The Forgotten Harvest Mobile Food Pantry continues to pass out free fresh food in the Van Buren Township parking lot until the end of the year, but some of the[…]

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Glenn Silvenis of RE/MAX Crossroads in Belleville has received the RE/MAX Circle of Legends Award which honors highly successful agents, based on sales volume and having completed 10 years of[…]

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Ryann Danielle Musselman, 29, of Belleville was arraigned Nov. 9 in Washtenaw County 14A-2 District Court on two felony counts of operating while intoxicated causing death. She is accused of[…]

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Elizabeth Chalupka of Sumpter Township, a senior at Michigan Virtual Charter Academy, is a delegate to the Congress of Future Medical Leaders on June 25-26, 2021. The Congress is an[…]

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Republican Tim Bowman was elected supervisor of Sumpter Township according to unofficial results of the Nov. 3 General Election. Re-elected Clerk was Esther Hurst, a Democrat; and elected Treasurer was[…]

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A reader called the Independent on Election Day to tell us the voting machine at Belleville High School stopped working that morning and the VBT clerk’s office was alerted. Deputy[…]

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On Oct. 28, volunteers hung banners of local veterans on light poles in the City of Belleville. A crew of seven volunteers hung 62 banners in three hours time along[…]

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After a half-hour, Zoom meeting on Oct. 28, the Van Buren Township Planning Commission voted unanimously to send the new Land Use Master Plan on to the township board with[…]

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At the Sumpter Township Board of Trustee’s Oct. 27 meeting, township attorney Rob Young asked the board to add a last-minute item to the agenda. He said he knew the[…]

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At its 59-minute Zoom meeting on Oct. 27, the Van Buren Township Downtown Development Authority board unanimously adopted a COVID-19 Pandemic Reopening Policy and then set a policy for building[…]

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