Belleville DDA postpones donation for Belleville Lake Fest
The Belleville Downtown Development Authority decided to put a request from Belleville Lake Fest for a $2,000 donation on the agenda of the DDA’s next meeting on April 21. At[…]
Vote via Twitter in contest to get Independent digitized
The Belleville Area District Library has been selected as one of four finalists for the Digital Michigan Newspaper grant through the Clarke Historical Library of Central Michigan University. The grant[…]
Airport officials give report on upgrades at Willow Run Airport
Chad Newton, who has been Chief Executive Officer of Wayne County Airport Authority for three years, was among those giving a report on Willow Run Airport to the Van Buren[…]
Editorial: This is national Sunshine Week
Sunshine Week is March 14-20. The week has been celebrated each spring since 2005 when it was started by the American Society of News Editors, now the News Leaders Association.[…]
Belleville to consider keeping police chief as city manager, too
After a discussion on how to move forward in selecting a new city manager from the 19 remaining candidates, the Belleville City Council agreed to have Mayor Kerreen Conley and[…]
President signs HB1 and sends huge checks to tri-community
With the stroke of President Joe Biden’s pen on the $1.9 trillion economic stimulus House Bill 1 on Thursday, communities across the country were designated for big checks with little[…]
Mike Foley sells Frosty Boy in Belleville after 32 years
Mike Foley said he liked to hire 14 year olds to work at Frosty Boy. It takes a long time to train them to make ice creams look pretty and[…]
Vote in contest to digitize Independents since 1995
The Belleville Area District Library has been selected as one of four finalists for the Digital Michigan Newspaper grant through the Clarke Historical Library of Central Michigan University. The grant[…]
Correction: It was Herbert Harris who came to VBT with Rose
A member of the extended Harris family called on March 15 on another matter, but then mentioned we had an error in the Harris Park story in the March 11[…]
Belleville approves police body cameras, new in-car video systems
“One lawsuit could devastate our city,” said Belleville Police Chief Dave Robinson at Monday’s regular meeting of the city council via Zoom. He explained that with the current police department[…]
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