The federal cabinet has approved the extension of access relief for the receipt of short-time allowance. Until June 30, 2023, it will continue to be sufficient if at least 10 percent of employees in companies have a work loss of more than 10 percent. In addition, there will be no build-up of negative working time balances. Temporary workers can also be supported.

From January 10, 2023, information on municipal waste disposal will now also be conveniently available digitally for smartphones or tablets.

Since January 20, the Green Week, the world's largest trade fair for food, agriculture and horticulture, has been in full swing. Thousands of people are still drawn to the Berlin exhibition grounds until January 29. Like also the alderman Rainer Schinkel. The tourism association Seenland Oder-Spree (TSOS) represents the entire travel region and thus also the district Märkisch-Oderland.

Johanna Schumann from Class 6b at Erich Kästner Elementary School is this year's winner of the citywide reading competition. She prevailed against the best in class from the other Frankfurt elementary schools.

The honorary child representative Jacqueline Eckardt was pleased very much to be able to welcome a set of guests and above all also many new faces with the first regulars' table child charter in this year some days ago in the WG bar. The regular's table was lifted in the past year from the baptism and finds since increasing Zuspruch.

To support Brandenburg companies even more intensively, the Cottbus, East Brandenburg and Potsdam Chambers of Industry and Commerce have developed a virtual internship and training atlas, which is available in time for the winter vacations via the website www.mach-es-in-brandenburg.de for the entire state of Brandenburg. Through this atlas, students, parents and teachers can easily find the training and internship positions on offer, even "on their own doorstep."

The next season of the driving license exchange concerns currently the driving license owners of the birth cohorts 1965 to 1970, which are still in the possession of a paper document. These must be exchanged by January 19, 2024.

Use strengths and continue to shape the future - On the evening of February 1, the STIC Economic Development Corporation Märkisch-Oderland welcomed to its traditional New Year's reception in the conference room of the STIC in Strausberg.

Almost two years ago, the "Concept for the use and structural development of the Civic Church of St. Mary" was adopted by the city council. This includes the requirement to prepare a regular report on the implementation of the measures. After its January meeting, the steering committee is now taking stock for the first time.

February 9 marks the launch of the Regional Development Fund of the Municipal Working Group Dialogue Forum Airport Berlin Brandenburg. Five Brandenburg municipalities and one Berlin district are paying over 100,000 euros into the fund. This entitles them to apply for funding for projects in the airport region that are of cross-regional and intermunicipal significance and cross administrative boundaries.