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The Board of Directors of Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association (NEWMOA) recently announced that after an extensive and rigorous search process, they have chosen Martin Suuberg to be NEWMOA’s new Executive Director. The Board states that Martin Suuberg has extensive experience in environmental law and regulation, having worked in a...

Dear leaders of Estonian communities all over the world! It is our pleasure to greet you from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. We are trying to make our communication more active and to enhance the cooperation between Estonia and Estonians living abroad; so, please allow me to share...

Tere kõigile! My name is Liam Kivirist and I recently became a member of the Chicago Eesti Maja, but my grandparents (Aelita and Valdek Kivirist) were long-time members when they were living in Glenview. I grew up in an Estonian-American household and during the COVID pandemic, I took an interest...

I believe that Awareness is the number-one ingredient for a healthy and happy body and life. I am therefore spelling it with a capital A. Health is so much more than the absence of disease. It means bursting with vitality, being full of life force, radiating positive vibrations and having...

“Tööle!” Liisi claps. In the early afternoon of Saturday, November 19, the New York Estonian House held its annual November Blood Sausage Workshop. Organized by Liisi Vanaselja Fletcher and Argo Paomere, the workshop attracted about twenty participants, with annual workshop regulars and a few fresh faces coming in from across...

BES Christmas party – December 11th at 3:30 p.m. (Nordic Hall at the Scandinavian Cultural Center, 206 Waltham Street, West Newton, MA) We are pleased to announce that we can celebrate Christmas together again. The program includes a traditional blood sausage Christmas dish, a performance by BES schoolchildren and, of...

The contenders series at Scandinavia House returns this season with screenings of films chosen by the Nordic & Baltic countries to compete for the Oscar nomination for Best International Feature Film! On November 30, see a special screening with Estonia’s official nomination for the 95th Academy Awards, “Kalev” (dir. Ove...

Karl Altau / JBANC The 2022 midterm elections in the United States are in the books. But the counting will continue into December. The election headlines are that the Senate will remain in the hands of Democrats, and Republicans held on to flip the House . Despite the victory, House...

JBANC Managing Director Karl Altau was among the speakers at a benefit for a wounded Ukrainian marine at the childhood home of Grace Kelly in Philadelphia on October 29, 2022. Roman Horodensky, a 20-year-old Ukrainian Marine from Odesa, is currently undergoing prosthetic rehabilitation in Philadelphia. He went to defend Ukraine...

The next in-person “Washington Ukraine Days” advocacy event will be held in Washington, DC November 15-17, 2002. The advocacy event is sponsored and organized by the Ukrainian National Information Service (UNIS), the Washington, DC public affairs bureau of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA). If you are interested in...