By Ermin Garcia Jr. WITH reports of more frequent earthquakes hitting many parts of the country, the Phivolcs already warned that Pangasinan towns, particularly Dagupan City and other coastline communities, will likely be hit by the ‘Big One’ . Our news report on it this week identified the three…
TALONG NACHOS ANYONE? — The team from Barangay Lipay in Villasis proudly presents its entry – Eggplant Parmesan Chips Nacho Style – to the cookfest of Talong Festival 2023 held at Villasis auditorium. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
DESPITE the entry of imported rice in local markets in Pangasinan, the price of milled commercial rice last week remained high. In Dagupan City, regular-milled rice was still pegged at P58 per kilogram, while first-class rice was still being sold at P60 per kilogram, the same level during the holiday…
PRICES of vegetables, onions from highland dropped last week. According to the Department of Agriculture (DA), the prices of the following items decreased: Carrot was priced P60/ kilogram, from P100 last month White potato was P100/kilogram, from P115 Baguio pechay was P40/kilogram, from P50 Cabbage P35/kilogram, from P80 Red onion…
THE Alliance of United Transport Organization Provincewide (AUTOPRO)–Pangasinan did not join the nationwide call of Manila-based transport groups MANIBELA and PISTON to protest the revocation of franchises of drivers and operators unable to consolidate. Both MANIBELA and PISTON earlier launched a nationwide protest in order to persuade President Ferdinand Marcos…
DEVELOPING FUTURE JOURNALISTS BY LAW – Participants in the three-day Division School Press Conference (DSPC) 2024 of DepEd Schools Division Office (SDO) in Dagupan gather in front of the main building of Dagupan City National High School on January 17 for the competition in different journalism categories (elementary and secondary). Republic Act No. 7079 mandates…
THE new police regional director of the Philippine National Police Region 1 presented to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) his priorities to maintain peace and order in the Ilocos Region after the legislative body acknowledged his new leadership being a Pangasinense. Police B/Gen. Lou Evangelista, from Binmaley town, said in his…
WITH the scheduled opening of the Pangasinan Polytechnic College (PPC) in the next school year, several various training sites for its courses have been identified. To help institutionalize PPC’s curriculum, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan adopted the resolution authored by Vice Governor Mark Lambino, titled: “Allowing the Pangasinan Polytechnic College-Center for Lifelong…
(Filed by 107.4 IFM Dagupan News) Commuters oppose fare increase by modern jeepneys COMMUTERS in Pangasinan are up in arms against the reported plan of transport cooperatives operating modernized public utility vehicles to seek higher fares from the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB). The cooperatives argued that the…
FROM EAST ZAMBALES FAULT A senior official of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PhiVolcs) warned officials of the provincial government, and of towns and cities of a “Big One” that can hit any part of Pangasinan and must prepare for it. Dr. Leonila Bautista, a senior scientist of…
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