Etiket: Drachten
Residents of Drachten care flat evacuated due to fire in meter cupboard. Seventy residents have not yet returned home
A fire briefly raged in a care flat on Haverstuk in Drachten on Sunday afternoon. Because of the smoke, the fire brigade evacuated the people and animals in the apartment.…
Athlete Fabian ten Kate from Eelde takes silver at the northern championship in Drachten
Nearly 200 runners started the northern 10 kilometer road championship on Sunday morning at 11:00 am at the athletics track in Drachten. Almost 31 minutes later, the first champion was…
Study at the RUG in Drachten gives this professor a boost. ‘We are extremely ambitious’
Drachten will welcome a full-fledged university education in September, provided everything goes according to plan. “This will give the northern economy a boost,” says scientific director Paris Avgeriou. “And this…
First: University of Groningen starts university course in Drachten ‘as the next step on the way to ‘Silicon Valley’ of the North’
A remarkable development in Drachten: there will be a university education. The University of Groningen (RUG) is starting a post-master’s study there. The two-year, internationally recognized technical course Autonomous Systems…
Tractors block A7 near Drachten: ‘Forging iron now that it is hot’
Dozens of tractors blocked the A7 near Drachten on Friday. With a fire on the roadside, beer and even a caravan, the activists prepared for a long evening. The tractor…
Dirk van de Klooster is going as programmer of pop venue Iduna in Drachten, Edwin van Andel is coming. For fans and ‘users’
Programmer Dirk van de Klooster put the Drachtster pop venue Iduna on the map, resulting in sold-out venues. Now it is up to his successor, Edwin van Andel. He has…
Boy (21) from Drachten punished more severely than demanded and has to go to jail for a serious accident at a scooter meeting in Groningen. ‘Very disturbing facts’
The boy from Drachten (21) who hit an oncoming car last year during a competition at a scooter meeting in Groningen, has been given a heavier prison sentence by the…
Living Color reclaims rock in Drachten, in a set full of color, spectacle and meaningful covers | review ★★★★☆
Four black musicians who mastered heavy rock and reclaimed it, that was pretty much the pitch when Living Color came along around 1988. That, plus the involvement of Mick Jagger,…
Comedian Jan Beuving sings his best work in Groningen, Meppel and Drachten: ‘Ultimately I am a storyteller’
After six cabaret programs, Jan Beuving makes an interim assessment. In the short tour ‘Resumé 1’ he will sing the very best again. “When you write a song, you impose…
A flowering banana plant far from the tropics, in an allotment garden in Drachten: ‘It makes me very happy’
A banana plant is blooming in an allotment garden in Drachten. As if it were in the tropics. “This is really special.” Mila Balgobind was busy with the peppers, courgettes…