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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

The annual municipal finance conference 2016 will be held on 22 and 23 September at the Hilton Reykjavik Nordica. The conference begins at 10 am on Thursday with a speech by Halldór Halldórsson, chairman of the Association of Icelandic Municipalities. At the financial conference, presentations will be given on a variety of topics relating to the finances and governance of municipalities. On the first day, among other things, topics concerning the economy will be addressed […]

The family-run company Te & Kaffi started as a small shop selling coffee and tea in 1984 and is now a rapidly growing company with around 200 people employed in production, marketing and sales. For many years, the company has had its production facilities and warehouse at Stapahraun in Hafnarfjörður, and should all those who pass through the area […]

When Héðinn moved its operations to Gjáhellan at the end of 2008, the decision was made to take the utmost care with maintenance and to promote tidiness on the company's premises. This applied not only to the front-facing area for customers, but equally to the back premises. „The site is 30,000 square metres and it's important to have everything in order there […]

The City of Hafnarfjörður today entered into an agreement with Raddir, an association for quality reading and public speaking, to collaborate on the running of the National Reading Competition in Iceland. The National Reading Competition will continue to be based in Hafnarfjörður, where the competition began 20 years ago. The City of Hafnarfjörður will assist Raddir with the running of the competition, in addition to maintaining the website: upplestur.hafnarfjordur.is, while representatives of Raddir will […]