Etiket: Zaanse
Bureau of discrimination cases argues for more female street names: ‘Preferably of Zaanse women’
In Zaanstad, only one in five street names is named after a woman. In Wormerland it is even worse, because there you only have Mariastraat. That is why the Bureau…
Founder Zaanse Summer School stops: ‘Would have liked to continue’
She would have preferred to stay for a few more years, but after ten years the founder of the Zaanse Summer School Margreet Dekker (66) is really retiring. Because not…
Older residents of Zaanse gallery flat have been stuck for two weeks due to a failing elevator
The elevator of the Zaan gallery flat De Helling has been broken for two weeks now. Many seniors live in the flat, some of which find it difficult or impossible…
Zaanse fire brigade keeps youth wet in the Darwin Park and hopes for future growth
The temperature didn’t seem to want to drop on this sweltering evening, but that is certainly not the fault of the Zaan fire brigade. The men from the Botenmakersstraat fire…
New night route to Schiphol pushed through Zaanse throat: “Problems shifted”
The municipality of Zaanstad is not happy with the new nighttime flight path to Schiphol’s Polderbaan runway. Air Traffic Control the Netherlands (LVNL) announced yesterday that residents of Uitgeest, Castricum,…
Burglary and vandalism at Zaanse garden club: “It’s so sad”
Vandals have completely destroyed the garden society Het Westen in Wormerveer. Storage cupboards have been broken open and damaged, plants have been pulled from the garden and the greenhouses have…
Zaanse pastor will paddle for a cleaner environment: “As long as I don’t fall”
At first, Reverend Cornelis Visser is still a bit awkward on his knees on the SUP board, but after a few hundred meters he dares to stand up straight. A…
Mass fish mortality is a mystery: at least 1500 carp died in Zaanse ditch
“It was a horrible sight,” says local resident Marian Joore about the fishing drama that took place last week in the locks at the Korte Ringweg in Zaandam. Hundreds of…
Many young teenagers at the first big Zaanse rainbow parade: ‘Just proud!’
Amy (13) and Isa (12) are waving a rainbow flag in front of the town hall in Zaanstad. “It is nice that so many peers also think about it in…
Zaanse rainbow parade in miniature: ‘showing how colorful the world can be’
“I just don’t have calluses on my hands yet,” says Oscar Salomé Bodelier and shows his thumb with plaster. In a shop window on the west side in Zaandam, the…