A 12-year, 50% tax abatement agreement with General Electric was approved unanimously by the Van Buren Township Board of Trustees at its July 6 regular meeting. Although by the township’s[…]
At Monday’s meeting of the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education, the board approved eight more contracts for construction of the new $79 million Belleville High School, now under[…]
Sumpter Township Police arrested two men for pulling a daytime home invasion that was so quiet the home’s occupants slept through it all. The two men could be looking at[…]
Van Buren Township’s Flag Lady, Marie Krouse, with her arms full of tattered and broken American Flags, told the VBT Board of Trustees at its July 6 meeting about the[…]
Yet another violent storm ripped through this area on Sunday afternoon – the fourth storm during the month of June that required sounding of the emergency sirens in the City[…]
It took 64 years for Primitivo Gutierrez III of Belleville to complete a ride in a C-47 that was interrupted after taking off from Seattle in 1946. On Saturday, Gutierrez[…]
Five more contracts for construction of the $79 million Belleville High School were approved by the school board at a special meeting June 21. The following contracts were recommended by[…]
At Monday’s School Board meeting, a contract with an electrical contractor that had just gone to a non-union shop was approved after some lively discussion. Trustee Martha Toth said several[…]
The Van Buren Township Planning Commission voted unanimously at its June 23 meeting to recommend rejection of the Visteon rezoning application to make way for a generator at the east[…]
After a public hearing Monday, the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education approved a balanced budget of $52 million, which necessitated cutting into the fund balance to balance. By[…]