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After 56 Years, Overdue Book Returned To Kópavogur Library
Kata í Ameríku (Kati in America in English), by Astrid Lindgren, was returned to Kópavogur Library during the library’s fine-free week after being borrowed for 56 years — the book was originally due on June 2, 1969. The borrower found the book…
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Pharmacist Fends Off Armed Robbers In Kópavogur
An attempted armed robbery at Austurbæjar Apótek in Kópavogur ended in failure after the store’s owner, Bergljót Þorsteinsdóttir, confronted the robbers and triggered the panic alarm, reports Vísir. On Friday morning, a man and a woman, both wearing motorcycle helmets, entered the…
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Kópavogur Man Pinned By Car
Fire and medical emergency services were called to the rescue of a man in Kópavogur on the evening of February 3, Vísir reports. The man had been pinned by a car whilst repairing the vehicle’s undercarriage. According to Vísir, the man’s car…
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Kópavogur Headmaster Urges Parents To Mind Their Manners
On January 22, the headmaster of Kópavogur primary school Hörðuvallaskóli sent a mass email to parents of the school’s students. In it, principal Sigrún Ólöf Ingólfsdóttir encouraged adults to mind their manners and language when communicating with the school’s faculty, RÚV reports. …
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Construction Starts On Fossvogsbrú Pedestrian Bridge
On January 17, Minister of Transport and People’s Party MP Eyjólfur Ármannsson will ceremoniously break first ground on the Fossvogsbrú construction project, RÚV reports. The bridge is the first large-scale construction among many surrounding the Borgarlína transit network, and is estimated to…
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Just Outside The City Limits
The Kátt á línunni concert series brings the grassroots music scene to Kópavogur “I moved there two or three years ago. Not Hamraborg, but close by, and I’m really content,” says artist, musician, curator, and Kópavogur resident Pétur Eggertsson as we meet…
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Woman Sentenced To 18 Years For Murder
A woman in her 40s was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of her six-year-old son and the attempted murder of her older son. The ruling was confirmed on the morning of November 6, RÚV reports. In January 2024,…
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Time Seems Long Until You’ve Lived It
Childhood friends ponder time on their debut EP Fluid Time With more than four decades’ worth of creative experience, musicians Birgir Mogensen and Sigtryggur Baldursson imbue their childhood influences into their newest project, Paddan, releasing their debut EP Fluid Time on May…
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Police Search For Two Men Following Cash Truck Heist
Two men absconded with roughly 30 million ISK from a cash transport van parked making the rounds in Kópavogur on Tuesday. The thieves left behind money bags which were found scattered in Mosfellsbær later the same day. While security guards collected money…
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Picture Story: Guardians Of The Geldingadalsgos
Iceland’s civil defence relies heavily on local search and rescue (SAR) teams, highly-trained volunteers who undertake a huge range of tasks from searching for missing people to mountain rescue and disaster response. They’ve been particularly busy these past few months, helping visitors…
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Six Dogs Die In Kópavogur Fire
A devastating fire in Kópavogur the day before yesterday killed six dogs, Vísir reports. Erna Christiansen, a young dog breeder, had taken one of her dogs, Lola, to the vet in the afternoon. Five minutes after leaving she received a panicked phone…
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Kópavogur Rescue Team Announced BDSM Party
Some Icelanders were quite astonished to receive an invitation to an epic BDSM party from none other than the Kópavogur rescue team, Vísir reports. Members of the BDSM Society were offered a fair price of 1,000 ISK, while non-members would have to…
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Man In His 60s Seriously Injured Following Home Invasion
Yesterday, three men broke into a private residence on Melgerði in Kópavogur and viciously assaulted a man in his 60s, reports MBL. The trio had arrived at the street in a cab they refused to pay for, before proceeding to break into…
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Iceland Even Has The Best Speed Bumps In The World
Football, beautiful people, best per capita everything and financial crashes–Iceland is the best in the world. And now we even have the best speed bumps. All over the world people have been raging about the 3D speed bump in the town Ísafjörður…
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UPDATE: Man Just Couldn’t Wait To Shoot His Gun
Police have arrested the man who shot off a gun in Kópavogur earlier this week, reports RÚV. Police confirm that the man confessed to the gunfire and his excuse was that he had just had the weapon serviced and simply couldn’t wait to…
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Gunshots Fired In Kópavogur
Capital Area Police were called to Kópavogur at around 21:00 last night after reports of gunfire in Grundahverfi. As many as five police cars were reported on the scene and one from the police’s special forces. MBL reported that a gun shell…
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Drive-Through Towns: A Day In The Kópacabana
I’m not going to lie—when I suggested to my editor that we should write a travel article about Kópavogur, I was joking. Kópavogur, for non-Icelanders, is a suburb of Reykavík—technically a separate municipality—best known for Smáralind, the largest mall in Iceland. While…
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Happening Today: Bermúda Art Festival In Kópavogur
The youth, they’re always up to something. And it’s no different in Kópavogur. Three young, creative minds collaborate to bring the Bermúda Art Festival to town. The aim is to feature distinct and peculiar pieces that might not normally be showcased in…
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BLUSH: A New Intimate Pleasure Store
BLUSH just opened its doors last Saturday. The intimate pleasure store — situated at Hamraborg 5 — is decorated in a minimalist style, highlighting a range of quality sex toys. After five years of success with her online shop, owner Gerður Huld Arinbjarnardóttir decided…
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Cycle Music & Art Festival: Conceptual Art Comes To The Suburbs
This August, an exciting new festival comes to Kópavogur. Cycle Festival, a four-day interdisciplinary arts extravaganza, will showcase unconventional works and collaborations in unfamiliar performance venues, with the goal of making audiences reconsider their preconceptions about genre, discipline, and the spectator’s role.…
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News In Brief: January 2015
January was just chock full of fun and surprises, news-wise. Well, more surprises than fun, but you take what you can get. One of the more refreshing surprises came shortly after Björk announced her new album, ‘Vulnicura’, would be coming out this…
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So What’s This I Hear About Men’s Pay Being Reduced To Match Women’s Salary?
The town of Kópavogur, which borders Reykjavík, lost a salary discrimination case at the end of January. The Welfare Ministry’s Complaints Committee for Gender Equality judged it to have unlawfully paid one of its female employees 7% less than her male colleague.…
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Justin Timberlake, A Review
Eight million sweating preteens were packed into Kórinn Sports Hall in Kópavogur on Sunday, August 24, all for one purpose: Justin Timberlake. Also in attendance were those who were alive to have experienced him firsthand in his original incarnation as a tortured…