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March 17, 2024

SP opposition boycotts session to stop debate

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FREE ASSISTIVE DEVICES FOR PWD

FREE ASSISTIVE DEVICES FOR PWD -- More than 200 wheelchairs, 50 hearing aids and other assistive devices are turned-over by the Operation Blessing Foundation Philippines, Inc. to the provincial government through the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office for distribution to beneficiaries in Pangasinan in a ceremony held at the…
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Prosecutor denies Lim-Acosta’s motion for reconsideration
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Erfe-Mejia indicted for prohibiting, interrupting meeting
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Drug dealer with 130 grams of shabu nabbed in Malasiqui
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HELLO CSWD! WHERE ARE YOU?
Inside News

TALABA FESTIVAL IS BACK

TALABA FESTIVAL IS BACK – Residents and visitors have their fill of huge ‘Alaminos talaba ‘ (oyster ) brand  harvested in barangays Pangapisan, Mona, Cayucay, and Balayedaan in Alaminos City. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
Inside News
DOH 1 on the alert for rise in diarrhea cases
Inside News
Pangasinan’s 14 hospitals get P55.44M grant from DOH
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NEWS BRIEFS
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I WILL BE RABIES-FREE SOON!
Business

HIGHWAY FOR PALAY DRYING

HIGHWAY FOR PALAY DRYING – While there’s a law that bans rice farmers from using any empty space on any cemented highway for drying their palay, that law is flagrantly violated in every town and city in Pangasinan knowing they won’t be arrested. The photos shows the farmers filling up the…
Business
Prices of rice drop by P6 in public markets
Business
Alaminos City celebrates Hundred Islands and Talaba Festival
Business
ILL-TIMED FIREFIGHTERS MOTORCADE
Business
PVAO holds Veterans Caravan in Urdaneta City
Peace and Order

HIGH POLICE VISIBILITY IS ON

HIGH POLICE VISIBILITY IS ON – Most town and city police stations in Pangasinan have begun deploying more personnel in popular tourist destinations like the Binmaley Beach Baywalk to ensure peace and order in the area. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
Peace and Order
PNP Region 1 ready for Holy Week observance
Peace and Order
College student raped, killed by pervert
Peace and Order
Army, PNP execs: Pangasinan remains peaceful, insurgency-free
Peace and Order
Police belies another kidnapping in Bugallon

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Editorial

by Editor

March 17, 2024 in Editorial, Punch Gallery

Celebrating today’s women

THERE’S much to tell about our women today but on such a topic, nothing beats hearing it all from the women themselves beyond an occasion “to spotlight women’s accomplishments and address ongoing and emerging issues related to women’s empowerment and gender equality,” or “empowering your girls around the nation with…
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March 17, 2024 in Punchline

A call for respect, integrity

By Ermin Garcia Jr.   THE resolution issued by Associate Provincial Prosecutor Maychelle Ablog-Sergio, acting City Prosecutor for Dagupan City in response to the motion for reconsideration (MR) filed by Dagupan City Councilor Irene Lim-Acosta is, indeed, refreshing.  It came across as a distinct call to all and sundry for…
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Out of the fire

by: Gonzalo Duque

March 17, 2024 in Out of the fire

Fluent and intelligent resolution

By Gonzalo Duque   I happened to get hold of a copy of  a resolution of Maychelle Ablog-Sergio, acting city prosecutor for Dagupan, denying the motion for reconsideration made by Councilor Irene-Lim Acosta, one of the respondents in the case filed by Vice Mayor Bryan Kua against the three majority…
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Random Thoughts

by: Leonardo Micua

March 17, 2024 in Random Thoughts

No annual budget again from the majority

By Leonardo Micua   I HAVE a gut feeling that the seven majority councilors who boycotted the regular session of the Dagupan Sanggunian again last week are giving the message that they have no intention of passing the 2024 annual budget after three of their group were indicted by the…
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March 17, 2024 in G Spot

Short cut

By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo   I finally reached my destination at Sky Villas thirty minutes after the appointed time. I know I will be late, given the traffic situation, but the driver told me, “Di na ho tayo mag-Waze, waste of time. May alam po akong short cut!” I learned…
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Andromeda’s Vortex

by: Farah Decano

March 17, 2024 in Andromeda's Vortex

Efforts to waste

By Farah G. Decano   I am extremely happy that Dagupan’s version of the Smokey Mountain located in Bonuan is now being addressed by the present administration.  It is not to say that Mayor Belen Fernandez sat on the garbage problem during her first two terms in the years 2013…
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Newsy News

by: Eva C. Visperas

March 17, 2024 in Newsy News

Unfinished mission

By Eva c. Visperas   I first met him more than 10 years ago in Malasiqui town at the farmhouse of the congresswoman of the third district of Pangasinan. On March 10, I met him again at a restaurant in Bonuan Tondaligan, Dagupan City. A kabaleyan, a Dagupeño is back.…
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March 17, 2024 in Sports Eye

Revival of Mapandan bikefest set on March 18

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.   AFTER five years, the revival of annual Mapandan bikefest regularly conducted in the past in conjunction with the celebration of its Pandan Festival, will finally be realized on March 18 under the leadership of the town’s new chief executive Karl Christian F. Vega. According…
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Entre’acte

by: Rex Catubig

March 17, 2024 in Entre'acte, Punch Gallery

Sabel of the night (Part 2)

