Nea Makri

Athens will enforce traffic regulations this Sunday for the 41st Peace Marathon.

Between 8:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., there will be phased disruptions to vehicle traffic, along with no-parking and no-stopping zones on designated avenues and streets in Marathon - Nea Makri, Rafina - Pikermi, Pallini - Gerakas - Anthousa, Agia Paraskevi, Chalandri, and Psychiko - Filothei municipalities.

A disinfecting crew in hazmat suits enters a retirement home at the seaside settlement of Nea Makri, east of Athens, Monday. The center was put under quarantine over the weekend after 12 people - 10 residents and two members of staff - tested positive for the coronavirus. The elderly were taken to Sotiria Hospital in Athens for treatment as they are considered high-risk.

Greek Health Ministry representative Sotiris Tsiodras and National Health Organization (EODY) president Panagiotis Arkoumaneas on Monday visited a retirement home in Nea Makri, east of Athens, which was quarantined the night before after several residents tested positive for the coronavirus. 

A moderate earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale struck off the northeastern coast of Attica on Wednesday morning.

The epicenter of the 11.13 a.m. tremor was located 8 kilometers east of the seaside town of Nea Makri and at a depth of 5 kilometers.

Police in Attica are probing the shooting of a 53-year-old businessman in Nea Makri on Saturday night.

According to investigators, a gunman opened fire on the 53-year-old during a drive-by shooting outside the victim's business on Poseidonos Avenue.

Weather problems persist in central and southern Greece on Friday, as the strong winds are keeping ferries docked and snowfall has blocked a number of roads in various regions.

No ferries sail out of the Attica ports of Piraeus, Rafina and Lavrio due to gale-force winds, except for the large ferries to Aigina and Poros islands in the Saronikos Gulf.

The town of Nea Makri, which belongs in the same municipality as Marathon, is set to get the first marina in the region of northeast Attica.

A study commissioned by the Infrastructure Ministry commissioned for the broader area has found that while southern Attica has several marinas, northeastern Attica has none that are properly licensed.

The Environment Ministry has given the go-ahead for the construction of a large biological waste treatment facility and sewage network which will serve the municipalities of Rafina-Pikermi and Spata-Artemida in eastern Attica.

A man has been arrested after being caught stealing donations for fire victims from a drop-off site in Nea Makri, near the areas ravaged by last month's lethal wildfires, police said on Thursday.

Members of the police's motorcycle-riding DIAS squad detained the suspect, a 37-year-old Albanian national, inside the town gym on Tuesday after receiving a call by a guard.

Firefighters were called to tackle a house fire in the Aghia Marina area of Nea Makri in eastern Attica on Wednesday morning, with the authorities warning of a high risk of fire in Attica, southern Evia and some northern Aegean islands.

Nine firefighters, three tenders and a helicopter are involved in the operation to extinguish the blaze, which has spread to low vegetation.