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A relaxed crowd, seen from behind, watches a football match on a large outdoor screen in a town square, in the warm light of a summer evening, under strings of lights.
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Ungheni City Hall shows the World Cup on a big screen in the Twinning Square: the matches on 24–26 June evenings

Anyone who would rather watch the FIFA World Cup among people than alone at home has somewhere to go: Ungheni City Hall is showing the matches on a screen, in the evenings, in the Twinning Square, with free access. According to the official poster, two matches are scheduled on each of the evenings of 24, 25 and 26 June. The screenings are part of the town's summer programme, officially opened on 21 June.

Ion Calmis·24 June 2026· News
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A working meeting at an L-shaped table, with the flags of the Republic of Moldova, the European Union and Romania in the background; several participants in suits are talking, one of them speaking and gesturing.
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Ungheni district learns from Buzău how not to miss EU money for water, sewerage and roads

The president of Ungheni district, Dionisie Ternovschi, took part in a working session where a delegation from the Romanian city of Buzău, led by mayor Constantin Toma, shared Romania's experience in attracting European funds. The meeting, organised by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development together with deputy PM Vladimir Bolea, focused on the lessons of the pre-accession period — preparing projects and feasibility studies in good time. Ternovschi says the priorities the district wants to address with such funds are water, sewerage and roads in Ungheni's villages.

Ion Calmis·24 June 2026· News
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A group of about twelve mayors and representatives, each holding a folder with the signed act, posing on the steps in front of a building reading «Ungheni City Hall».
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Swedish support for the Ungheni merger: the ten city halls signed an agreement with SALAR International

On 24 June, the mayors of the ten localities that want to form a single municipality around Ungheni signed a framework agreement with SALAR International — the Swedish organisation running the «PACE Local» project in Moldova with Sida funding. The support, worth up to about 80,000 euros by City Hall's estimate, is to cover the new municipality's development strategy, one-stop service offices and energy audits for the schools in Semeni, Unțești and Brătuleni. But the agreement comes before the vote that will actually decide whether the merger happens.

Ion Calmis·24 June 2026· News
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The crown of a linden tree in bloom, with clusters of golden flowers and green leaves lit by the sun, photographed from below.
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The lindens are in bloom on Eminescu and Veronica Micle streets: central Ungheni smells of summer — but only for a few days

On Mihai Eminescu and Veronica Micle streets in central Ungheni the linden trees are in bloom, and the Culture Department is inviting residents to walk under the 'rain' of golden flowers while the scent lasts. It is a spectacle of just a few days — and a lovely coincidence: the poet whose name the street bears wrote, in his poem 'Dorința' (Desire), of linden flowers that 'fall row upon row'.

Ion Calmis·24 June 2026· News
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Two workers in t-shirts reading «Servicii Comunale Ungheni» laying paving stones on a new pavement, next to a wheelbarrow of mortar and pallets of pavers, at the edge of a street.
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770 metres of pavement with a bike lane on Ștefan cel Mare: a busy Ungheni street will finally have a sidewalk end to end

On a busy stretch of Ștefan cel Mare street in Ungheni — from the former biochemical plant to Podurilor street — a pavement is being built for the first time: 770 metres, with a bike lane, after which the street will have a sidewalk along its whole length. The work is done by the municipal company «Servicii Comunale Ungheni», and it is one item on a list of roads the city is financing in 2026 with borrowed money, through municipal bonds — while residents of other streets are asking for pavements too.

Ion Calmis·24 June 2026· News
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A football referee, seen from behind, raises a red card on a rural amateur pitch; in the blurred background, players in red and light-blue kits, simple goalposts and hills on the horizon.
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Six suspensions and 1,600 lei in fines in the «MAGIRUS» Cup: the return leg that decides FC Barsa's opponent loses three players

The Competition Commission of the Ungheni Territorial Football Association has validated the round of 16 of the «MAGIRUS» district Cup and sanctioned six players with suspensions and clubs with 1,600 lei in fines. Three of the red cards fell in the FC Start Pîrlița – FC Haiduc Bumbăta tie — the match that decides who will face FC Barsa Ungheni — so Sunday's return leg will be played without two Pîrlița players and one from Bumbăta. The heaviest punishment, three matches, went to an FC Barsa player.

Ion Calmis·23 June 2026· News
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An exhibition wall of framed black-and-white photographs of a village of old, in a warmly lit library reading room.
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A village in Ungheni district entered sociology textbooks 95 years ago. Gusti's Cornova returns to Ungheni — in photographs

In the summer of 1931, a team of 55 scholars led by sociologist Dimitrie Gusti descended on a village in today's Ungheni district and studied it down to the last detail — the first Bessarabian village ‘read' scientifically. The expedition's photographer, Iosif Berman, left images that made history. Ninety-five years on, a son of the village, Vasile Șoimaru, sets them beside his own photographs of today. The exhibition opens on Thursday, 25 June, at the “Dimitrie Cantemir” Library in Ungheni.

Ion Calmis·23 June 2026· Explainer
Two high-school graduates, a young woman and a young man, stand side by side beneath the coat of arms of Ungheni municipality, each holding a tablet box and a gift bag with the maib logo.
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Two tablets for two volunteers, in a town that was once the «Youth Capital» yet keeps losing its 20-year-olds

The Ungheni city hall and the bank MAIB awarded tablets to two high-school graduates — Sorina Iachimovschi and Maxim Angheluță — for their volunteering at the Municipal Youth Centre. The gesture is small, but it rests on a surprisingly dense youth infrastructure: two centres, the title of «Youth Capital» and a municipal grants programme. The question it raises is bigger than a tablet: can all this machinery keep a generation at home? National Bureau of Statistics figures show that the number of 20–24-year-olds in the district has fallen by 62% in a decade.

Ion Calmis·23 June 2026· Explainer
A „No swimming” warning sign on a riverbank in summer light.
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After 18 drownings nationwide, Ungheni District sends police and border guards on Prut river patrols

The Ungheni District Commission for Emergency Situations ordered joint patrols by police, rescuers and the border police in swimming spots along the Prut, including at weekends, and found that the municipal water rescue post must be brought up to standard. At the same meeting, emergency-fund requests from four mayoralties were sent back, for incomplete files.

Ion Calmis·23 June 2026· Explainer