Editor’s note: This photo story is exclusive to the Belleville Area Independent website and doesn’t appear in this week’s print edition. Activists hosted a joint protest of a proposed data[…]
Editor’s note: This story has been edited from the printed version to reflect a more accurate portrayal of the brother’s flight from persecution. the In the Aug. 27 issue of[…]
In the Aug. 6 issue of The Belleville Area Independent, I wrote an article about food pantries run by three local churches: Belleville United Methodist, Faith Community, and Be Church.[…]
Now that wording for a recall petition has been approved, the committee seeking recall of the entire Van Buren Township board of trustees is proceeding with collecting signatures. Anti-data-center activists[…]
Editor Emeritus Rosemary Otzman mentioned at least twice in columns that the paper has transitioned from a for-profit model to a nonprofit foundation, The Belleville Area News Foundation. However, I[…]
An overgrown memorial at Van Buren Park has now been transformed into a butterfly garden thanks to the Van Buren Parks & Rec team and a youth program called R.E.A.L..[…]
At its Aug. 24 meeting, the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education heard a report on bids for the first phase of construction of the district’s new operations building.[…]
I thought readers might be interested in yet another update about a blighted property in Van Buren Township. The original photo story about the blighted property in Van Buren Township[…]
Belleville will soon have a full-service grocery store after the city’s Downtown Development Authority (DDA) finalized the sale of the property at 458 Main St. to Sunset Holding for $725,000[…]
I have been sorting through all the files and drawers in the office I work from that used to be where former editor Rosemary Otzman sat. There are old papers,[…]