At Monday’s school board meeting (Sept. 10), School Supt. Michael Van Tassel explained the “perfect storm” that brought school bus mayhem to the first school days in the Van Buren Public[…]
A 45-year-old Sumpter Township woman was unresponsive and appeared to be suffering from a head injury, chest injury, and was not breathing very well on her own when emergency crews[…]
The Local Development Finance Authority met Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 11) and voted to ask the Van Buren Township Board of Trustees to meet with Visteon to settle expected bond payment[…]
Sybil Buchanan, who has been serving as a “floater” in the Sumpter Township offices, has been promoted to a permanent assignment as Water Department Clerk, effective Sept. 4. The promotion[…]
Delria Crippen-White of Detroit is the new principal of Edgemont Elementary School, effective immediately. She was chosen from four outside applicants, with no internal candidates for the position. Pay for[…]
Three Belleville High School seniors are expected to be sentenced to 5-15 years apiece on two counts of unarmed robbery, plus an additional count of felony firearm which carries a[…]
A public hearing was held before the Van Buren Township Planning Commission Aug. 22 on a proposed rezoning of .61 acres of land to make way for a Menard’s store.[…]
After more than two years of study and consideration, the Van Buren Township Planning Commission at its Aug. 22 meeting approved the final site plan for a landfill-gas-to-energy plant on[…]
Former Belleville Police Chief Hal Berriman returned to his old office on Monday, Aug. 27, as interim chief until current Chief Gene Taylor returns from sick leave. At the Aug. 20[…]
Attorneys for Louis Kovach and Van Buren Township met with Circuit Court Judge John Gillis, Jr. on Friday, Aug. 17, and agreed to postpone oral arguments in the law suit until[…]