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Beautiful weather and well-groomed cattle
On Saturday 6 April and with wonderfully mild spring weather, the 9th Saanen regional cattle show (Rinderexpo Saanenland) took place on the Wispileparkplatz in Gstaad. Alenia by Tamara Perreten from...
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Graff presents largest square emerald cut diamond in history
With 302.37 carats, top D colour and exceptional clarity, the Graff Lesedi La Rona is a record breaking jewel.Category: Lifestyle
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Emergency structural work at the Plaine Morte glacier lake
At the glacier lake Faverges, structural work has been carried out to divert water from the melted snow into a glacier mill. This will cost around two million francs.Kategorie: Local News
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The Alpina Gstaad looks back over a successful winter season
The Alpina Gstaad has picked up several awards for the winter season of 2018/19. Guests of this luxury hotel have been pampered there for over seven years. These most recent awards are well deserved by...
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Saanenland and Obersimmental have the most organic farmers
No other areas within the Canton of Bern have as many organic farms as the Saanenland and Obersimmental regions and this success story continues to unfold. Every year, more farms convert to organic...
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Definitely a medium-sized regional bank
The Saanen Bank held its general assembly meeting last Friday. Following a very successful previous year, all the significant business figures have risen by a good three percent. In financial terms,...
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Dynamic prices for Gstaad cable cars
The Bergbahnen Destination Gstaad AG (BDG) will be offering dynamic prices next winter, following a Swiss-wide trend.Kategorie: BusinessLocal NewsSports & Leisure
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The Bad, the Good and the Ugly!
Karim Ojjeh shares with us how a rerun of the epic Italian Western film would have given an an epic Italian GT3 race with the difference that the adjectives would have related on how the events of the...
View ArticleA record year for the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy AG
At the general assembly on 15 April, the shareholders of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy AG learned that last season had been a record year. The programme was called "Alps" and 25,000 tickets...
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Müller Medien AG wins a prize
The 2019 Culture Award from the Cultural Association for the Obersimmental Saanenland Pays-d'Enhaut region went to Müller Medien AG from Gstaad.Kategorie: Arts & CultureLocal News
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Landscape idylls
Those who think that Saanenland and the Pays-d'Enhaut are the cradle of paper cutting, can see something quite different in the museum of Château-d'Oex:Kategorie: Arts & CultureLocal News
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What on earth is going on?
The cuckoo has recently returned to our fields. For anyone who’s superstitious, this means always carrying a few coins in your trouser pockets.Kategorie: Gstaad LivingLocal News
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Ten years for ten seconds
It was a day with much sunshine and nearly as much of a sense of poignancy, the MOB (Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway) presented the gauge changer for the meter gauge to switch to the standard gauge....
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Efforts to keep La Bray alive
The Association Edelweiss Paradise tries to save the La Bray cablecar. They are facing a delay whithin which they have to buy the facilities from the Commune de Château-d'Oex, however, that is not...
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Tunnel for the new Cabane-Pillon piste
Glacier 3000 continues to expand its network of pistes. Thanks to a new 265-metre long tunnel, the Pierres Pointes Piste is to reopen. Kategorie: Local NewsSports & Leisure
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1st place for Gstaad-Lenk at the international mountain guide race
Success for the Gstaad-Lenk mountain guide section: At the international mountain guide race in Santa Caterina Valfurva, Italy, our mountain guides took first place in the team classification....
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Opening of the new post agency in the tourist office
The new post office in Saanen opened on Monday 6 May, replacing the former post office on Bahnhofstrasse. The former property has been sold by the post office to the Saanen Bank. The contract takes...
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Apartment building is uninhabitable after a fire
On Tuesday 7 May, a fire broke out in a house of multiple occupation in Saanen. The building is no longer habitable. The cantonal police of Berne have begun investigations into the cause of the fire....
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Talking when many people won’t speak out
"Domestic violence" - 60 people, including a surprising number of men, faced this difficult issue. It was hard to take on board the message presented by social worker Annelis Eichenberger, along with...
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A heating network using state of the art technology
Since the autumn of last year, a new central heating plant in Schönried has been operating and supplies heat to 500 residential units. The proud double chalet is also the location of the...
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