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Ion Calmîș

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Founder and editor-in-chief of Triunghi.md. Ion (Nalyk) Calmîș has worked at the intersection of journalism and technology in the Republic of Moldova for over two decades — a road that began in Ungheni, as a reporter at the newspaper Unghiul. He is CTO of Studio Technologies, the company behind the platforms of some of the country's most-read newsrooms (unimedia.info, jurnal.md, jurnaltv.md, tvrmoldova.md), and Head of AI Ecosystem at Esempla Systems (Moldova's GovStack infrastructure); he co-founded the newsroom Replica Media. At Triunghi.md he puts that experience — and artificial intelligence, at scale — in the service of local journalism built on source triangulation (People, Documents, Data) and on impartiality.

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In a function hall, a woman presents a slide titled “The stages of organizing a folkloric expedition”; beside her, on a table covered with a traditional rug, framed pictures and embroideries are on display.

LOCAL

The traditional houses of Ungheni's villages are vanishing. Documenting them has become “an emergency”

A workshop organized by the Culture and Tourism Department at Petrești, on 23 July, raised a problem larger than a single day of sessions: the peasant houses of clay, wood and reed thatch in the district's villages are being lost, against a backdrop of depopulation of more than 22% in a decade, and the ordinary ones hold no monument status. What most often remains is only what someone manages to document — a method with deep roots right here, at Cornova, where Dimitrie Gusti's team was already “reading” the village back in 1931.

Ion Calmis·25 July 2026· Explainer

A team of boys in navy-and-yellow kit, silver medals around their necks and a cup in front of them, posing on the sand of the beach soccer arena in Chișinău alongside their coach; in the background, the stands bearing the inscription “Orange Arena”.

LOCAL

Viitorul Ungheni's kids are Moldova's U13 beach soccer runners-up

The U13 children's team of the Ungheni District Sports School, “Viitorul”, came back from Chișinău with silver medals: 2nd place at Moldova's national beach soccer championship, 2026 edition, out of a field that both the club and the parents put at 16 teams. It is a step above the bronze the same school took in 2023, in a sport dominated by the capital's clubs and contested on the country's only sand arena.

Ion Calmis·25 July 2026· News

A panorama of the town of Ungheni in the warm light of a summer evening, with buildings, greenery and the Prut river in the distance, in a festive atmosphere.

LOCAL

564 years since the first record: Ungheni celebrated its Municipality Days and twinned with Tulcea and Izmit

Ungheni's Municipality Days took place from 20 to 31 August. The celebration opened on 20 August for a precise reason: on that day, in 1462, the settlement is mentioned for the first time in a document — 564 years ago. The programme included the launch of a local-history yearbook, a folklore festival and concerts by performers with Ungheni roots, and on 27 August two new twinning agreements were signed, with the municipality of Tulcea in Romania and the city of Izmit in Turkey.

Ion Calmis·24 July 2026· Explainer

A field of stubble and dry, yellowish grass under a scorching summer sky, the air shimmering with heat on the horizon.

LOCAL

Yellow fire code, ten days nationwide: what the law bans and what burning stubble costs

The Authority for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring has extended its warning of exceptional danger of vegetation fires until 31 July, for most of the country — including the Ungheni district, in the middle of its harvest campaign. The law bans burning stubble and plant residue, and the fine reaches 15,000 lei for an individual and 40,000 for a company. Last year, fires lit by people were the main cause of blazes in the fields.

Ion Calmis·24 July 2026· Explainer

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A freshly modernised village road, with new asphalt and markings, lined with houses and trees, under the summer sky.

LOCAL

Burebista Street in Sculeni enters construction: how a half-billion state programme reaches the village

The Sculeni commune hall announced on 23 July the start of works to modernise Burebista Street, through a government programme for repairing local roads, “Europe is Near”. The project, approved by the council in May 2025 after consultations with residents, was put out to a tender worth over 4 million lei, to which five firms applied. After a challenge upheld in full by the disputes authority and a re-evaluation of the offers, the contract was awarded to Vicoliv Grup, which had submitted the lowest price. This is a different Burebista Street from the one refurbished in Ungheni.

Ion Calmis·24 July 2026· Explainer

A yellow grader levels a dirt-and-gravel street in a neighbourhood of houses in the town of Cornești; flowering shrubs and a fence line the edge.

LOCAL

Cornești lays 960 metres of gravel streets in the „white variant”: what it means and why it isn't asphalt

The Cornești Town Hall announced on 23 July that it had finished „white-variant” repairs on three streets — 2 Decembrie, Stejarului lane and Stejarului street — some 960 metres in all. The „white variant” means compacted gravel, not asphalt: a cheaper, faster solution, but a temporary one — so temporary that, in its own procurement, the town hall cut the works' warranty from 36 to 12 months. The money comes from state transfers for local roads, and the tender, estimated at about 749,000 lei, does not yet have a winner recorded in the public data.

Ion Calmis·24 July 2026· Explainer

A group of people of all ages, adults and children, pedalling together along a tree-lined street in a small town, at a community bike ride.

LOCAL

Ungheni's municipal enterprises take to their bikes — in a town with 311 cars per thousand residents

On Friday, 24 July 2026, from 16.00, the weekly „VeloVineri” campaign run by Ungheni City Hall puts the municipal enterprises in the spotlight, starting from the front of City Hall. Beyond the ride, the underlying stake is real: a town with 311 cars per thousand residents — about 40% above the district average — and with narrow lanes, which has set itself the goal that, by 2030, one in ten trips be made by bike. The figures show major benefits for health and for the wallet; research also shows that a town truly starts pedalling above all when it gets safe lanes, not just campaigns.

Ion Calmis·24 July 2026· Explainer

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PUBLIC SERVICES

How water climbs from the Prut up to the hill of Boghenii Vechi: the commune has brought its water main into all four of its villages

The Boghenii Noi commune hall announced on 22 July that it had completed connecting the village of Boghenii Vechi to the water main, including the 'hill zone' — the hardest part to supply, because the water has to be pumped more than 200 metres higher than the source. The water comes from Zagarancea, from the Prut river, the same source that also supplies the town of Ungheni. In official statistics, the village shows a public water network only from 2025: 3.1 km and 59 connected dwellings. It is a small piece of a national process that, in 2024, delivered 507 of the 561 kilometres of new network precisely in villages.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· Analysis

The bright interior of a renovated hospital ward: a room with a medical bed and a monitor for vital functions next to a large window, a clean corridor with a glossy floor and rooms along the sides.

EDUCATION & HEALTH

The Ungheni hospital has completely renovated its neurology ward — 32 beds, an intensive care room and new equipment for stroke and epilepsy

The Ungheni District Hospital announces that its neurology ward has been renovated in full and re-equipped: 32 beds, an intensive care room with continuous monitoring of vital functions, a video-EEG, a Doppler scanner for the brain's vessels and a physiotherapy room. The announcement does not say how much it cost — but public procurement shows works contracted by the hospital for the neurology and paediatrics wards worth over 3.3 million lei, plus a repair job of up to 924,000 lei. And the hospital itself admits that the rest of the infrastructure needs “a far more complex and radical approach”.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· Analysis