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Jaani Tassa, Mens Winner 2014 - Score of 82.   The LEM 60th Anniversary Golf Tournament bought together over 40 golfers at nearby Woodlake Country Club. Despite a few afternoon showers, all players were able to finish their rounds and retire to the 19th Hole to share golf tales and...

Pillerkaar, Estonian Folk Dancers, will be performing at the annual scandinavian festival: Scanfest on Sunday, August 31 at 12:00 pm and at 3:00 pm at the Longhouse Pavillion in Vasa Park at Budd Lake, NJ. Come and watch them dance and forward this note to your friends – especially those...

Understanding Jaan Kaplinski   An introduction to Estonia's internationally best-known writer and intellectual. Are we ill-suited for this world? Among Europe's major contemporary poets, Estonia's Jaan Kaplinski offers a rare vision of human advancement and fulfillment: the less we intervene the more we flourish. But how then can we remain...

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The Baltic Way was a major media event all across the globe. Hundreds of journalists were filming the Baltic Way and it was broadcasted by all major news channels of the world. News agency Reuters was one of the first to report from the Baltic Way, claiming that the action...

ERR News wrote about new local craft beers last week, but missed one from an internationally well-known brewery on the other side of the world that got its start in rural Saaremaa.   Last  week, California's Anchor Brewing Company introduced  Saaremaa Island Ale, a medium-bitter pale ale that was fermented...

The Estonian American National Council invites you to two very special events on Saturday, September 27, 2014, in Stamford, Connecticut – the 2014 EANC awards dinner, and a panel discussion to mark the 70 years since the September 1944 flight from the Soviet invasion of Estonia! Recipients of EANC’s 2014...

Katie Vesterstein  Photo: facebook   July 20, 2104 Duluth News Tribune writes:   Local skier selected to exclusive training school   Duluth-native Katie Vesterstein was selected to train at the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Total Educational and Athletic Model Academy in Park City, Utah.   The Team Academy was developed...

ERR - The tech site Gizmodo has profiled one of the more evocative locations in Estonia, Rummu quarry. With its lost/sunken world aesthetic and stark relief, the place has become a popular destination for a day trip from Tallinn and has been frequented by movie location scouts (think Andrei Tarkovsky...

TBT - Temperatures in Latvia have exceeded 37 degrees for the first time in the country's history, weather experts say. On the 4th of August meteorologists registered 37.8 degrees Celsius in Ventspils. The previous record for Latvia was 36.7 Celsius in Ventspils. On the same day, temperatures in Rucava reached...