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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.
Another group of pupils from Ungheni district arrived on Tuesday at the "Arcul de Triumf" National Sports Complex in Bucharest, at one of the ARC camps run by the Romanian state. It is the second batch of children from the district to leave this summer through the programme, after the group of about 100 children that set off, at the end of June, for Padiș and Oglinzi.
On Tuesday, 7 July, the ANRE board approved new tariffs for "Apă-Canal Ungheni" SRL: drinking water rises from 23.54 to 25.17 lei/m³, and sewerage for household consumers from 14.71 to 14.84 lei/m³ — 40.01 lei/m³ in total, 1.76 lei more (+4.6%). The increase comes eleven days after the Ungheni Municipal Council announced the tariff would stay at 38.25 lei and that the operator had "dropped" an increase. The ANRE document shows, however, that the operator's tariff file was still under review — the agency cut it, rather than rejecting it.
In the west of the Ungheni district, administrative reform is moving from working meetings to people. The five mayoralties negotiating a merger — Pîrlița, Agronomovca, Alexeevca, Rădenii Vechi and Teșcureni — have reached the stage of consulting citizens. Today, 7 July, public assemblies are being held to present the „Development Vision” of the future administrative unit. In Rădenii Vechi, the assembly is this evening, at 6 p.m.
The TeatrUngheni troupe, led by Edgar Bunea — the new artistic director of the House of Culture — has opened the third edition of its Theatre Camp. On the first day, 23 children formed two teams and started filming a „camp mini-series”. The programme runs for ten days. It is one more summer activity for children in a district whose young people are leaving.
Not just „Eminescu”. A second school in the Ungheni district — the „Ion Creangă” Theoretical High School in the Dănuțeni neighbourhood — is being renovated as part of the national model-schools network. The building is being refurbished with money from the Norwegian Government, through UNDP Moldova, while the furniture and IT equipment come from the World Bank. Works began in 2025 and are still under way — at the last official visit, the roof was being repaired. The amount allocated to the school and its number of pupils have not been made public.
A 45-year-old man was given 20 years in prison for a murder committed with particular cruelty on the night of 1–2 March in Ungheni. The defendant denied the crime and blamed another person, but the court found him guilty based on the evidence. The sentence is not final and can be appealed at the Northern Court of Appeal.
Ungheni city hall has started work to reinforce the protective dike along the Prut and its tributary, the Delia, in the Ungheni-Vale neighbourhood — the area threatened by Prut floods in 2008, 2010 and 2020. The 2,341 metres of dike will carry a riverfront promenade with walkways, bike lanes and viewpoints over the river. The project is funded by the European Union with a €922,715 grant, through the cross-border Interreg programme, together with the twin city of Dorohoi in Romania.
The children's team „Viitorul” of Ungheni says it has started in the 2026 edition of the national beach soccer championship, on the arena in Chișinău. It is not a first for Ungheni on the sand: in 2023, the district sports school of the same name took a squad of youngsters to third place in the country. The results of the opening round have not yet been made public.
Ungheni District Council opened the second session of the “Prietenia” (Friendship) camp on 6 July — a “day camp” for children, in Ungheni and Măcărești. Behind the ceremony lie concrete figures that matter to parents: 1.26 million lei from the district budget, 400 places spread across four 10-day sessions, free for children from vulnerable families and a 15% fee for everyone else. The programme has become the district's main form of organised holiday after the “Codreanca” camp was liquidated in February.
