Staff from Hafnarfjörður Library are attending the National Conference for Library Staff. As a result, there will be a disruption to the library's opening hours at the end of the week. Thursday 29 September: OPEN 13:00 – 19:00 Friday 30 September: CLOSED Saturday 1 October: OPEN 11:00 – 15:00 The due date for materials already on loan that were due on these days will be moved to Monday the 3rd. […]
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Three presentations from the City of Hafnarfjörður
A number of interesting presentations were delivered at the 2016 annual municipal finance conference, which took place on 22–23 September. These included three presentations from staff of the City of Hafnarfjörður, covering private public partnerships, family services and educational services, and drawing on their experience and many years of expertise in these fields. Haraldur L. Haraldsson, Mayor of Hafnarfjörður, has for many years […]
The Health of Young People 2016
A new report was recently published about teenagers in years 8 to 10 in Hafnarfjörður. The report compares teenagers from Hafnarfjörður with their peers in the rest of the country and in the capital region. All students who attended school when this study was conducted took part, or around 85% teenagers in Hafnarfjörður. The report addresses a number of factors in […]
Eight bids from seven legal entities
In early September, the Municipality of Hafnarfjörður invited tenders for six multi-family housing plots in Phase 1 of Skarðshlíðar, a neighbourhood sheltered by a hillside to the south and west of Ásfjall. The deadline for tenders was midday on Tuesday, 20 September, and eight tenders for the plots were received from seven legal entities. This concerns six plots for 18 blocks of flats with 167 apartments […]
Positive environment and experience
Krónan is one of the companies that in August received an award from the City of Hafnarfjörður for tidiness, good housekeeping and a professional contribution to environmental matters. „We at Krónan are grateful and proud of this recognition. All parties involved in the construction of the Krónan in Flatahraun worked together to make the shop and its surroundings as tidy as possible and […]
Eirik Smith
The artist and Hafnarfjörður resident, Eiríkur Smith, has died at the age of 92. Eiríkur was born in 1925 and spent his early years growing up in Straumur, by Straumsvík. The family moved to Hafnarfjörður in 1931, and Eiríkur lived in the town for almost all of his life thereafter. He began drawing ships and boats on scraps of paper he could find at an early age. His drawings attracted […]
Financial Conference 2016
Árleg fjármálaráðstefna sveitarfélaga 2016 verður haldinn dagana 22. og 23. september á Hilton Reykjavik Nordica. Ráðstefnan hefst kl. 10 á fimmtudaginn með ræðu formanns Sambands íslenskra sveitarfélaga, Halldórs Halldórssonar. Á fjármálaráðstefnunni verða flutt erindi um margvísleg efni sem snúa að fjármálum og stjórnsýslu sveitarfélaga. Fyrri daginn verður m.a. tekið fyrir efni sem snýr að efnahag […]
A stylish look for your surroundings
Fjölskyldufyrirtækið Te & Kaffi byrjaði sem lítil verslun með kaffi og te árið 1984 og er nú ört stækkandi fyrirtæki með um 200 manns í vinnu við framleiðslu, markaðssetningu og sölu. Fyrirtækið hefur til fjölda ára verið með framleiðslu sína og vöruhús við Stapahraun í Hafnarfirði og ætti öllum þeim sem leið eiga um svæðið […]
Grooming is an investment
Þegar Héðinn flutti starfsemi sína í Gjáhelluna í árslok 2008 var tekin sú ákvörðun að vanda sem best til umhirðu og stuðla að snyrtimennsku á lóð fyrirtækisins. Það átti ekki bara við um framhliðina sem snýr að viðskiptavinum, heldur ekki síður baklóðina. „Lóðin er 30 þúsund fermetrar og mikilvægt að hafa þar allt í röð […]
Plot offers in Skarðshlíð
Fyrir sjö árum síðan voru íbúar í Hafnarfirði 25.890 talsins. Í dag er talan komin upp í 28.450 og fer hækkandi. Eftirspurn eftir íbúðum á svæðinu er mikil og miða breytingar á skipulagi, uppbygging innviða og sala lóða að því að hægt sé að svara eftirspurn í auknum mæli og taka vel á móti vaxandi […]