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Town of Karditsa boasts Thessaly's first car recharging station
Karditsa in central Greece has installed Thessaly's first charging station for electric vehicles. The station's units feature double sockets, allowing them to charge two vehicles at the same time.
However, users will have to use their own cables to charge up. Financial support for the project was provided by the Green Fund.
Moderate quake shakes central Greece
A tremor measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale shook the region of Karditsa, central Greece, on Thursday morning, based on a preliminary reading by Athens' Geodynamic Institute.
The epicenter of the earthquake, recorded at 11.24 a.m. was located 24 kilometres from Neohori and 42 kilometres northwest of Karpenisi, at a depth of just nine kilometres.
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Tractors to roll out in central Greece on Monday
Farmers in Thessaly in central Greece are set to signal the start of the almost annual strikes by the country's agricultural community, parking their tractors along stretches of the national highway in Larissa, Volos, Karditsa and Trikala on Monday.
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Citizens, businesses largely abiding by anti-smoking law
It was long in coming but widespread enforcement of the anti-smoking law now appears to be a reality in Greece.
The data collected jointly by the National Transparency Authority and Greek Police from inspections indicates that the overwhelming majority of citizens and businesses are complying with the law.
West Nile kills four people in last week
Medical authorities have renewed their call to the general public, especially the elderly and those with chronic diseases, to take the necessary precautionary measures against West Nile virus, which is continuing to spread across the country.
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Two more deaths from West Nile Virus
Two more people died from the West Nile Virus in the week that ended on August 8, according to the a weekly report by the National Health Organization (EODY), published on Thursday, bringing the total number for this year to four.
Both victims were both over the age of 80.
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Tomatoes thrive in Thessaly, with some help from Wagner
A group of farmers from the village of Ilia, near Karditsa, central Greece, who have managed to get their organic tomatoes onto the shelves of sought-after stores in Europe and the US, attribute the thriving of their produce to a musical diet including the German composer Richard Wagner.
Farmers block one lane on national highway in central Greece
Hundreds of farmers have parked their tractors along one lane of the Athens-Thessaloniki national highway at the Nikaia junction in Farsala, central Greece, signaling the start of the latest round of protests by Greek farmers.
Greece's first stevia sweetener processing plant to open in Karditsa
Greece's first processing plant for natural sweeteners made of stevia, a plant native to Brazil and Paraguay, is set to open in the central Greek region of Kardista, the ANA-MPA reported on Thursday.
Former Parliament speaker Dimitris Sioufas, 75, dies
Dimitris Sioufas, a former New Democracy minister and Parliament speaker from 2007 to 2009 died on Friday. He was 75.