HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! JANUARY 07 – (Dagupan City) Angeline Bernal-Samson; (Villasis) Conrado B. Estrella JANUARY 08 – (Dagupan City) Arturo C. De Vera, Dr. Al S. Quinto, Jean Corpuz Aguirre; (Calasiao) Nonie Dee Happy Birthday! JUN SISON (January 7 – Dagupan City) Happy Birthday! ESTHER NAVARRO CESAR DUQUE (January 9 –…

SHOULD the cities of Dagupan, San Carlos, Urdaneta and Alaminos continue to risk the loss of lives, fingers, eyesight and limbs of their constituents for the sake of providing livelihood to vendors and maintain the traditional revelry with blasting noise to welcome the New Year? It may sound politically correct…
Wanted: Total ban of firecrackers in four cities
By Ermin Garcia Jr. MAKING New Year resolutions used to be a serious activity for the young and the old. I remember our Grade Six teacher telling us how important it was to make New Year resolutions if we were to become better children and make our parents happy….
New Year resolutions, going, going, gone
STRIKE ONE FOR 2024 THE majority bloc in the Sangguniang Panlungsod flatly rejected the submitted supplemental budget granting P20,000 Special Recognition Incentive to regular employees and P5,000 one-time gratuity pay to job order and contractual employees of the city government. The reason? Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia of the majority bloc, claimed…
SP majority rejects workers’ service incentive, gratuity pay

NOT to be outdone in the Batang Pinoy and Philippine National Games 2023 held in Pasig City last December 17-22, the jins of Team Pangasinan Karate harvested two gold, two silver and bronze medals. Among the Pangasinan karate jins who brought national accolades to the province were Mark Vincent Patungan who earned the gold in the 12-13 male kumite and Nasrifa Pili who captured the gold…
Team Pangasinan Karate takes home medals from Batang Pinoy 2023
THE Dagupan athletes impressed the city residents when they returned home from the six-day Batang Pinoy and Philippine National Games (PNG) with 12 medals and produced 10 finalists in their respective events. Dagupan fielded its own delegation separate from the Pangasinan delegation to the Batang Pinoy and PNG held in…
Dagupan brings home 12 medals from 2023 Batang Pinoy, PNG

DCHS GOLDEN JUBILARIANS – The members of Class of ’73 of Dagupan City High School (DCHS) led by their class president Eleazar Quinto, update their class picture during their Golden Jubilee celebration at the Dagupan City plaza for the annual Dagupan City National High School Grand Alumni Homecoming. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
DCHS GOLDEN JUBILARIANS

Gov. Ramon Guico III along with other government officials and salt farm workers, leads the ceremonial harvesting of salt at the Pangasinan Salt Center in Barangay Zaragoza in Bolinao. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) THE Pangasinan Provincial Government made major strides in 2023 by implementing massive projects in development-related areas. Early on, Gov. Ramon Guico III and…
Guico: 2023 is Pangasinan’s year of great advancements
2023 BANNER PROGRAMS MAYOR Belen Fernandez considers home visits to sick residents by health professionals like doctors, nurses and midwives as a banner program of the Dagupan City government for year 2023. Speaking to newsmen before the year-end, Fernandez said it was her presentation of the city government’s home visit…
MBTF: Health and welfare of indigents, seniors
SOME 230 traditional jeepneys in Pangasinan are still not consolidated and, therefore, cannot be expected to ply their usual routes consistent with the terms of the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP) of the Department of Transportation after the December 31, 2023 deadline. Bernard Tuliao, president of the Alliance of…