State Rep. Bill LaVoy, D-Monroe, who represents Sumpter Township, is among lawmakers who introduced legislation that would allow Michigan school districts to stock naloxone, an antidote used to treat an[…]
The Van Buren School Board met for more than three hours Monday night with a crowd packed tightly into the high school’s mini auditorium. The board, absent vice president Martha[…]
The Van Buren Township Planning and Economic Development Department is setting up a new committee to address the opposition to the proposed Lake Ordinance. At its regular meeting on March[…]
In an hour-long meeting on March 10, the Belleville Planning Commission reviewed its 33-page Sign Ordinance with the help of planning consultant Jill Bahm of ClearZoning, who put the ordinance[…]
The Belleville Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4434 is running its Community Service Project for the year: “Operation Torn and Tattered.” VBT Quartermaster Adjutant Ross Medaus said Monday that out[…]
Two Van Buren Township police officers were having coffee at Starbuck’s at about 6:47 a.m. Saturday, when they noticed smoke coming from a home on Dewitt Road, not far away.[…]
The public is invited to Moose Lodge 934 from 8 p.m. to midnight on Friday, April 15, for a performance of the Blues Brothers and the Great Southern Heat Band.[…]
The fourth-annual charity basketball tournament to benefit St. Vincent de Paul charities is set for Saturday, March 19, at the Belleville High School gymnasium, 501 West Columbia Ave. Teams will[…]
The new Belleville-area group of the League of Women Voters will meet at 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 30, at The Q Events Center, 879 Sumpter Road in Belle Plaza. The[…]
In the Feb. 25 issue of the Independent, we announced the annual autism fund raiser at the Belleville High School gym would be April 19. It isn’t. It really is[…]