Editorial: Polar Plunge brings $46,800 to Special Olympics athletes
As usual with the annual event, crowds mobbed the Belleville Yacht Club on Saturday to witness the 100 or so participants who voluntarily jumped into a hole carved in icy[…]
Sumpter Township Police Dept. earns MLEAC accreditation
At the Feb. 11 regular meeting of the Sumpter Township Board of Trustees, Eric Luke announced that the police department has achieved accredited status from the Michigan Law Enforcement Accreditation[…]
Annual St. Patrick’s Day dinner set for March 17 at Van Buren Eagles
The Van Buren Eagles #3996 at 9961 Beck Rd., Van Buren Township, is presenting it St. Patrick’s Day corned beef and cabbage dinner from 5 to 8 p.m. (or until[…]
District Library board hires law firm to review settlement on penal fines
After much discussion on the penal fine problem, at its Feb. 11 meeting the Belleville Area District Library board voted unanimously to hire attorney G. Hans Rentrop from Adkinson, Need,[…]
Rotary’s Cozaad Foundation donates $2,000 to Food Closet
At the Feb. 11 meeting of the Belleville Rotary Club, club president Rachel Kozlowski and Keith Bruder, who represented the club’s Cozaad Foundation, presented a $2,000 check to Marilyn Wood,[…]
Sumpter Township clerk says 10 voting tabulators need replacement
Sumpter Township Clerk Don LaPorte told the township board at its regular meeting on Feb. 11 that he has found ten voting tabulators need replacement by Dominion, who will give[…]
Denise Baker, Gayl Parr still in Professional Building to serve you
By Kelly Boelter Denise (Wilmarth) Baker and Gayl Parr have been partners in the tax and accounting business for 34 years, working, at the beginning in Livonia, with their other[…]
Belleville District Library Committee Assignments for 2025
At the Feb. 11 meeting of the Belleville Area District Library Board, president Sharon Peters announced the following committee assignments for 2025: • Building Committee: Joy Cichewicz, chair; Linda Priest;[…]
Editorial: Post Office should do well as new city hall, police station
We taxpayers paid to build the Belleville Post Office on Charles Street in 1970 and it was built solid, with lots of room. This should be a great building for[…]
City Council agrees to purchase city hall site for $850,000
In what Belleville Mayor Ken Voigt called an “historic moment,” the city council, in a special meeting on Feb. 6, voted unanimously to purchase the former Belleville Post Office building[…]
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