Ungheni District and Kalisz County exchange visits in September. The agreement that binds them, signed eight months ago, lists eight areas of cooperation — but not a single sum.
The five amalgamation groups take in 27 of the 33 mayoralties in Ungheni district; six ended up outside them — three because they started a group of their own, one because it rejected the merger with reasons given. All the groups counted their population using 2024 figures — some 2,000 more people than there are today, with no effect on the legal threshold of 3,000 inhabitants.
Ungheni Raion Council signed the cooperation memorandum with the LEEN Moldova programme on 30 July. Public procurement data supply the figures: 19.16 million lei of energy contracted by the raion's town halls, lyceums and gymnasiums since 2023, 5.69 million invested in public lighting and 4.09 in boiler houses, and on thermal insulation actually carried out — not one leu out of these procurements. The energy audit, the first step of the method, appears twice in the whole raion, 74,500 lei. The memorandum asks for no membership fee, and its text is public: of the four signatories in the raion, two published it — Costuleni and the Raion Council.
The Cluj-Napoca Local Council voted on 20 July to give 593,000 Romanian lei (RON) for the development of the promenade on Lake Delia in Ungheni. The financing agreement, annexed to the decision of the Ungheni Municipal Council, shows that the first stage costs €288,387.80 — about 5.8 million Moldovan lei (MDL) — and that the Cluj share amounts to €113,247.88, that is 39.3% of the total. The remaining 60.7% is paid by Ungheni. The contract was awarded back in May to SRL Balt-Cons of Pîrlița, for 5,759,683.36 Moldovan lei including VAT, and the request to Cluj had gone out as early as December.
On 20 July the Consiliul raional Ungheni (the Ungheni District Council) awarded the contract for rebuilding the stretch between Romană street and the Oleg Ungureanu — Decebal junction, part of district road L389. The works cost 36 677 184 lei including VAT — 17 139 lei for every metre of street — and went to SA „Drumuri Bălți”, the only company that submitted a bid. The bill is not the district's alone, however: an agreement approved by the two councils splits the cost 75% district and 25% town hall, and the streets in question passed into district ownership only in 2023, handed over free of charge by the town.
The village's community page announced last week that the access to the post office, the library and the cultural centre had been surfaced with asphalt, thanking the commune hall, HelpAge Moldova and the District Council. The procurement documents show the rest: the Zagarancea commune hall put out to tender a road section with access to the village post office and cultural centre, three firms submitted bids, and the contract was awarded to SRL “Balt-Cons” with 344,000 lei excluding VAT, below the estimate of 403,000 — that is 412,000 lei including VAT. The stake is at the other end: in Zagarancea commune, one in five residents has reached retirement age.
The Ungheni Police Inspectorate has replied to the newsroom: in the minors' hearing room fitted out in 2014 — one of only two functional ones out of the eight opened across the country at the time — not a single child has been heard since 2017, because hearings take place at the Ungheni Court, before the investigating judge. The space inaugurated on 24 July and announced by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is a different one, cost around 42 thousand lei and is not meant for hearings: the police confirm it does not meet the requirements of article 110¹ of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The Barnahus-type centre for the Centre region is scheduled only by the end of 2027, and the integrated service that operates in Ungheni admits, under its regulations, women from the age of 18.
The return legs of the semifinals in the Ungheni District Football Cup, the «MAGIRUS», were played on Sunday, 26 July, and settled both finalists. FC Mănoilești won 5–1 at Bumbăta and goes into the final 7–1 on aggregate. In the other semifinal, FC Sculeni led 4–0 at Cetireni at the end of the 90 minutes and had wiped out the entire first-leg lead, but FC Unirea Cetireni qualified on penalties, 5–3.
A 17-year-old girl died on Saturday evening in Stolniceni, Ungheni district, after the ATV she was driving ran off the road and hit an electricity pole. Police have opened a criminal case and say they will establish 'who allowed her access' to the vehicle. Contrary to a widespread impression, age alone does not make driving a quadricycle illegal — a B1 licence can be obtained from the age of 16; the investigation will clarify whether the teenager held a licence and whether the ATV was permitted on public roads. When the answer is 'no', the law does not look first at the driver, but at the person who entrusted her with the vehicle.
