After a lively discussion on Monday, the Belleville City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution giving its opinion to keep the library site in the City of Belleville. The[…]
At a special meeting Friday night, Oct. 28, the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education decided to interview Belleville High School Principal Michael Van Tassell for the job of[…]
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The Favored site for a proposed new public Library building for the Tri-Community is the highlighted area above.
The second-place in voting for a public library site was a downtown Belleville site.
The third-place proposed site was the whole north business block of the city of Belleville.
In the Jan. 10, 2010 issue of the Independent, we published a story about a pregnant Belleville resident with a brain tumor who asked the community for help in preserving[…]