The quarterfinal second legs of the Ungheni district football cup „MAGIRUS” are played on Sunday, 12 July — four matches that decide the semifinalists. The hardest task is FC Bârsa Ungheni's: after a 2-5 first leg against FC Haiduc Bumbăta, it needs a „remontada” at home. The full schedule, kick-off times, venues and what each team has to overturn.
Ungheni City Hall announced on Friday that it had paved two more streets in the Ungheni Vale neighbourhood — Arcașii lui Ștefan and Suceava, 850 metres, „from the City Hall budget”. One of them, Arcașii lui Ștefan, appears however on the list of roads that the Municipal Council approved in May to be modernised from the 10-million-lei loan raised through municipal bonds — money that the people of Ungheni will repay, with interest. The decision publishes only the total ceiling, not how much each street costs.
Carabinieri from the Ungheni Mobile Intervention Company and district police, in a joint operation, found and destroyed 400 cannabis plants that had grown wild and untended — 150 on the outskirts of the village of Florițoaia Nouă and 250 near the village of Grozasca. The plants, self-seeded on abandoned land, were destroyed on the spot to prevent their use for illegal purposes. No individuals were named as targeted.
The Competitions Committee of the Ungheni Territorial Football Association, through record no. 10 of 9 July, sanctioned three players sent off in the first legs of the quarter-finals of the district «MAGIRUS» Cup 2026, played on 5 July. Each was shown a red card after two yellows, each is suspended for the next match — the second leg — and each club pays a 200-lei fine. The sanction that hurts most falls on FC Speranța Semeni: it loses a player exactly for the home second leg in which it has to claw back a goal.
Children from the commune of Zagarancea, Ungheni district, have won the second edition of the international youth tournament «Cupa Prieteniei» (the Friendship Cup), held between 29 June and 6 July in Montmorillon, France. FC Zagarancea beat the host team, UES Montmorillon, 3–2 in the final, repeating its win from the first edition in 2025. This is the second part of a story we told when the boys set off: a team gathered by teacher Sebastian Andriuța, which reached France through a Zagarancea–Putna–Montmorillon chain of twinnings.
On 4 July 2026, 100 years passed since the birth — in the village of Unțești, Ungheni district — of Vasile Vasilache, one of the most original prose writers of Bessarabia's 1960s generation. His novel «Povestea cu cocoșul roșu» (The Tale of the Red Rooster, 1966) also brought him ostracism: the second part was struck down by Soviet censorship, and the book appeared in full only in 1986. For the centenary, the state honours him with a silver coin, a symposium at the Academy and an exhibition at the National Library — all in Chișinău. In Ungheni, the living trace is the lower-secondary school in his native village that bears his name.
The Joint Working Group of the ten localities set to form a single town hall analysed, on 8 July, the assets, the staffing and the budgets — a consolidated budget estimated at about 350 million lei. In the same days, the district's first institutional voice of opposition is heard: the town hall of Cornești asks 'if we abolish the town halls, will the villages flourish?' — even though its own town hall is running the amalgamation questionnaires.
The district's only vocational school, with 538 students, says it has been selected among the 13 institutions in the country included in the new phase of CONSEPT — a four-year programme (2026–2029) to modernise technical and vocational education, funded by Liechtenstein. What it means, concretely, for Ungheni's students and teachers.
The man who, day after day, keeps the square in front of the town hall in order — the paths, the trees, the shrubs — received a diploma and a bouquet from mayor Vitalie Vrabie on his birthday. A gesture for the quiet work that keeps one of the town-centre spaces looking cared for.
