Tag: Netherlands
Tens of millions for Utrecht municipalities to accelerate housing construction
For the area in Utrecht Southwest, 71.7 million will be made available for 6,200 homes in Papendorp, Groenewoud and Kanaleneiland. With that money, for example, a ‘parking hub’ with 2000…
Mayors cooperate in extra reception of asylum seekers
The Security Council has emphasized today that the extra crisis emergency shelter will end on 1 October. Then at least one new reception location must have been realized next to…
The city bird is having a hard time: ‘If the house sparrow falls away, you have a problem’
Then you have birds that build nests in houses such as the house sparrow, the starling and the swift. Because homes are better insulated and holes and cracks are closed…
Neighbor’s household effects provide carers with more than 6 tons
Take a belt buckle with openwork jade. The auction house put the object up for auction with a starting price of 100 euros. That is also a psychological trick, Scheper…
Maarssen theater group leaves disaster years behind and celebrates 90th anniversary
The Vecht region, with what we know today as De Oudhollandse Waterlinie, played an important role in the defense against the French, the Germans and the English. Because of this,…
Mayor Dijksma opens photo exhibition about fifty years of labor migration
According to initiator Sahin Yildirim, the aim of the exhibition is to record the stories of guest workers and pass them on to the new generation. “A lot of young,…
Will the fibula return to Wijk bij Duurstede? For some ‘a dream’, for others ‘unlikely’
For Bart van Asperdt, councilor for D66 in the city, the question is not whether the fibula will return, but when. He has been campaigning for it in local politics…
Widening or moving the infamous bend at Mijdrecht? ‘It is very distressing that we have to give way to a road’
Erik Dijkstra, owner of restaurant Jettiez, is not happy with the plans to put it mildly. “That we have to give way to a road that needs to be made…
New investigation into the death of a 22-year-old man in the center of Utrecht
Utrecht – The police are again investigating the death of a 22-year-old man in the center of Utrecht today. At the Pieterskerkhof, detectives are working on a cherry picker on…
Centraal Museum shows Rietveld chair, bought for ‘a tenner’
Utrecht – The Central Museum in Utrecht is showing a Rietveld chair on Sunday, which was once bought by someone for “a tenner” in a thrift store, but is expected…