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General view of a rural settlement in the Ungheni district, with houses, greenery and hills in the background.
LOCAL

Petrești Council approves amalgamation with Todirești — three months after unanimous rejection

On August 25, in an extraordinary session, the Petrești Local Council approved the voluntary amalgamation with Todirești — the same proposal it had rejected in May, when approximately 300 citizens had also voted against. A consultation meeting is scheduled for September 6 at the Todirești House of Culture. Meanwhile, Todirești has three amalgamation initiation decisions simultaneously in force, each with a different partner.

Ion Calmis·28 August 2026· News
In a function hall, a woman presents a slide titled “The stages of organizing a folkloric expedition”; beside her, on a table covered with a traditional rug, framed pictures and embroideries are on display.
LOCAL

The traditional houses of Ungheni's villages are vanishing. Documenting them has become “an emergency”

A workshop organized by the Culture and Tourism Department at Petrești, on 23 July, raised a problem larger than a single day of sessions: the peasant houses of clay, wood and reed thatch in the district's villages are being lost, against a backdrop of depopulation of more than 22% in a decade, and the ordinary ones hold no monument status. What most often remains is only what someone manages to document — a method with deep roots right here, at Cornova, where Dimitrie Gusti's team was already “reading” the village back in 1931.

Ion Calmis·25 July 2026· Explainer
Illustration: empty plastic canisters and buckets lined up beside a rusty yard standpipe barely dripping water, on dry cracked ground in a rural Moldovan household under harsh summer light, with no identifiable people.
PUBLIC SERVICES

90,000 lei for a well, yet Petrești still has no water: villagers demand an inquiry

Since late June, residents of Petrești commune (Ungheni district) have complained of going days on end with no water at the tap, especially in the “hill area”, and on 5 July they launched a petition to the mayor's office and the Local Council: they want an inquiry, a public schedule of the cut-offs and, if wrongdoing is found, the dismissal of the official in charge of water distribution. Mayor Serghei Gorea had already replied publicly on 27 June that the problem is being taken seriously — the commune dug a new well, for which the Council allocated 90,000 lei — and points to the drought and the heatwave. Petrești, one of the district's largest villages by number of houses connected to the mains (1,052), depends on its own municipal enterprise, Servicom-Petrești, not on Apă-Canal Ungheni.

Ion Calmis·7 July 2026· News