Farming the arorosep By Roberto Garcia DID you know that the soft and succulent green seaweed arorosep, which is a popular salad complement for grilled fish and meat, can be cultured in fishponds and at the sea bottom?
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CITY HALL OFFICIALS IN HOT WATER THE use of calamity funds worth more than P13.1 million by Dagupan City officials in October 2010 without a declaration of a state of calamity from the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) was illegal, according to the Commission on Audit (COA).
Dagupan’s calamity fund release in 2010 illegal–COA
IT’S déjà vu for Dagupan City’s budget review. Just as in the case of the 2011 budget that suffered a delay in approval, the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) is again facing a slowdown in its review of the proposed budget for next year due to the order of Mayor Benjamin Lim…
Mayor’s gag order delays budget OK
SAN CARLOS CITY–Residents of Barangay Mestizo here have been witnesses to what now appears to be a running history of violence. The chairman of the barangay was gunned down by two men riding in tandem on a motorcycle in Sitio Pao, an area within the village, in broad daylight on…
Another kapitan in San Carlos shot dead
ELECTRONIC BELLS TO CALL THE FAITHFUL–Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas is joined by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez and other churchgoers as he blesses the newly-installed electronic bells at the entrance of St. John the Evangelist Metropolitan Cathedral, taking the place of the traditional church bells. (Photo by Mitz Cresencio) Back to Homepage
ELECTRONIC BELLS TO CALL THE FAITHFUL
BALUNGAO–The senseless slaying of three students in Barangay San Raymundo here last October 14 is marked as solved with the arrest and filing of criminal charges against four suspects, one of them a policeman, before the Regional Trial Court in Rosales.
Killers of 3 boys arrested, charged
JUST when health authorities thought the worst was over, the water-borne disease leptospirosis has again been on the rise following the back-to-back typhoons “Pedring” and “Quiel” in the last week of September and beginning October.
Leptospirosis on the upsurge anew
HOW sweet it is! THE University of Pangasinan-PHINMA Flames beat the Lyceum-Northwestern University Dukes, 89-74, in their third game on October 21 in a best-of-three series to win the championship crown this year in the Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. Cup of the PRISAA-UCAAP Collegiate Basketball Championship.
UPang bags PRISAA-UCAAP basketball crown
POLICE ALERT POLICE authorities in Dagupan City expressed alarm over the use of minors by a local drug syndicate to push illegal drugs following the arrest of a 12-year old boy on October 18 in Sitio Silungan, Barangay Bonuan Binloc.
Minors used for illegal drug-pushing
THE federation of local transport groups in Pangasinan complained to the Department of Energy (DOE) that many issued Pantawid Pasada cards are defective.
