Etiket: Frisian
Westerveld gets this Frisian mayor of 34 years. ‘I’ll be speaking Drenthe within a year’
Jouke Spoelstra (34) will become the new mayor of the municipality of Westerveld. Jouke Spoelstra from Drogeham was chosen by the confidential committee from a field of 27 applicants. The…
Meppel musician Timo de Jong dedicates album to Frisian churches
High above the trees, the towers of beautiful old churches stand out on the horizon in the north. This also applies to the desolate Frisian landscape. Many mounds are crowned…
West Frisian skating team is the ‘friends club’ of the peloton
In top sport it is mainly about winning and delivering performance. They feel less pressure at the Wokke Vastgoed skating team. The West Frisian formation attaches much more value to…
Without Royal Steensma from Leeuwarden there would be no Frisian orange cake, but now Americans are in charge: ‘Don’t worry’
Royal Steensma in Leeuwarden supplies essential raw materials for making orange cake. Now the almost 185-year-old family business has been taken over by the large American peer Dawn Foods. Steensma…
Fear of wolves: Frisian pony club no longer dares to go to camp in Zwiggelte
Youth members of the riding association Poptaruters from Dronrijp in Friesland have been going to Zwiggelte for 25 years. But this year the outing will be canceled. The board of…
Statement of the day | You must also be able to speak with authorities in Frisian, Groningen or Drenthe
The Frisian-speaking Fedde Dijkstra did not know what he was experiencing when he continued to speak in Dutch to an ING employee in Leeuwarden with an obvious Frisian accent. Dijkstra…
Extra euros for Frisian language studies at university after concerns about ‘weakening’ of education
Outgoing Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf (Education, Culture and Science, D66) is making 340,000 euros structurally available for university education on the Frisian language. With this amount he implements an amendment by…
SRV is making a comeback and marketing West Frisian regional products
Selling regional products without a middleman. That is the goal of the six initiators of ‘Westfries Vers op de Weg’. They put their heads together and after a year they…
SRV is making a comeback and is marketing West Frisian regional products
Selling regional products without a middleman. That is the goal of the six initiators of ‘Westfries Vers op de Weg’. They put their heads together and after a year they…
Pop prize for Joost, no Frisian flag
Around eleven o’clock on Saturday evening it became clear what everyone was already thinking at the Groningen Noorderslag festival: the 2023 Pop Prize goes to Joost Klein, the man who…