The state of North Rhine-Westphalia has issued an ordinance that regulates the corona quarantine regulations for affected citizens uniformly across the country. After that, the quarantine obligation now applies immediately and automatically in most cases. This helps those affected who are waiting for their test result, who tested positive, or who have had close contact with someone who tested positive. At the same time, the [...]
Bocholt (PID). On the initiative of the Bocholt volunteer agency, Bocholt retirement homes and the initiative “Helping hands of the parish of St. Josef” have set up a daily courier service for corona second tests. From Monday to Friday, the facilities will in future hand in their second Corona tests at the central collection point "Good Shepherd" on Karolingerstrasse. From there they are immediately sent to [...]
The planned celebration on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of peace along the German-Dutch border had to be canceled this year due to the corona. Aalten's mayor Anton Stapelkamp was all the more pleased that there was still an occasion to come together at the end of 2020. The Dutch community had given the city of Bocholt an Anne Frank freedom tree. The chestnut was this afternoon at the memorial of the former city forest camp [...]
On Friday, December 4, 2020, initiator Rosi Tuente from the St. Michael Congregation in Suderwick will open the “3. International crib tour in Dinxperwick ”. Until January 6, 2021, visitors can marvel at nativity scenes at 53 locations. The locations are in Suderwick as well as in Dinxperlo and Breedenbroek. A flyer about the course of the route is in many [...]
Bocholt (PID). Especially this year, which was under the motto “Vacation at home”, many will have come to appreciate their own garden again. A garden can not only offer recreation for people, but also a habitat for many plant and animal species. The city draws attention to the biodiversity funding program, which focuses on biodiversity [...]
Bocholt (PID). From Monday, December 7th, 2020 to Friday, December 11th, 2020, trees and bushes will be planted at the ironworks weir. Benches are also set up. Six weeping willows and rows of bushes are planted along the cycle path to the weir. “A weeping willow grows quickly into a medium-sized tree. Due to the wide, strong and vertical to the [...]
Bocholt (ots) - Unknown perpetrators stole tools from a building site in Bocholt on Friday night. The loot includes various Husqvarna and Makita devices. The crime scene is on Ulmenweg. The police asks for information to the criminal investigation department in Bocholt on Tel. (02871) 2990.
Bocholt (ots) - The 17-year-old driver of a light motorcycle suffered minor injuries in an accident in Bocholt on Friday. The young person wanted to turn right from Schwanenstrasse onto Westring at around 08.00 a.m. coming from the city center. The Isselburger stopped at the red light at the traffic light and drove off when the light signal [...]
The city party demands that the decision made by the CDU, FDP and the mayor on Wednesday not to renovate the railway switch to the main track to Mussum and thus to effectively shut down the line to the industrial area, is not implemented. Reason for the so-called “suspension of execution”: “There are two resolutions from [...]
In the Borken district, 897 people are currently infected with the corona virus. That is 22 more than yesterday. In Bocholt, too, the numbers rise again slightly by 4 to 155. The “7-day incidence” in the Borken district is currently 90,8 per 100.000 inhabitants.
Involvement in music or sports clubs, “neighborhood help” for sick and elderly people, and much more: volunteering has a wide variety of faces: In Germany, more than 31 million people do volunteer work. This picture is also reflected in the district of Borken: More than 50 percent of those over 16 years of age support others in their free time. Since […]
Bocholt (ots) - A pedestrian suffered minor injuries in an accident in Bocholt on Thursday. The 21-year-old crossed Berliner Platz at around 18.15 p.m. A passing vehicle brushed them, explained the Bocholterin. According to her, the car moved away, although the injured party was still knocking on the side window. Investigations into the [...]
By BIANCA MÜMKEN by trucker and tenor Winni Biermann there will be a new song soon. Together with musician Claudia Hirschfeld and producer Ady Zehnpfennig, Biermann recorded and arranged the carnival hit "The Grim Reaper" and also participated in a video shoot for it. "The musical instrumentalist Claudia Hirschfeld heard my voice on YouTube and Facebook and [...]
How should people in the city be protected from gunmen? The Main and Finance Committee discussed this question just a few days after the incident in Trier. The left had applied for retractable bollards to be installed in some streets. They could later also be used for access control in the city and [...]
The SPD wanted to have 20.000 euros secured in the 2021 budget for a funding fund to finance corona-related additional expenditure for retailers, businesses and self-employed people and had submitted a corresponding application to the main and finance committee. Mayor Thomas Kerkhoff, the administration and the CDU were against it. "To what extent additional funds will be required in the next year, also taking into account [...]
