Grammatiko

Relatives of those who died in the crash of Helios Airways Flight 522, which killed everyone on board, including 22 children, 18 years ago, paid their respects at the accident site on the mountain of Grammatikos in Attica on Monday.

Bad weather has a lot of Greece under its grip, with snowfall and below freezing temperatures.

A remembrance service was held Wednesday to mark 14 years since an airplane operated by Cypriot airline Helios Airways crashed in the Grammatiko region of Attica, killing the 115 passengers and six crew on board.
The ceremony was attended by politicians, local officials, Cypriot Ambassador to Athens Kyriakos Kenevezos and relatives of the victims.

The capital's main landfill in Fyli, northwestern Athens, is expected to run out of space in under 10 months, meaning that the lingering waste management crisis will be foisted onto the next administration.

A showdown is in the offing between Attica Regional Governor Rena Dourou and local authorities and residents over the operation of a new landfill near the village of Grammatiko, northeast of the capital.
Dourou appears unwilling to back down, having emphasized during a session of the regional council on Thursday that the project will go ahead.

A prosecutor on Thursday ordered an investigation into whether there are any grounds to claims by residents of the Grammatiko area in the municipality of Marathon, northeastern Attica, that a landfill that has started operating in the area is illegal.

A test run on the new landfill was halted on Tuesday following clashes between police and local residents opposed to its operation.

The test run of the new landfill in the village of Grammatiko in the municipality of Marathon, northeastern Attica, will be temporarily halted after clashes on Tuesday between police and local residents opposed to its operation.

The Municipality of Marathon, northeast of Athens, is gearing up for a confrontation after the Attica Regional Authority announced plans for a new landfill at the village of Grammatiko.

The municipalities of Kropia and Megara in Attica are reacting to a report that two disused quarries in their jurisdictions will be used as sanitary landfills to manage the Greek capital's waste, saying the areas are inappropriate.

Two disused quarries, one in Koropi, eastern Attica, and the other in Megara, western Attica, have been picked for use as sanitary landfills for managing the Greek capital's waste, along with a facility under construction at Grammatiko, also in eastern Attica, Kathimerini has learned.