The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently released its final environmental assessment on the Cleveland/Detroit Metroplex project. The project will replace conventional air traffic control procedures with satellite-based ones and will[…]
At about 8:20 a.m. on Saturday, June 30, a motorcycle and a car collided in the middle of the intersection at Belleville Road and the I-94 Service Dr. The motorcyclist,[…]
Friends of Michigan Animals Rescue, the no-kill animal shelter based in Sumpter Township, needs more teams for its benefit golf outing on Saturday, July 14. This ninth-annual golf outing will[…]
To help build its pedestrian walkway over I-94, Van Buren Township Downtown Development Authority received a Michigan Department of Transportation grant of $250,000 and $250,000 more from the Southeastern Michigan[…]
The Van Buren Township summer youth job program, now in its second year, has selected 24 student interns, ages 14-18, for temporary jobs within the township’s municipal sectors. The program[…]
The City of Romulus will ask voters to approve a ballot proposal that would provide funding to maintain the current level of fire and police services in the community –[…]
Dr. Prasant Mohapatra, the University of California, Davis, Dean of Graduate Studies, placed a hood on James Archsmith, conferring his PhD at recent commencement ceremonies. Archsmith, son of Belleville residents[…]
The Belleville Area Museum planted the first Rosie the Riveter Floribunda Rosebush garden in southeast Michigan on June 28. Ten original Rosies and their families along with friends and tri-community[…]
Ashley Hollar of Belleville has filed a lawsuit against Walmart and Caito Foods after she said she contracted Salmonella by eating pre-cut watermelon she bought at the Van Buren Township[…]
Tractor Supply Co., which has been supplying advertising inserts to readers of the Belleville-Area Independent for months, is expected to break ground in Canton Township in August for its newest[…]