A 30-metre-tall chimney on the grounds of the 'Romanița' Early Education Institution in the village of Chirileni, Ungheni district, has been demolished. The structure was in an advanced state of decay and was considered a danger to children and to nearby residents.
Athletes from Ungheni's Town Station of Young Tourists (SOTT) won all four events of the National Sport Tourism Championship for cadets and juniors, held on 24–28 June near the village of Trebujeni, Orhei district: hiking, mountain, water and cycling tourism. They gathered team gold and a string of individual medals, under the guidance of their coaches.
Near Buzduganii de Jos, Ungheni district, border police detected seven Bangladeshi citizens who were to be illegally taken across the Prut into Romania. In the operation — coordinated by the Ungheni Prosecutor's Office together with the Border Police and the SIS Antiterror Centre — four Moldovan citizens were detained, suspected of organising the route to the European Union. The migrants reportedly paid about 1,000 euros each.
Around 100 children from Ungheni district have set off for the ARC camps in Romania — at Padiș, Cluj county, and Oglinzi, Neamț county — organised by the Department for Romanians Everywhere. For many families it is already a tradition: the children spend holiday days across the Prut free of charge, and for some it is the third summer in a row.
At the peak of the heatwave, Sculeni commune’s City Hall and the “Servicom Sculeni” utility have put water on a ration. From Tuesday, 30 June, the village was split into four sectors, each getting water for only three hours a day, between 9.00 and 18.00. The reason, the authority says: huge consumption for watering gardens and irresponsible use of the network, which collapsed the pressure. Water trouble in Sculeni is not new — the council passed decisions on it in both 2024 and 2025.
The quarter-final bracket of the Ungheni district «MAGIRUS» Cup 2026 is complete: eight teams, four ties, each played over two legs, home and away. FC Barsa Ungheni, through on a bye as leader of the first half of Division B, meets FC Haiduc Bumbăta, winner of the tightest tie of round one. The other three quarter-finals: Sculeni – Zagarancea, Regina Maria Ungheni – Unirea Cetireni, and Speranța Semeni – Mănoilești.
Ungheni City Hall has opened a public vote on the exterior look of the Palace of Culture, now undergoing an energy-efficiency overhaul. There are two façade options — one in light tones of cream, light grey and wood, the other with a contrasting anthracite grey — and residents can choose through an online form until Wednesday, 1 July, 8.00. The works are part of a cross-border project with Iași, funded through Interreg.
The General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations reports three drowning deaths in three days, two of them minors, all in unsupervised spots. The first case, on 26 June, is at Măcărești, in Ungheni district: a 16-year-old boy bathing with friends in a forbidden zone. The 2026 drowning toll has climbed to 31 people, 7 of them minors — up from 18 just ten days earlier. The tragedy came four days after the Ungheni Emergency Situations Commission ordered water patrols, but far from the municipality's two lifeguard-staffed beaches.
The village of Sculeni, in Ungheni district, has gained its own official symbols — a coat of arms and a flag, approved by the commune council, endorsed by the National Heraldry Commission and entered in the register by presidential decree in early 2026. On the azure shield, a stone bridge crossed by a horse-drawn stagecoach points directly to Sculeni’s history as a crossing point and customs post on the Prut. The authors are state heraldist Silviu Andrieș-Tabac and Andrei Gaidașenco.
