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Illustration: a piece of construction machinery lays down a road surface on an urban site, next to the metal structures of market pavilions, on a sunny day.
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Ungheni is building two access roads to its new agri-food market

The city of Ungheni has begun building two access roads to its new agri-food market — one from Decebal Street, the other from Ciprian Porumbescu Street. The work, carried out by Servicii Comunale, is a related part of the 17.5 million lei project that is raising the market, funded through ADR Centru and the National Fund for Regional and Local Development. Their purpose, according to mayor Vitalie Vrabie, is to distribute traffic and ease the congested access from Decebal, near the PECO filling station.

Ion Calmis·8 August 2026· News
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Illustration: a freshly asphalted city street with white markings, lined by apartment blocks and trees, in morning light — a symbol of the roads financed through municipal bonds.
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Ungheni launches its 10-million bond issue on Monday: what interest it pays and the minimum you can buy in

From Monday, 10 August, the municipality of Ungheni opens its public offer of bonds worth 10 million lei — the money it will use to repair its streets. After the terms were only draft in July, the National Commission for Financial Markets approved the prospectus on 4 August, and the figures are now firm: 10,000 securities of 1,000 lei each, split into three classes, with interest rates of 9.5%, 10% and one floating rate, over 2, 3 and 4 years. An Ungheni resident can buy from 5,000 lei, and in the first two working days the offer is reserved for individuals. Victoriabank intermediates the subscription.

Ion Calmis·8 August 2026· Explainer
Illustration: the yard of a kindergarten on a summer day, with a slide and empty swings, the gate closed, and the institution's building in the background.
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All 7 kindergartens in Ungheni close between 17 and 26 August for sanitation and repairs

All seven kindergartens in the municipality of Ungheni suspend their activity from 17 to 26 August, according to a mayor's order. During these ten days the premises undergo sanitation, pest control and routine repairs, ahead of the new school year. The decision rests on the Regulation on enrolling children in preschool institutions, approved in 2023. One question raised by parents in the comments remains: what those who work are to do with their children during this period.

Ion Calmis·8 August 2026· News
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Illustration: a village lane with a dirt road, a plank fence and the closed wooden gate of a household, against a backdrop of hills, in summer light.
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Second rabies outbreak in Ungheni district in a week: confirmed case in Măgurele

A week after the village of Rezina, the Emergency Situations Commission of Ungheni district has imposed restrictions in Măgurele as well. Through Decision No. 11/E of 6 August, the commission approved a plan of anti-epizootic measures, after the Territorial Subdivision for Food Safety confirmed, on 4 August, a case of rabies in the village. The measures are of the same type as those in Rezina — the sale and movement of animals within the locality stop, animals are vaccinated as a matter of necessity, and the restrictions are lifted 30 days after the last case. The decision does not specify the species of the infected animal. Anti-rabies vaccination of dogs, cats and ferrets remains mandatory throughout the district, and any bite means a trip to the doctor the same day — the prophylaxis is free.

Ion Calmis·8 August 2026· News
Illustration: a horse and its rider in mid-leap over an obstacle, on an equestrian competition field, in warm summer light.
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The “Iacob Ciachir” equestrian Cup returns to Ungheni on August 15, for its seventh edition

On August 15, from 14.30, the Ungheni Deal riding school hosts the seventh edition of the “Iacob Ciachir” Cup — the town’s only equestrian competition. The name is no accident: Iacob Ciachir was the director of the “Prut” state farm, the man under whom Ungheni had, from 1967, a stud of over 120 horses, some of them English thoroughbreds — a stud that, according to local history, had made the town famous across the entire Soviet space. The equestrian tradition, extinguished after the Soviet period, was revived in 2018 by the young people of JCI Ungheni, together with the Republican Riding School.

Ion Calmis·8 August 2026· News
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The Ungheni motocross track during the rebuilding works: waves of freshly worked earth, banked turns and access roads cut into a valley whose slopes are covered with grass and shrubs, and on the ridge, in the distance, a house.
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Two major motocross rounds at Ungheni: the national championship on 30 August, the Balkan one in September

On 30 August, in Ungheni, the third of the five rounds of the Republic of Moldova motocross championship is contested: start at 11.00, free entry. The track in the Valea Rusului area, opened in August 2025, is being rebuilt after torrential rain. And on 19–20 September, in the same place, the Republic of Moldova's only round of the Balkan Championship is run — one of the nine, in six countries.

Ion Calmis·6 August 2026· News
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Illustration: a construction drawing spread out on a wooden table, with a pencil and a ruler beside it, a stack of stamped files and an open laptop showing an online form, in the warm light of a window.
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313 building permits and certificates in Ungheni district. From 2027, issued only digitally

The chief architect's briefing note, presented on Tuesday to the Ungheni District Council, sets out how many permissive acts the district's mayoralties issued in 2025: 150 urban planning certificates for design, 95 building permits, 32 demolition permits, 31 informative certificates and 5 change-of-use permits. The document also announces a deadline that changes the procedure for everyone: from 1 January 2027, permissive acts will be issued exclusively in digital form, through the state platform SIA GEAP. It also recalls two little-known procedures: the list of works that require no permit at all — among them, one-storey houses under 150 square metres in villages — and the route for registering houses built after 1996 without documents, whose window closed, however, on 30 January 2026.

Ion Calmis·4 August 2026· News
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The two teams walk out onto the football pitch, one in yellow-and-black shirts reading FC Mănoilești, the other in navy blue reading FC Unirea, accompanied by referees in light blue kit, under a clear sky.
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2–1 against Unirea Cetireni: FC Mănoilești take the Ungheni district «MAGIRUS» Cup

FC Mănoilești won the Ungheni district football cup, the «MAGIRUS», after a 2–1 against Unirea Cetireni in Sunday's final, on 2 August, at the Municipal Stadium in Ungheni. The team coached by Constantin Timoftică led 1–0 at half-time through Bogdan Andrușca's goal and made it 2–0 in the second half through Valentin Lîsenco, while Cetireni pulled one back in the last passage of play, through Alexandru Duminică. This year's edition brought together 12 teams from the district.

Ion Calmis·4 August 2026· News
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Illustration: an empty village lane with an unpaved dirt road, a plank fence and the closed wooden gate of a household, against a backdrop of vine-covered hills in the warm light of sunset.
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Rabies confirmed in Rezina, Ungheni district: animal sales banned in the village for 30 days after the last case

On 30 July the Emergency Situations Commission of the Ungheni district approved a 16-point anti-epizootic plan, after the Territorial Subdivision for Food Safety (Subdiviziunea Teritorială pentru Siguranța Alimentelor) confirmed a case of rabies in the village of Rezina, Mănoilești commune. Collecting and selling animals on the village's territory is banned, the movement of animals is halted, and every animal in the village's households is to be counted within five days. The restrictions lift 30 days after the last case — not 30 days after the decision. The act does not state the species of the infected animal; it became public only on 4 August, in a bulletin of the National Food Safety Agency — a dog. In 2025 the Ungheni district recorded four rabies cases — in the public health agency's list, right after Hîncești, with ten. Post-exposure prophylaxis — after a bite, a scratch or contact with saliva — is free.

Ion Calmis·2 August 2026· News