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Niemeyer Tobacco Factory in Groningen closes after 200 years

Police aggression in the North: when do you have to show your ID?

US elections: is US media more polarized than the people?

Car dealer in Groningen opens ‘Disco car wash’

RUG responds to reports of discrimination against Chinese students (nearly a week later)
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Drents Limoncello wins prestigious Chinese prize

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Unzipped: Exhibition about Rolling Stones is open!

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Waterhouse Gallery: raising awareness for water, societal, and environmental issues through social art events
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Sinterklaas: treats, poems, and racist caricatures

Forum Groningen to show film as tribute to footballer Diego Maradona

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Groninger Eierbals now available by post

Fries Museum adds peculiar fibula from Swichum to its collection

Dutch National Model Railway Museum in Sneek to sell part of its collection to raise funds

Groninger photographer leads Holocaust ‘adopt a name’ campaign

Rise Up in the North: NonFiction Photo Festival to show the power of protest
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Dutch student grades rise during pandemic whilst mental health suffers

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King visits Drenthe, ignored by window cleaner

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“We were hoping to start making friends in the summer”

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Vlieland football team suffers from serial prankster

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From Chile to the USA: Repak in Emmen eyes up the global market

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8,000 new students at Hanze

Fryske Akademy in Leeuwarden to receive EU subsidy for furthering ‘world-citizen’ education

First students snap up alternate study spots in Oosterpoort

Eco Textieldruk in Groningen unveils new machine capable of producing 60 to 70 medical face masks per minute

Westellingwerf in south-east Friesland opens new service to help match volunteers and charities

New Hanze head announced: Dick Pouwels will head up leadership council
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Improv comedy group considers putting audience members in giant hamster balls

Improv comedy group considers putting audience members in giant hamster balls

by Marjolein Wiersma

Stranger Things Have Happened is an English-speaking improv comedy group in Groningen. The group’s members have been rehearsing online and...

A gateway into a different reality

A gateway into a different reality

by Marjolein Wiersma

Be productive. But don’t forget to take breaks! Work out at home. But don’t forget to relax! Do something creative...

Tour guide Leeuwarden plans virtual tours

Tour guide Leeuwarden plans virtual tours

by Marjolein Wiersma

Interview by Jonas Diercks. Editing by Anna Mastorou. Henk Leutscher is CEO of “A Guide to Leeuwarden”. Before the Corona...

Vice governor of Friesland calls on expats for community initiatives

Vice governor of Friesland calls on expats for community initiatives

by Marjolein Wiersma

In this Covid Chronicle, we spoke to vice governor of the province of Friesland, Sietske Poepjes, about what a provincial...

Hotel in Drenthe rents out rooms during the day for people who are fed up with their partner

Hotel in Drenthe rents out rooms during the day for people who are fed up with their partner

by Marjolein Wiersma

Alderman of the municipality of Emmen, Guido Rink, tells us how his city is coping with the Corona crisis, and...

“You can’t really deliver 5 shots of Jägermeister to someone’s house”

“You can’t really deliver 5 shots of Jägermeister to someone’s house”

by Marjolein Wiersma

Interview by Jonas Diercks Hessel Onstein owns nightclub Shooters in Leeuwarden and talks about the struggle the bar is facing...

From a different perspective

From a different perspective

by Marjolein Wiersma

Everything is different and strange these days. But still or even because of that this time can also be an...

“We were hoping to start making friends in the summer”

“We were hoping to start making friends in the summer”

by Marjolein Wiersma

In this Covid Chronicle, we interviewed Canadian expat Alexis Veenendaal who is currently living in Groningen with her partner....

Groningen may have a drive-in cinema soon

Groningen may have a drive-in cinema soon

by Marjolein Wiersma

Paul de Rook, alderman of the Municipality of Groningen, reveals one of the many short-term ideas that the local cultural...

Party at home like a King with Temple this weekend

Party at home like a King with Temple this weekend

by Marjolein Wiersma

Groningen-based audiovisual collective Temple has quickly adapted to the lockdown. Many of its members live in the same student...

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