Over the coming weeks, Gunnella Hólmarsdóttir will be running the HREINSUM HAFNARFJÖRÐ Snapchat and Instagram accounts. There she shares practical tips and methods for, among other things, sorting household waste and litter-picking in the local area, as well as providing other advice. Gunnella Hólmarsdóttir is a mother of two from the Kinnunum area who, like many others, wonders about it every day […]
The slip roads between the Reykjanesbraut and Strandgata in Hafnarfjörður will be closed on Thursday, 11 April. The area is likely to remain closed all day and possibly into the morning of Friday, 12 April. The slip roads are being cut open to lay a hot water pipe. You can use the new flyover at Hellnahraun, Hvaleyrarhverfi and […]
From 11 April to 20 May, clean-up days will be held in Hafnarfjörður under the slogan CLEAN UP HAFNARFJÖRÐ. Residents of all neighbourhoods in Hafnarfjörður are encouraged to take an active part in cleaning up Hafnarfjörður. A street or neighbourhood clean-up day offers a fun social gathering. Requests for bags to be collected after neighbourhood clean-up should be sent to hafnarfjordur@hafnarfjordur.is – there are already some […]
Sweeping of streets, pavements and footpaths in Hafnarfjörður begins tomorrow, Tuesday 9th April. Last year, sweeping began around the same time, but the weather has started to get quite good for spring work. The town is divided into 15 districts and these are signposted the day before sweeping with notice of the planned operation. At the same time, the central islands will be washed. […]
From 11 April to 20 May, clean-up days are taking place in Hafnarfjörður under the slogan 'CLEAN UP HAFNARFJÖRÐUR'. Residents in all neighbourhoods of Hafnarfjörður are encouraged to take an active part in the clean-up, and it is an ideal opportunity while the clean-up days are underway to get to work in the garden, pruning bushes and flower beds. Special attention is drawn to the fact that […]
The short-stay unit Hnotubergi recently received a grant from the Public Health Fund for the project: Health Promotion for Disabled People. There is great ambition and enthusiasm to improve the public health of people with disabilities, and this year the focus will be on encouraging service users to take up exercise and to try an activity or leisure pursuit they have not tried before. The aim […]
Eighteen young people from Sveio in Hordaland, Norway, came to visit Hafnarfjörður recently, accompanied by a distinguished entourage. The Youth Council from Sveio in Hordaland, Norway, contacted the Hafnarfjörður Youth Council last year and led the delegation, along with the mayor of Sveio, a small community of 3,600 people, on a visit to Hafnarfjörður from 28th to 31st March. The purpose of the trip was to look at […]
The final of the Grand Reading Competition in Hafnarfjörður was held at Hafnarborg yesterday for the 23rd time. All of Hafnarfjörður's primary schools send representatives to the competition, two from each school, and this year there were therefore 14 contestants in total. At the event, the pupils performed an extract from a work of fiction and a poem, and at the end, the judging panel selected the three best readers and awarded them special […]
Today, registration for Hafnarfjörður's nurseries for autumn 2019 opened. In this allocation, children who are transferring between Hafnarfjörður nurseries and children born between July and December 2017 will receive a letter with their placement. Children born between January and May 2018 will also be allocated a nursery school place, starting in the autumn. That allocation will take place […]
A town council meeting has been called for Wednesday, 3rd April. The formal meeting will begin at 14:00 in the town council chamber at Hafnarborg, Strandgata 34. The agenda for the meeting can be accessed here. The meeting can be watched live here.
