Pam Fleming and Craig Bird delivered 14 boxes of food from the Van Buren Township/Belleville Goodfellows to the Emergency Food Closet housed at Belleville First United Methodist Church, 417 Charles[…]
Howard Puchalsky, an artist from Van Buren Township, recently carved and painted an eagle sculpture and presented it to the Van Buren Police Department on Dec. 21. Van Buren Township[…]
Santas are everywhere in the tri-community this year. We’ve had Santas for children, for dogs, for a hair salon and fire hall. And, often there are free pictures with Santa.[…]
Police came from Belleville and Van Buren Township to deal with a fight that started just after 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 8, in the parking lot at the Belleville[…]
Antrim County Circuit Court Judge Charles Hamlyn sentenced Shawn Michael Fix, 41, of Sumpter Township to 3-20 years in prison. Fix’s co-defendant Brian Higgins of Wisconsin was sentenced to 36[…]
The following letter was sent on Dec. 1 to residents and property owners on Haggerty Road in Van Buren Township. It is from the Wayne County Public Services Department concerning[…]
At the Dec. 18 regular meeting of the Belleville City Council, City Manager Jason Smith announced the city had advertised for bids to replace the leaking city hall roof and[…]
At its regular meeting on Dec. 13, the Van Buren Township Planning Commission granted final site plan approval for Zippy Auto Wash at 11600 Belleville Rd., on the west side[…]
McBride First Tech Challenge Team 14670 robotics team ranked ninth in its division at the First in Michigan State Championship recently at the Macomb Community College Sports and Expo Center.[…]
On page 15 in the Dec. 14 edition of the Independent, we identified Tammy Dohring with the wrong title. She is Deputy Director of Community Services for Van Buren Township.[…]