GOING GREENER URDANETA CITY—After opening the first engineered sanitary landfill in the province, this city is bent on further improving waste management by implementing a “Bring Your Own Bag” (BYOB) program to minimize, if not eliminate, the use of plastic bags. The city council has passed an ordinance on the…

MAYOR Benjamin Lim, in a meeting with barangay chairmen on January 31, vowed to address the incessant flooding in Dagupan with the improvement of the city’s drainage system. “We will continue the drainage construction that has started in Tapuac all the way to Lucao,” Lim said. “We cannot control the…

CALASIAO it is a-changin’. Various construction works are taking shape, including the Robinson’s Place Calasiao, rehabilitation of the Villamil Bridge, and redesigning of the town plaza. Municipal Administrator Vivencio Vallo said the local government under Mayor Mark Roy Macanlalay is excited about these developments and called on the townsfolk to…

SETTING up a special division for cancer patients at the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) is in the drawing board. Dr. Roland Joseph Mejia, R1MC chief, said the project proposal is now being finalized. The cancer unit, to be called President Corazon Aquino Cancer Center, has also been conveyed to…

LINGAYEN–Nine World War II vintage bombs dug by a farmer in his cassava farm in Barangay Telbang, Alaminos City last January 31 were defused by a team from the Explosive and Ordnance Division  (EOD) of the Police Provincial Office (PPO). The farmer, immediately after finding the bombs, called the Alaminos police, which in…

SAN FERNANDO CITY–A red tide alert is now up along the coastal area of Barangay Wawa in Bani. But the infestation is confined in this area; other coastal towns such as neighboring Anda and Bolinao are free from the red tide toxin, according to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic…

MAYOR Benjamin Lim has called on the city prosecutors’ office and the Philippine National Police to collaborate closely in order to effectively stop drug trafficking in the city even. “There is a need to sit down because some policemen do not know the rightful conduct of apprehension or the proper…