Tag: Netherlands
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…
Still almost white smoke in Amersfoort: ‘Coalition agreement announced next week’
Exactly one hundred days after the elections, Amersfoort is the only municipality in our province that has not yet presented a coalition agreement. But that doesn’t seem to last long.…
GPs are concerned about new corona wave
In a letter to care minister Ernst Kuipers, various associations write that they miss the “urgency at the ministry to direct”. Because hospital staff is scarce, GPs expect more care…
Utrecht University criminologist warns of an increase in the production of illegal tobacco products
For more than a year, a license obligation for cigarette machines has been in effect in the Netherlands. In order to tackle the problem of illegal production, an international collaboration…