Tag: Netherlands
Pub owner gets community service for threatening Nieuwegein mayor: ‘He will die. I have nothing to lose.’
The boas who listened to the innkeeper during the closing of the cafe found the threats so serious that they warned the mayor. He reported it to the police because…
Open Mic Amersfoort in Park Randenbroek stops after three editions: ‘Because the municipality has said so…’
In Amersfoort you need an event permit in public spaces if you expect more than 150 visitors, when the music is amplified, when alcohol is sold, when objects are placed…
Jaco makes light sculpture at Utrecht Central Station for 900-year-old city: ‘Still a lot to do, but it’s getting there’
“Look, this is a laser cutter,” says the Utrecht artist who works from the former Pieter Baan Center on the Gansstraat in Utrecht. Under a kind of copy machine, a…
Nuisance for travelers and residents for a week due to work on the Amersfoort Central railway track
There is a lot of work going on at Amersfoort Central these days. At the station at track 4, the sleepers, the track gravel and the overpass will be renewed.…
Three Utrecht residents suspected of brutal assault and murder of a vulnerable man in Lunetten
According to the Public Prosecution Service, 51-year-old Bruno S. and 41-year-old Pascal G. from Utrecht, together with the other suspect, assaulted, robbed and robbed 61-year-old Yuval Accos in the night…
Truck builder Ginaf continues under German flag
Ginaf was founded in 1948, by the Van Ginkel brothers. In 2011, the company was hit hard by the construction crisis. After bankruptcy, the manufacturer was taken over by a…
Ukrainians try to get a residence sticker in Nieuwegein, but the IND cannot apply for it
When you walk past it, you might suspect that the demand is not great, but appearances can be deceiving. If you try to make an appointment online, you will not…
About 70 refugees are given temporary shelter in the former office in Veenendaal
Veenendaal only wants to use the elongated building on Wageningselaan for a short period of time for reception: the refugees can stay there until 1 October 2022. The so-called crisis…
Foreign grant for two Utrecht scientists
The researchers who will receive the grant are Hanne Duindam from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Lieke van de Haar from UMC Utrecht. Duindam is moving to Cambridge University…
Spraying, spraying, spraying: this is how fruit grower Oskam saved his ‘boiling apples’ during the heat
These were exciting days for fruit grower Wim Oskam from Werkhoven during the heat last week. On extremely hot days, his apples reached a temperature of over 40 degrees. “That…