The Huron River Watershed Council (HRWC) will help residents get involved in local government decision-making that impacts the quality of our home waters. It will host workshops in Green Oak[…]
After almost three hours of arguing Tuesday, the Van Buren Townships Board of Trustees voted 4-3 to approve the fifth amendment to the landfill host community agreement with Waste Management.[…]
John Thomas Henderson, Jr., age 52, a lifelong Belleville-area resident who earned a National Award of Valor for pulling a 2-year-old girl from a house fire, died of pneumonia at[…]
At the beginning of Monday’s regular meeting of the Belleville City Council, Mayor Kerreen Conley said the fire department is not on the agenda and, “We don’t anticipate that it[…]
On Tuesday, police departments from Sumpter and Huron townships reported to the public and the media that rural drivers being confronted with suspicious situations while on their roads. In a[…]
In a six-minute, special meeting Dec. 14, the Van Buren Township Downtown Development Authority unanimously passed a motion to hire the township attorney and engineer to help with Belleville Road[…]
Sumpter Township attorney Rob Young gave a glowing report to the township board and the public at the Dec. 12 board meeting concerning how Sumpter fared in the Nelson Po[…]
At the beginning of the Dec. 12 meeting of the Sumpter Township Board of Trustees, township attorney Rob Young asked the board to reconsider a resolution he asked them to[…]
Proposed text amendments to the township zoning ordinance to include language for Large Energy Solar Systems and Portable Storage Units were approved by the Sumpter Township Planning Commission at its[…]
On page 23 in the Dec. 14 edition of the Independent, it was reported that Van Buren Township Police Lt. Charles Bazzy worked at VBT PD for 27 years and[…]