Marijuana bust in Nyon, several arrested
NYON, SWITZERLAND – Vaud Police say they have arrested nearly 80 people, part of a ring of drug dealers who have been supplying consumers in the St Cergue-Nyon region with marijuana and ecstasy plus some other drugs.
The ringleaders are a Swiss couple, ages 20 and 21 but the group also had some ties with the refugee centre in Nyon, which has been raided in the past for drug busts.
The group’s youngest person was 14, the oldest 57.
Marijuana crops growing in Arzier and St Cergue were uncovered, with an indoor growing centre in St Cergue financed by the mother of one of the buyers.
The investigations ran from June to December 2010, when the arrests were made.
Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A French driver in his 30s is in serious condition at the Chuv (University Hospitals) in Lausanne, reports the Tribune de Geneve, following an early morning head-on collision near La Givrine, in the Jura mountains above St Cergue. The driver was passing other cars at 06:45 on the snowy road that links France and Switzerland but the line of cars on his side of the two-lane road was too tight for him to get back in line. The other driver, also French and in his 40s according to the paper, suffered rib and hand injuries. La Givrine is some 16 km above Nyon.
Title: Full moon snowshoeing
Location: Geneva to St Cergue, Mollandruz
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Description: Snowshoe across the Jura by the light of the full moon, for individuals or small groups, leaving Geneva for St Cergue or Mollandruz, Vaud: 1.5 hours skiing. CHF80 includes equipment rental, transport, guides, hot wine.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-12-30
Nyon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A man in his 40s has died after he was hit by a train arriving at the Plantaz station in Nyon, when he jumped onto the tracks to push his young daughter out of harm’s way, 5 November afternoon. He had come to pick up his two young daughters from school, and noticed too late that one of them had climbed down onto the tracks as the Nyon-St.Cergue train was pulling into the station.
Title: Alpine descent, cows
Location: St Cergue
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Description: Cows come down from their summer alpine pastures, festive parade
Date: 03 Oct 2009
Swiss windmill
Vaud, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The three communes of St Cergue, Trélex and Givrins will be home to a new windmill park with three of the aeolian structures to go up by 2013. The three are scheduled to sign an agreement Friday afternoon 29 May to work with sol-E Suisse and la Société Electrique des Forces de l’Aubonne (SEFA). Sol-E Suisse is a subsidiary of Forces motrices bernoises (FMB).
Nyon, Switzerland (Tribune de Genève, Fre) – A pilot road project designed to save motorcyclists’ lives on the treacherous route between Nyon and St Cergue was opened 19 May, reports the Tribune. The motorcyclist is physically reminded to slow down thanks to a coating on the surface of the road in strategic spots, with special strips that alert riders. The strips are similar to those on the approaches to French toll booths on the autoroute; they make a tickling noise.
