FOUR Dagupan City athletes came home with one silver and three bronze medals when they represented Region 1 in the weeklong Palarong Pambansa in Marikina City from July 30 to August 5. The lone silver medal was won by Angela Joy Eliron, a student of the Dagupan City National High School, who…

RESILIENT people are those that have the ability to adjust, to recover readily from adversity, life changes, illnesses. Indeed, the touted resiliency of Filipinos has shown that we always recovered and adjusted to a life, coping with more than 20 typhoons every year, some deadly and destructive. We have found…
Resilience, a demand for accountability
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Surreal vs. real waterworld
WITH SINOCALAN RIVER DOWN TO 6.1MASL BARRING more big rains upstream of the Sinocalan watershed, flood in Dagupan’s 31 barangays is finally expected to ease this week. The city is the catchment basin of rainwater from the Cordilleras originating from its fountain head in Tuba, Benguet. In an interview over…
Severe flooding in city continues

FREE-FOR-ALL AT THE JUNCTION – Tricycles, pedicabs, jeepneys and motorcycles move Dagupan City. Fortunately, no mishaps reported. No pedestrians hurt. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
FREE-FOR-ALL AT THE JUNCTION
NATIONAL ROADS NOT PASSABLE DOWNTOWN Dagupan, the location of the Central Business District (CBD), was virtually isolated from the rest of the city and other towns in Pangasinan after five national roads accessing the city were not passable to light vehicles due the severe flooding spawned by days of monsoon…
Downtown Dagupan isolated for days
AFTER DAGUPAN, CALASIAO ASIDE from Dagupan City and Calasiao town, four other municipalities have declared a state of calamity due to the aftermath of Typhoon Egay on their respective areas. Sta. Barbara and Mangatarem local government units also declared their towns under a state of calamity on July 31 and…
4 more towns declare State of Calamity
ACTING Gov. Mark Ronald Lambino expressed the Pangasinan’s gratitude to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for the P15-million financial assistance as well as other equipment extended by the national government for the provincial government’s use Lambino, representing Governor Ramon Guico III who was on personal leave, told a media interview on…
Pangasinan gets P15-M help from President’s fund

CALASIAO WATERWORLD — Residents of Barangay Lasip in Calasiao town brave the rains and chest-deep flood in the village’s street due to swollen Marusay River caused by the incessant rains during the onslaught of Super Typhoon Egay and enhanced Southwest monsoon last week. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
CALASIAO WATERWORLD
AS flooding continues in Dagupan City and neighboring towns, the City Health Office (CHO) cautioned the public against infection that result in leptospirosis and athlete’s foot, commonly called alipunga. Dr. Ophelia Rivera, the Dagupan City Health Officer, said city government has free medicines to residents to counter leptospirosis and alipunga…