Tag: UTRECHT
Podcast Broos episode 1: The environment doesn’t understand what it’s like
Broos also follows Wiljan de Jong, owner of café Domkop in the center of Utrecht. When he has to close his pub in mid-March 2020 due to the corona measures,…
Summer vacation is coming, Ukrainians have to move from host family to shelter
Utrecht – Municipalities are preparing for a new influx of Ukrainian refugees. Not from Ukraine itself, but from host families in the Netherlands. They want to stop the reception, for…
Who will pull the longest straw in the Utrecht playground on the Lauwerhof?
Local residents are now pinning their hopes on VVD councilor and committee spokesman Gertjan te Hoonte, who is committed to the playground. Last month, Te Hoonte raised the issue when,…
John van Loen must protect a club in Georgia from relegation
Locomotive Tbilisi lost seventeen of the eighteen league matches. Gagra, the number penultimate in the ranking, already has 15 points more. Van Loen was the head coach of the amateurs…
Who will pull the longest straw in the Utrecht playground on the Lauwerhof?
Local residents are now pinning their hopes on VVD councilor and committee spokesman Gertjan te Hoonte, who is committed to the playground. Last month, Te Hoonte raised the issue when,…
Four Utrecht municipalities stop controversial algorithm against fraud detection
Utrecht – Houten, IJsselstein, Lopik and Nieuwegein will stop using the ‘fraud score card’, a controversial method for detecting fraud with social assistance benefits. The four Utrecht municipalities let you…
Jesse Puts with mix team Netherlands fifth in 4 x 100 meter freestyle
Puts formed a team in Budapest, Hungary, with Stan Pijnenburg, Tessa Giele and Marrit Steenbergen. They clocked a time of 3.24.24 and finished fifth. The gold went to Australia, which…
Members’ Council of the Cyclists’ Union agrees to appoint Gilbert Isabella as chairman
The members’ council of the Fietsersbond in Utrecht has approved the appointment of Gilbert Isabella. He will be the new chairman and will succeed Franc Weerwind, who resigned in December…
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…
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,…