The District Council announces that Ungheni is one of the two districts chosen nationwide for a three-year pilot project, funded by Italy, that prepares small and medium-sized farmers for European rules. The project has 4 million euros for the whole country; how farmers can sign up has not yet been announced.
On 21 October, the Government approved the establishment of 34 territorial agencies for education, which take over schools from the district councils. Ungheni district gets its own agency, headquartered in the municipality of Ungheni, which becomes the founder of the primary schools, gymnasiums, lyceums and special education institutions in the district from 1 January 2027. According to the draft decision, the agency will have 24 staff positions, compared with 26 in the district subdivisions being reorganized.
The “Șahul UNește” tournament was played on 25 October in Independence Square, Ungheni, with 380 players, according to the tournament page. Ungheni municipality finished first in the locality ranking, level on points with the village of Măgdăcești in Criuleni district. Ungheni district had the most players: 153.
Ungheni District Council allocated 976,800 lei between 2023 and 2026 to the building of the «Elada» Theoretical High School in the village of Măcărești: the façade, 68 radiators, the heating pipes, one wall, the canteen's sewerage and the joinery in the bathroom and toilet. The public decisions showed only how much had been approved. The acceptance certificates, obtained by the newsroom from the school and from the District Council, now show who did the work and how much was paid: 976,270 lei, seven works, five contractors.
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.
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 Ungheni District Council presented on Facebook the investments in the Todirești and Costuleni gymnasiums. The figures check out in documents — but at Costuleni, out of the roughly six-million-lei package, the district's own money is only the paving (531 thousand); the rest — the thermal insulation and the sanitary facilities — comes from the government and from the Ministry of Education. At Todirești, by contrast, the money really is the district's. All of it, five months before the reform takes these schools out of the District Council's subordination.
Parliament voted the «Restart in Education» reform in second reading on Thursday, 3 September: from 1 January 2027, primary schools, gymnasiums, lyceums and special education move from district councils to Territorial Agencies for Education, subordinated to the ministry. District education departments are abolished. In Ungheni district this means 46 institutions with 11,061 pupils, and the segment that leaves amounts to 335.5 million lei, that is 72.5% of the district budget. The Ministry of Finance calculated that 14 district councils gain from the reform and 18 lose — but it did not publish the list, and Ungheni is not among the examples named.
The president of Ungheni district, Dionisie Ternovschi, published a video on Tuesday from the «Elada» Theoretical High School in Măcărești, saying that the district traditionally allocates money for current repairs there. The District Council's decisions put figures on that statement: 150,000 lei for 40 radiators in August 2025, 265,500 for the outdoor heating pipes in March and another 90,000 for rebuilding the standalone heating system in November — 505,500 lei in a single year, for heating alone. Added to the façade in 2023 and to the canteen wall and sewerage in May 2026, the allocations reach 976,800 lei in four years, for a school left with 19 pupils in grades X and XI.
