At 10 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 3, Belleville police officers noticed a traffic infraction at Five Points, made a U-turn, and stopped the car in Sam’s parking lot. Belleville Police Chief[…]
The Van Buren Eagles, 9961 Beck Road, Van Buren Township, invite the public to a Saturday night Sock Hop from 8 p.m. to midnight on Jan. 17. Fast Eddie, a[…]
By Rosemary K. Otzman Independent Editor With a few hours to spare, the Van Buren Township Board of Trustees held public hearings on 18 of its budgets before the end[…]
Jeff and Sue Kotlarek of Romulus are the winners of $100 in the Independent contest where readers were invited to write what they like about the paper or the story[…]
The Yankee Air Museum (YAM) is dismantling its Mars Rover Exploration Station and making way for its next big attraction: Fly Zone. The Exploration Station is the museum’s area for[…]
By Rosemary K. Otzman Independent Editor The preliminary exam for Cora Ladane Lymon began on Dec. 10 before 34th District Court Judge Brian A. Oakley and then abruptly ended when[…]
At about 1:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 23, the Van Buren Township Fire Department was called to a van fire on eastbound I-94 at the ramp to Haggerty Road. VBT[…]
A house fire, with flames neighbors say were above the roof line, was the result of a turkey fryer on the deck at 1163 Roulo Street in Van Buren Township[…]
By Rosemary K. Otzman Independent Editor Jennifer Price of the Van Buren Township Community Services Department gave a presentation on the township’s recycling program to the VBT Environmental Commission at[…]
Billy McFarley, a 39-year-old Van Buren Township resident, was walking eastbound on the I-94 South Service Drive near Denton Road at about 9:53 p.m. on Christmas Day when he was[…]