By Rosemary K. Otzman Independent Editor The Van Buren Township Local Development Finance Authority met at 2 p.m. Nov. 17, mainly to go into closed-door session with attorneys handling its[…]
By Rosemary K. Otzman Independent Editor The deteriorating wood playscape at Village Park, in front of Victoria Commons subdivision, will be replaced with a new, handicapped-accessible playscape next year, with[…]
By Rosemary K. Otzman Independent Editor On Thursday, Nov. 13, students in the Van Buren Public Schools got an unexpected day off after an early morning spectacular fire at the[…]
On Friday, Nov. 14, Michigan’s First Lady Sue Snyder visited Rawsonville Elementary School to help present the school with the Scholastic Reading Award for reading the most minutes – 966,675[…]
Vena Ezette Mixon, 47, of Sumpter Township was sentenced to two years of probation and up to three months in the Wayne County Jail after she pled no-contest to a[…]
David Ryan Brooks, 24, the former Romulus police officer who was involved in a road-rage incident on Belleville Road in May, has been sentenced to two years of non-reporting probation[…]
The Nov. 12 jury trial on first-degree, premeditated murder charges against Richard Elmer Jackson, 49, was cancelled after Jackson pled guilty to second-degree murder as part of a plea deal.[…]
By Rosemary K. Otzman Independent Editor The murder and felony firearm charges filed against Diane Letice Orr, 43, of Van Buren Township, were dismissed at her final conference at Wayne[…]
A story that needs correction was never seen in print in the Independent. It was at the end of a long Court Watching story that was put on the Independent[…]
By Rosemary K. Otzman Independent Editor Zachary Allen Hark, 18, pled guilty to a charge of embezzlement on Oct. 29 before 34th District Court Judge Brian A. Oakley. It was[…]