. 5, 1995 was the day we first published the Belleville-Area Independent and distributed it, free of charge, to readers in the tri-community. We have just completed 25 years. We[…]
Chase Alan Basham, 36, of Sumpter Township was arraigned on Dec. 22 through the 34th District Court in Romulus on 16 misdemeanor counts after he was arrested for being a[…]
On Dec. 17, Van Buren Township Public Safety Department presented the 15th-annual Shop with a Hero event at the Meijer store on Belleville Road. VBT Each year, Officer Ryan Bidwell[…]
James Bernard Lang, 55, of Van Buren Township, is in the Wayne County Jail awaiting a Feb. 5 jury trial before Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Kelly Ramsey on a[…]
On Christmas Eve, Van Buren Township Fire Fighters were called to a blaze in a structure on the east side of a wall behind Dunham’s, the sporting goods store located[…]
On Saturday, Jan. 11, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Quality Inn (formerly the Comfort Inn) at 1000 Orleans Blvd. (exit 13 off I-69) in Coldwater, there will[…]