CAPITOL NEWS LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – The provincial government led by Governor Amado I. Espino, III continues to raise the bar of excellence in local governance made evident with three national awards, and one regional award conferred by various agencies to the province in November. Governor Espino presented the three…
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS SAVEMORE, a chain of neighborhood grocery stores under the SM Food Retail Group, presented on December 5 its proposal for the latest branch in the city in a meeting by its executives with members of the Local Investment and Development Board chaired by Mayor Belen T. Fernandez. SaveMore is one…
SM SaveMore soon in Dagupan
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS A TEACHER by profession, Ma. Erikah Badicao of Pogo Grande decided to earn a living not by teaching but by carving three dimensional figures, among which are instructional materials. Badicao, who paid Mayor Belen T. Fernandez a visit on December 4, personally thanked the mayor for sending…
Sculpting for a living
SUNDAY EVENING MURDER — The lifeless body of Ramil De Venecia, a government employee lies at A.B. Fernandez St. in downtown Dagupan City after two unidentified male suspects shot him in the head at pointblank and casually walked away from the crime scene Sunday evening. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
SUNDAY EVENING MURDER
LINGAYEN–Two men claiming to be media men were arrested by the police on Dec. 3 in an entrapment operation after they demanded protection money from two owners of a mini-carnival in Barangay Dulag, Lingayen. Arrested in the act of receiving P2,000 marked money were Gil Ferrer, 61, who introduced himself as a columnist of tabloid…
Two fake newsmen arrested for extortion
P’SNAN INTER-TOWN/CITY BASKETBALL TOURNEY LINGAYEN–Team Lingayen of the Western Conference bracket leads the tournament carding 5-0 (win-loss) in the elimination rounds of the 2ndGovernor’s Cup Inter-Town/City Basketball Tournament. It clobbered Labrador, 109-82, and Dasol, 110-92, on December 2 and 3, respectively The raging Lingayen five, considered now as a title-contender…
Lingayen leads elims, 5-0
LINGAYEN– The 9th ‘Governor Amado Espino Cup’ Pangasinan Open Chess Tournament, the last and the toughest chess tournament of the 2017 Pangasinan Chess Festival (PCF), kicked off last Saturday, December 9 at the Pangasinan Training and Development Center (PTDC). Hundreds of rated and non-rated chess players from Pangasinan and other provinces and cities in the…
9th P’sinan Open Chess Tourney, Dec. 9-10
LINGAYEN – Some 200 multi-discipline sports enthusiasts are expected to participate in the 1st Pangasinan Duathlon Challenge today in this town. The duathlon challenge organized by Metro Dagupan Cycling Club Inc. (MDCCI) in collaboration with the provincial government, is a 5 km run-45 km. cycling-5 km run loop that will…
Capitol hosts 1st Pangasinan Duathlon Challenge
THE UL Tigers clobbered the Asian Institute of Maritime Studies Blue Sharks 89-64 in the main game of the opening of the 25th season of the National Capital Region Athletic Association on December 5, 2017 at the Cuneta Astrodome in Pasay City. The UL Tigers outrebounded the AIMS Blue Sharks…
UL Tigers drub AIMS Blue Sharks, 89-64
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