Åkrene

Åkrene is a village in the municipality of Fet, Norway, located between Lillestrøm and Fetsund. Its population (2005) is 259. It has a small train station, and once it had it's own little school. The lokal labour club managed to put up a community house about one hundred years ago. In this house they used to have different kinds of meetings and they used to arrange an annual show. After the show, there used to be a dance. At these dances sometimes alcohol "flowed freely". Legendary fights happened, as people from the nearby village Lillestrøm would come to Åkrene, looking for the pretty girls of Åkrene, to have fun and fights. The site is now converted to an entry level youth apartment building. The place also used to have it's own grocery shop. People mainly had their jobs as agricultural workers or in the lokal sawmill - Tuen bruk. Some went by train or bus to Oslo or Lillestrøm to find their work - as they do today. Now the community house, the school and the shop are closed. Many new houses are built, but, except for a handfull of farmers and factory workers, most of the residents travel to nearby towns to work. Åkrene still has its own football-field and Åkrene play i the third league this year (2010). In Åkrene NATO has a small radio-communication centre called Tuen-tangen.