Charles (Christopher) Campbell and Michael Japowicz were hired as the township’s new communications specialists at the regular meeting of the Van Buren Township Board of Trustees on Dec. 7 via[…]
Jonathon Arneberg, who was representing National Heritage Academies at the Dec. 9 in-person meeting of the Keystone Academy board of directors, told the board that in January NHA will prepare[…]
After an Independent reader reported seeing the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s vehicle parked at the Super 8 motel just before 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 28, Van Buren Township Police[…]
Van Buren Township Clerk Leon Wright’s office recently conducted its ninth-annual community outreach program, which seeks to link children with needed school supplies. He visited Tyler, Rawsonville, Savage, and Edgemont[…]
Josh Bryan Rigor, a basketball student-athlete from Belleville High School, has been selected by Student Athletic World to represent the United States in the United World Games, an international sporting[…]
This has been a difficult year for everyone with the coronavirus, vaccinations and masks, civil unrest, school shootings and threats and inflation. We are at Christmas now and people are[…]
The following were judged winners in the 2021 Holiday Lighting Contest in the City of Belleville. Council members did the judging. The winners were honored at the Dec. 20 council[…]
At the Dec. 20 regular, in-person meeting of the Belleville City Council, two long-time police corporals were sworn in as sergeants and then presented with their new badges. City Manager/Police[…]
At its Dec. 14 zoom meeting, the Sumpter Township Board of Trustees appointed Trustee Tim Rush as deputy supervisor to serve until the end of May at an annual salary[…]
On Saturday, Dec. 18, the Belleville / Van Buren Goodfellows had the pleasure of distributing boxes of food, half hams, gift cards, gloves, hats, winter coats and plenty of very[…]