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Dry vegetation and a heap of rubbish burning with flames and black smoke at the edge of a village, in daytime.
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Fire at the Costuleni dump: district town halls warn that burning vegetation carries fines of 10,000–15,000 lei

Costuleni Town Hall filmed a new fire at the village dump, a few days after it had asked people not to burn dry vegetation. On the same day, Cioropcani Town Hall issued its own warning. The fire does not come from the day's heat — it is cooler now — but from vegetation left dry after the heatwave and from fires left unattended, an act for which the law provides stinging fines.

Ion Calmis·8 July 2026· News
Illustration: colourful backpacks and sports bags lined up beside a coach on a sunny summer morning, no people in the frame.
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A new group of Ungheni pupils has arrived at a camp in Bucharest, through the ARC programme

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.

Ion Calmis·7 July 2026· News
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Illustration: the hall of a rural village culture house set up for a public assembly, with rows of chairs and a projection screen at the front, with no people in the frame.
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The Pîrlița-area merger reaches the public: consultations today in Rădenii Vechi and Pîrlița

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.

Ion Calmis·7 July 2026· News
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Illustration: a small theatre stage with warm spotlights, a red curtain and a few theatre masks and props, with no people in the frame.
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23 children, two teams and a mini-series: Ungheni's third Theatre Camp has begun

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.

Ion Calmis·7 July 2026· News
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Illustration: a renovated, bright school classroom with new desks and freshly painted walls, with no people in the frame.
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Ungheni's „Ion Creangă” high school is being renovated with Norwegian money: the district's second model school

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.

Ion Calmis·7 July 2026· News
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A sober illustration: a judge's gavel and the scales of justice on a wooden table in a dimly lit courtroom, with no people in the frame.
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Ungheni Court sentences a man to 20 years in prison for a murder committed in the town

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.

Ion Calmis·7 July 2026· News
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An excavator digs earth along the line of a dike by a riverbank while two men watch the works; in the far background, the wooded floodplain of the Prut.
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Ungheni reinforces its Prut dike over 2.3 km and adds a riverfront promenade on top

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.

Ion Calmis·7 July 2026· News
A team of boys in navy-and-yellow sports kit, together with their coach, pose on the sand of a beach soccer arena in Chișinău.
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Ungheni's «Viitorul» children join the national beach soccer championship

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.

Ion Calmis·6 July 2026· News
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