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Illustration: an elderly person's hands holding a phone showing an incoming call from an unknown number, in a modest interior — a suggestion of phone fraud.
LOCAL

«You're being investigated by the SIS!»: an Ungheni woman lost 229,000 lei, and police caught two couriers at the second drop

A 53-year-old woman from Ungheni was manipulated over the phone through a three-step scheme — a code received by SMS, a fake bank employee, then a fake representative of the Information and Security Service threatening her with arrest. She handed over 229,000 lei. As the second instalment, of 220,000 lei, was being delivered, police intervened and caught two couriers red-handed. The case, described by the Ungheni Police Inspectorate, is the third of its kind we have documented in under a month.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· News
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Illustration: diverse hands building together, on a table, a model of a community cultural space — a symbol of European-funded co-creation; warm tones, no identifiable faces.
LOCAL

Who in Ungheni can get EU money for culture? Two calls close on 20 July

Ungheni District Council has announced two funding calls under the European programme EU4Culture II — a €10 million programme, funded by the EU and implemented by the Goethe-Institut, that also covers the Republic of Moldova. The application deadline is 20 July 2026. In the programme's first edition, only Cahul and Orhei won from Moldova; Ungheni was not among them — even though the town already has a cultural scene watered by European money.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· Explainer
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Collage of four young women graduates, each labelled with her name and high school: Ionela Lefter and Anastasia Rusu — «Vasile Alecsandri» High School, Andreea Mușet — «Alexandr Pușkin» High School, and Doina Prepeliță — «Ion Creangă» High School.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Six Ungheni graduates earned straight 10s at the Baccalaureate: the country's second town, after Chișinău

After appeals, six graduates from the town of Ungheni finished the 2026 Baccalaureate with a top mark of 10, not four: Ionela Lefter, Andreea Mușet, Doina Prepeliță, Alexandrina Rîsîpanu, Anastasia Rusu and Nichita Țurea. Nationally the final figure is 114 candidates, up from 85 in the preliminary results. Among the country's towns, Ungheni comes right after Chișinău — and four of the six are from the same high school.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· News
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An old, rusty cast-iron water main dug up in a muddy trench in the middle of a street; water leaks from a joint, with a worn manhole cover nearby.
PUBLIC SERVICES

Ungheni's water is being modernised for tens of millions, yet it keeps breaking: 270 failures in a year on half-century-old pipes

Two outages in two days, on different streets, and the operator itself admits in the notice that „failures on the distribution network cannot be anticipated”. The explanation is in the figures: Ungheni municipality has about 139 kilometres of water pipes, more than 80% of them cast iron and steel aged 45–60 years, and in 2024 there were nearly 270 unplanned failures — around five a week. The big money invested in „Ungheni's water” (a project of about 32 million lei, plus European funds) went, however, to the source and to transport — the treatment plant, the trunk main, monitoring — not to replacing the pipes under the streets. That is why the water is both being modernised and constantly cut off.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· Explainer
A sports court under construction: blue and red rubber tiles laid over a gravel layer, two workers and a project board with the Ungheni District Council logo, a building in the background.
LOCAL

At Ungheni's former boarding school, pickleball and badminton courts are taking shape — after €50,000 from Maramureș

Ungheni District Council is building a sports facility in the yard of the town's former boarding school, at the Educational Centre. After the mini-football pitch built in 2024 with €50,000 from the Maramureș County Council — now used in the 'Prietenia' summer camp — badminton and pickleball courts are 'in the final stretch.' A construction-site board indicates a value of about 1.77 million lei for this stage.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· News
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Illustration: a group of cyclists of all ages riding along a street with a cycle lane, in a town with trees and low-rise buildings, on a sunny afternoon.
LOCAL

On Friday, Ungheni takes to its bikes outside City Hall: 'VeloVineri' returns to a town with 311 cars per 1,000 residents

Ungheni City Hall and the Tourist Information Centre are holding the second edition of 'VeloVineri' on Friday, 26 June 2026, at 4 p.m. — a bike ride starting in front of City Hall. The event is part of the European project CycleRight (Interreg Europe), in which Ungheni is a partner town. Beyond the ride, the stakes are serious: a town with narrow cycle lanes and rising car ownership wants to convince its residents to leave the car at home.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· News
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Close-up of brown eggs in a carton; the central egg's shell is ink-stamped with the code '3MDUN015' and 'DDM: 19.07'.
LOCAL

Eggs pulled from shelves in Ungheni district: food safety agency urges return of batch coded 3MD UN 015 over Salmonella

Moldova's National Food Safety Agency (ANSA) has ordered the recall of a batch of eggs produced by DANT-AGRO LLC in the village of Pârlița, Ungheni district, after Salmonella Typhimurium was detected in samples from the farm's laying hens. Consumers are urged not to eat eggs marked 3MD UN 015 with a best-before date up to and including 20 July 2026, and to return them to the shop with their receipt. It is not the first such alert at the same farm: an identical one occurred in 2022.

Ion Calmis·24 June 2026· News
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.
LOCAL

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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Five girls in green stage costumes in a dance pose with one leg raised high, against a white backdrop bearing the contest logo.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Moldova's flag on the top step in Iași: five gymnasts from Ungheni take first place at «Summer Dance Rhythm»

Five members of the «Santé Gym» club in Ungheni climbed to the top of the podium at the «Summer Dance Rhythm» international dance contest, held on 20 June in Iași. With their «Zânele Pădurii» (Forest Fairies) routine, the girls won first place at a competition across the Prut — in the city twinned with Ungheni for ten years now. A small but living thread of the friendship between the two banks.

Ion Calmis·24 June 2026· News
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