Josh Bryan Rigor, a basketball student-athlete from Belleville High School, has been selected by Student Athletic World to represent the United States in the United World Games, an international sporting[…]
This has been a difficult year for everyone with the coronavirus, vaccinations and masks, civil unrest, school shootings and threats and inflation. We are at Christmas now and people are[…]
The following were judged winners in the 2021 Holiday Lighting Contest in the City of Belleville. Council members did the judging. The winners were honored at the Dec. 20 council[…]
At the Dec. 20 regular, in-person meeting of the Belleville City Council, two long-time police corporals were sworn in as sergeants and then presented with their new badges. City Manager/Police[…]
At its Dec. 14 zoom meeting, the Sumpter Township Board of Trustees appointed Trustee Tim Rush as deputy supervisor to serve until the end of May at an annual salary[…]
On Saturday, Dec. 18, the Belleville / Van Buren Goodfellows had the pleasure of distributing boxes of food, half hams, gift cards, gloves, hats, winter coats and plenty of very[…]
The Belleville Area District Library Board at its regular meeting Dec. 14 approved a 6% raise in pay for Library Director Mary Jo Suchy – as well as for all[…]
At the Dec. 13 meeting of the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education the coach of the BHS championship football team and his players explained how they took the[…]
After a closed-door session near the end of the Dec. 13 regular meeting of the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education, the board reconvened to give the school superintendent[…]
Refinancing the Belleville Downtown Development Authority Streetscape bonds will save about $200,000 in bond payments, so the Belleville City Council at its Dec. 6 in-person meeting unanimously approved the refinancing.[…]