Belleville High School wrestlers Demond Harrison, Landon Pepper, and Austin Martin all qualified for the Wrestling State Finals at Ford Field on March 4 and 5. The BHS Boys Bowling[…]
A temporary concrete batch plant with three, large temporary structures will be put in place on 10 acres of landfill property east of the Ecorse/I-275 northbound on ramp. At the[…]
The Sumpter Township Board of Trustees unanimously passed the first reading of an ordinance amendment that allows the growing of medical marijuana in Light Industrial and General Industrial zoned districts,[…]
At the Feb. 14 meeting of the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education, the board: • Approved the hiring of non-instructional employees: Charles Johnson as custodian as of Jan.[…]
On Feb. 11, during half time at the Belleville High School basketball game, the BHS Athletic Department celebrated both the 2020 and 2021 inductees into the Belleville Athletics Hall of[…]
On Tuesday morning, the Belleville Fire Department was called to 451 W. Columbia Ave. for a fire alarm at the school district’s new Early Childhood Development Center. It turns out[…]
On Feb. 16 at about 9:34 a.m., Van Buren Township police officers were dispatched to Tyler Elementary School to investigate a possible kidnapping/child abduction. Van Buren Township Police Chief Jason[…]
A Van Buren Public Schools school bus was rear-ended by a Van Buren Township police car just before 7 a.m. on southbound Belleville Road on the bridge over I-94. Damage[…]
At the Feb. 15 meeting of the Van Buren Township Board of Trustees the board approved Supervisor Kevin McNamara’s three reappointments to the Downtown Development Authority, with terms to expire[…]
On page 3 of the Feb. 17 Independent, we reported that Sumpter Township Trustee Peggy Morgan voted “no” on the Feb. 8 motion to have the county look into a[…]