Khashtarak Village Mayor Hayk Kamalyan was re-elected to office the other day in a race that pitted him against two other candidates.
Tensions continue to simmer in the Armenian town of Ijevan two months after the mayoral election on November 13, 2011.
All four candidates say the election campaign is proceeding peacefully although it takes place against the backdrop of political developments in the town of Ijevan, only 11 kilometres away.
Now, Artamet Ltd. has come in and built the resistor plant. Residents are up in arms over the noise and potential health threats.
In a final gesture before leaving office, members at the November 28 council session passed a resolution by Nersisyan to call in a special auditing firm to check the municipality’s books.
Local elections will take place in Ijevan on November 13 and current Mayor Varuzhan Nersisyan will be running for his fifth term in office.
An estimated 3,000 cubic meters of rock and rubble came crashing down, taking out several electric pylons as well.
On September 27, Hetq reporters travelled to Dilijan to visit the son and daughter duo who tried to commit suicide just two days before.
News of the incident spread like wildfire both locally and across Armenia because the son of Noyemberyan Mayor Vanoush Amirghanyan had somehow been implicated in the sordid affair.
Barekamavan is a small Armenian village straddling the country's north-western border with Azerbaijan.In the past 20 years since independence, the village has gotten smaller still.
During the 30 day period from April 15-May 15, some 300 individuals from Ijevan and the surrounding region came to the migration office and filed applications.
While kindergartens in Yerevan fall under the jurisdiction of the city's municipality when it comes to care and upkeep, it appears that no agency is taking measures to alleviate the numerous problems faced by pre-schools in Armenia's outlying regions.
Political emotions are heating up in the Armenian town of Ijevan in the run-up to the May 29 snap election for city council.
Armenian Made “Natural” Cat Litter Boxes Exported to Holland Located in northern Tavoush Marz, the town of Ayroum was famous for being a center of manufacturing during the Soviet era. The canning factory, once buzzing with conveyor belts and machines, ...
On April 14, a huge sink hole closed a stretch of the Yerevan-Ijevan highway near the village of Hovk, just north of Dilijan. It came as no surprise that the road gave way. I had written about the impending threat six months ago in several Armenian papers. On ...
“Whenever they shoot towards the fields, I put on some music and turn it up real loud; so they don’t hear the shots,”says Parandzem Aghasyan, Principal of the nursery in the village of Chinari. The village of Chinari is the furthest settlement in ...
There are 400 households in the village of Gosh in Armenia’s northeastern Tavush province; 1,200 residents in all. Housing appears to be a pressing problem facing the village, but the extent of the problem differs, according to whom you speak to. There’s ...
An official from the Berd district, who wished to remain anonymous, argued that if water pipes aren’t built in the next 15 years for gravity-fed irrigation water, emigration numbers will rise substantially. Presently, not only is there no construction of ...
Of the four districts in Tavush Marz, Berd is the most remote. One could say the district is cut off; a no man’s land. Local villagers have a hard time selling their crops and dairy products in the large markets. It’s 62 kilometers from the town of Berd, ...
The football field in the town of Noyemberyan reminds one of an unmowed, overgrown field more than anything else. The rusty gate encircling the field is passable to animals and humans alike. I make my way forward along a narrow path through the tall grass ...
There are two roads leading to Sevqar. I am taking the one from Sarigyugh that takes you down into the village. Cows had taken over the village’s only football pitch and were contently grazing on the field’s overgrown grass. They would soon break out of ...
On March 12, 2008, at around 2:00pm, 53 year-old Henrik Abovyan was shot in the left shoulder by Azeri fire along the border in the village of Koti. Mr. Abovyan, a resident of the village of Berdavan in the Noyemberyan district drives a tractor. When I visited ...
There is no public bus service from the town of Noyemberyan to the hamlet of Debedavan. You can pay 350 drams, around one dollar, for a bus that will take you from Bagratashen and drop you off some five kilometers from Debedavan. You’ll have to chose how ...
In 2006, work began on the new 6.3 kilometer Voskepar-Baghanis roundabout located on the Ijevan-Noyemberyan stretch of the Armenia-Georgia highway. The company “EnergyNetConstruction” won the huge governmental road construction contract ...
A portion of the harvest was also turned into preserves at the Ayrum reprocessing plant. During the 1990’s, due to the energy crunch in Armenia, the irrigation pumping station in Ayrum, went into disuse and the vast majority of fruit fields dried ...
The only animals who somehow managed to evade the clutches of the thieves were 4 kid-goats in the shed at the time. Most likely, the rustlers failed to look in the shed thinking that no animals would be kept inside, given the summer heat wave. Baghish added ...
During the course of last week the author of the article in question was able to ascertain the following evidence that further proves that for years on end sand has been extracted from the White Water reservoir located on the Aghstev River without any permission. ...
When employees of the Municipality learnt of our desire to be present at the auction Mr. Tamrazyan telephoned and said that the auction would begin at 3 p.m. This wasn’t the first violation of the auction guidelines. All those wishing to participate ...
Some twenty years ago the White Water reservoir, built along the Aghstev River at the southern entrance to the town of Ijevan, was put into operation. Local poets and news reporters soon began to describe the artificial lake as the beauty of the Aghstev valley.
The suitor proudly proclaimed that I shall never leave my native village. Sadly, there are few young people willing to remain in Barekamavan; only 25 are left.
It is the end of the year, and villages are putting together their 2008 budget proposals. In this regard, the situation is unclear in the office of the Getahovit village head in the Tavush Marz- Should the next budget include the income from 85 hectares of land which, although officially controversial, were actually seized from the community?
A Government Decree dated September 6 allocated 896,772,000 Armenian drams to the provincial region of Tavush for development programs in their communities.