Tag: Netherlands
Mayor Dijksma touched by the arrival of refugees: ‘You can see what hardships they have endured’
It is not the first time that Utrecht provides emergency shelter for asylum seekers. This also happened last June. Partly because of all the experiences that the municipality and the…
Exhibition honors the disappeared postal workers of Leersum: ‘The telephone box is now a junk room’
There has been no post office in Leersum for almost 20 years: the last one closed in 2003. Reason enough for the Historical Association of the village to summarize the…
Police drive wanted man in Baarn after chase
Baarn – A police chase ended last night in the center of Baarn. The police saw a car driving on the A30 near Lunteren whose driver was spotted. When the…
Bayan (36) fled Syria and found a new home in Utrecht: ‘I want to work as a teacher again soon’
Utrecht – Bayan (36) doubts whether she can actually tell anything about her neighbourhood. She has not lived in Vleuten-De Meern that long, she says. Moreover, is her Dutch good…
Mayor visits crisis shelter: immediately one hundred asylum seekers from Ter Apel received in Jaarbeurs
In addition to Utrecht, the people were also taken to Stadskanaal, Zuidbroek, Almere and Groningen, a spokeswoman for the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) reported. About…
Strike NS staff also causes delay in the Utrecht region
Many trains outside the region where the strike is taking place, however, are canceled because the staff who would run these trains are on strike. The West region, as the…
Contractor found for remediation drug lab Overberg, cleaning job will start this fall
Because the convicted owner of the site is unable or unwilling to initiate the remediation itself, the municipality has now done so. That this took so long is because a…
Woman who set fire to her house in Wijk bij Duurstede is sentenced to prison and mandatory treatment
The second fire was much more intense. The fire brigade came with large equipment, because the narrow street Langs de Wal was difficult to reach. When emergency services arrived, flames…
Beer festival in Utrecht Wilhelminapark is canceled for fear of damage to trees
The preliminary relief judge of the Midden-Nederland District Court agreed with them; the park is a national monument and must be protected. “The preliminary relief judge is aware that the…
Drought causes cracks in dike at Zegveld
The cracks have formed in various places of the Grechtdijk. “The clay layer, the top layer of the dike, has become rock hard,” explains a spokesperson for the De Stichtse…