Hostile crowd jams school board meeting
More than 250 people made up an unruly audience on Monday, Jan. 25, at the Belleville High School cafeteria as the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education met for[…]
Student arrested, expelled after bringing gun, bullets to BHS
A freshman student at Belleville High School has been arrested and expelled for bringing a 45-caliber pistol to school in his backpack, along with a loaded magazine. Belleville Police Chief[…]
Supt. Van Tassel takes five Savage Elementary teachers off their jobs
On Thursday, Jan. 21, two Van Buren Public Schools officials marched four teachers to the door with a single sheet of paper in their hands announcing that each has been[…]
VBT Public Safety Dept. collecting water for Flint
Van Buren Township Fire Chief Dan Besson announced Monday that the fire halls and police station are drop-off points for donations of water for residents of Flint. Chief Besson said[…]
Mail Center One reopens after cleanup of spilled mercury
Mail Center One at 847 Sumpter Road in Belleville has reopened after clean up of a mercury spill that occurred Jan. 18. Arch Environmental Group, a Hazmat company hired by[…]
Blacksmith hopes to win $10,000 prize to take recovered wife to Hawaii
Susan Duda-Osborne, a Belleville High School teacher who is on a leave of absence as she is treated for breast cancer, announces her husband Chad Osborne has been invited to[…]
VBT Police seek information on armed robbery at BP
The Van Buren Township Police Department is seeking the public’s help in the investigation of an armed robbery that took place at about 12:18 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 24, at[…]
Editorial: School Supt. announces cheating on Savage tests
Although the word “cheating” was never used in a letter School Supt. Michael Van Tassel published on the Van Buren Public Schools web site this week, that’s what he described.[…]
MAFF Exec. Director: ‘We’re at an impasse’
Fred Timpner, executive director of the Michigan Association of Fire Fighters, said Friday, Jan. 15, that the union is at an impasse with the city of Belleville over the first[…]
Mercury spill closes Mail Center One
At about 4:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18, the Belleville Fire Department was dispatched to a Hazmat situation at Mail Center One in the Belle Plaza shopping center, 847 Sumpter Road,[…]
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