The final site plan for the Woodland Meadows expansion to construct a methane gas recovery plant was approved unanimously by the Van Buren Township Planning Commission at its regular meeting[…]
We remember when Three Farmers applied for a license to turn the former dog kennel on Bemis Road into a slaughterhouse. It took them a very long time to jump[…]
Truckers were charged with ignoring Van Buren Township’s agreement with Costco to avoid heading south on Belleville Road to I-94 and to use Ecorse Road to I-275 instead. At the[…]
At its Aug. 26 regular meeting, the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education unanimously approved a two-year contract — July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026 – with the[…]
Mayor Ken Voigt called a special 6 p.m. Belleville City Council meeting for Aug. 26 to pass a resolution opposing radioactive waste scheduled to be disposed of in Wayne Disposal[…]
On Aug. 21, the Belleville Downtown Development Authority selected low-bidder Davenport Construction of Belleville to tear down the buildings behind the former hardware store on Main Street and construct an[…]
The Van Buren Township Board of Trustees at its regular meeting Aug. 20 unanimously approved buying 14 mobile dash cameras for police cars on a five-year contract with Motorola Solutions.[…]
A group of a dozen senior citizens who live in Van Buren Township sat down with the Independent on Friday, Aug. 23, to tell the paper that that no one[…]
Mohamad Youssef-Ali Bakkar Mohamad Youssef-Ali Bakkar, 73, of Canton was charged with furnishing tobacco to a minor on July 22 in the city of Belleville. At his arraignment/pretrial at 34th[…]
As a fund raiser, the Belleville Area Council for the Arts is leasing spaces at Victory Park for the annual city-wide yard sale, Sept. 7-8. This was approved by the[…]