THE Malasiqui local government set a schedule of visitation by residents to the public cemetery by barangay from October 29 to November 1, 2022. Mayor Noel Anthony Geslani issued Executive Order No. 37 for implementation during the observance of Undas. Geslani said it is necessary to implement clustering/scheduling of the 73…
By Al S. Mendoza SAN Miguel Beer has been the favorite clubhouse talk in Philippine basketball for quite some time now. That’s understandable. For one, the team that has been the lone remnant of the roster of gallant founders of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) in 1975, including the…
With Fajardo out, San Miguel Beer struggling
By Leonardo Micua NOW that the two lanes of the Dawel Bridge are open for light vehicle traffic after two months of retrofitting, it is comforting to see that personnel of Pangasinan Second Engineering District and POSO of Dagupan are still strictly enforcing the five-tons limit for weight of vehicles crossing…
Protecting Dawel Bridge is a priority
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo WHEN I was editing a poetry book sometime in 2015, I came across an entry written by a young man whose work was in no way, written by him. The poems were too mature for his young age, his experience did not bear what he…
Plagiarism
(First of two parts) By Farah G. Decano THIS is the famous line of Narda before she becomes Darna. She calls on her brother, Ding, to toss the mystical stone to her which, when swallowed, will turn her into the famous flying heroine who wore two-piece crimson garments. What…
“Ding, ang bato!”
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER six weekends of hostilities since last September 25 with two days of pause on October 8 and 9, the province’s only multi-stage basketball cagefest this year, “Excellent Noodles Cup DBL Pangasinan Inter-Town/City/School U18 Basketball Tournament 2022,” only four teams remain unbeaten in the boys…
UL, San Carlos, Alcala, Asingan still unbeaten
By Rex Catubig EVERY culture has its own unique way of grappling with the concept of death and redemption; of life here and life hereafter. Of life in full circle. It manifests itself in some odd rites and rituals: perhaps bizarre, absurd, irrational and fanciful. But beneath all that,…
Halloween redux
HER FIRST 100 DAYS REPORT — Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez gestures to stress her exasperations before the audience that listened to her over discovered missing funds and deleted files turned over to her administration by her predecessor, ex-Mayor Brian Lim, as she underscored the need for transparency and accountability…
HER FIRST 100 DAYS REPORT
DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez is contemplating to declare environmental emergency in Dagupan, noting the very serious and concerning condition of the city’s rivers caused by the 1,460 oversized fish pens. The agriculture office reported that 1,200 of these are operating beyond their carrying capacities, largely overstocked and where some…
Mayor Belen eyes environmental emergency due to fish pens
THE Department of Health issued an alert to Pangasinan residents after 90 cases of human hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) were been recorded in Pangasinan. Burgos already has 25 active HFMD cases after four confirmed cases were initially recorded that prompted the local Rural Health Unit (RHU) to launch…