VV Gasselternijveen tackles possible drug use with a zero-tolerance policy and after years of land dumping in the Grote Moere, residents discovered that this was done illegally. In this overview you can read the most important news in Drenthe of the past week.
The Dingstede school community in Meppel was evacuated for about an hour and a half on Monday morning. This was due to a potentially threatening situation in the school building on Gerard Doustraat. After the report, the school was evacuated and a few hundred students were accommodated elsewhere. When nothing suspicious was found after investigation, the Dingstede students were able to return to the school building.
Soil has been dumped in the Grote Moere in Grolloo for ten years. Thousands of trucks have been driving back and forth for years carrying soil that is being dumped to fill the fifteen-meter-deep sand extraction lake. But now the limit is full, according to more concerned residents. The soil has been dumped illegally all this time. Residents found this out when they looked into the licensing process. And what exactly is in the soil that has been dumped is also a mystery to them.
Gasselternijveen football club will introduce a zero-tolerance policy for drug use. The letter to members about this is still in the making. The football club took this decision after concerned parents reported to the board asking how the club would act if drug use occurred. Chairman Piet Wolters does not have any concrete indications of drug use at the club, but he does not rule it out either.
Together with a team of teachers, Marjan Kolk started the private primary school De Verwondering six years ago because she could not find education that she felt suited her children. When the school started it had six students. This has now grown to twenty and the school wants to move towards public education. The required signatures from interested parents have been received and the process has been initiated.
Residents of Eext are once again in charge of all seven village greens. The local farmer bought the green between the Hoofdweg and the Schaapstreek from the municipality of Aa en Hunze for one euro on Friday after seventy years. The village greens in Eext were the property of the local farmer’s market from the 14th century onwards. This association of free farmers has traditionally been responsible for the maintenance of a village green and could decide who could use the land. In 1952 one village green came into the hands of the municipality, on Friday the village green was changed in the opposite direction.