By Rex Catubig   SABEL, for her part, chooses to set up her “pakanan” -- a street version of fast-food, further down the main street, in front of a store that is already closed for the night, and just slightly across the CSI Square. In a departure from the carinderia-caldero-caserola…
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Life with my lens

by: Art Valenzuela

January 14, 2023 in Art Valenzuela's Photo Collection, Punch Gallery

A PHOTO ALBUM OF “PROMDI” LANDSCAPES

Photos and short narrative by Art G. Valenzuela I would consider myself as one lucky guy as I am both a city boy and a “promdi” who has access to both city life (as in Dagupan City and Metro Manila) and rural-provincial life. Every week – coming from either Dagupan…
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Punch Forum

Open letter to Mayor Belen

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Greetings Mayor Belen Fernandez – My name is Victor Reyno Junio, a resident and a registered voter of Sitio West America, Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City. I have now returned to Canada after my 5 months stay in our City. I am blessed and privileged to have 2 countries I call…

UPDATE FROM THE SUNDAY PUNCH ONLINE TEAM

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To further improve on the online security of our readers, recent changes have been made to the “x-frame-Options”; for the website https://punch.dagupan.com/ , that runs on the popular WordPress  platform. (The “x-frame-options” HTTP header is used to control whether or not a browser should be allowed to render a page…

WEAKENED WAWA BRIDGE

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WEAKENED WAWA BRIDGE - A part of the Wawa Bridge, renamed Romulo Bridge, collapsed when two loaded dump trucks, one loaded with aggregates and the other fertilizer- crossed at the same time 3:17 p.m. last Thursday, halting vehicular traffic between Bayambang, Pangasinan and Camiling, Tarlac.  (Punchphoto by Butch UKa)

Concerned about COVID-19 cases

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Magandang araw po! Ako po si Christian Mark V. Rico, isang mag-aaral sa pampublikong paaralan sa Dagupan. Sumulat po ako upang ipaalam ang aking saloobin tungkol sa mga kaso ng COVID-19 dito sa ating bayan. Nakita ko po na mas dumadami ang gumagaling sa COVID kesa sa pagdami ng kaso.…

Re: Solution for Dagupan City flooding, garbage in three years

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Dear Mr. Garcia;   I visited your office Sunday Punch and got interested in your column (Punchline) about garbage of Dagupan City. There is a solution to solve this perennial problem of the city I had proposed this to the newly elected young Lim. Now, clearly my proposal will not…
Governance

FAMILY PROGRAM LECTURES CONDUCTED IN BARANGAYS

UNLISERBISYO MAYOR Belen T. Fernandez reported the team of lectures from the City Population Office (CPO), City Nutrition Office (CNO) at City Social Welfare and Development Office were at the Barangay Bolosan Child Development Center (CDC) last March 7 for 70 residents on nutrition education, Kalalakihang Tapat sa Responsibilidad at…
Governance
DAGUPAN STARTS ‘NO SEGREGATION, NO COLLECTION’ OF TRASH
Governance
DA DISTRIBUTES DISCOUNT VOUCHER, 186 FARMERS CLAIM FERTILIZERS
Governance
MBTF HAILED AS GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL PRESIDENT
Governance
SUPER HEALTH CENTER SA BRGY. MALUED, SOON TO RISE!
People & Events

MISS HUNDRED ISLANDS BEAUTIES

MISS HUNDRED ISLANDS BEAUTIES --  The winners in the final selection for the titles wave to their supporters after receiving their crowns and sashes. Denise Joy Flores (center), 4th year BS Psychology student at the Lyceum Northwestern University is Miss Hundred Islands. She is joined by (from left) 1st Runner-Up Jessalyn S. Espinoza, Kyrie…
People & Events
21 beauties vie for 3 ‘Limgas na Pangasinan’ crowns
People & Events
San Carlos City gears up for Mango-Bamboo Festival
People & Events
Capitol to hold first Film Festival in Pangasinan
People & Events
Jehovah’s Witnesses invite local residents to 2 special events
Overseas

Five Fil-Am organizations chosen for humanitarian works

FIVE non-profit Filipino-American organizations that fulfilled their role in serving mankind made the list of top organizations recently selected by the Pangasinan Brotherhood-Association-USA based in Los Angeles, California, and other associations. They are United Specialist Healthcare Foundation (USHF), APO Global Foundation, PBA-USA, Kalayaan, Inc. and Philippine Disaster Relief Organization (PeDRO)…
Overseas
Women head USA’s Pangasinan Brotherhood Association
Overseas
Fil-Ams celebrate Pangasinan labor leader’s day in LA
Overseas
Pangasinan Brotherhood USA observes 45th anniversary
Overseas
United Pangasinanes of America, Inc. 52nd Inaugural Banquet and Ball
Sports

BUILDING CHARACTER AND SKILLS

BUILDING CHARACTER AND SKILLS --  Former PBA superstar Danny "Lakay” lldefonso takes time to give pointers to young boys belonging to a team competing in his Batang Pilipino Basketball League being held at this training camp in Urdaneta City. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
Sports
No 2024 budget, no salaries for training coaches – Sim
Sports
33rd PRISAA Regional Games kicks-off in Lingayen
Sports
Dagupeño paddlers shine in regional qualifiers
Sports
Asingan cyclist represents PH in Vietnam cycling tourney
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