LOCAL filmmakers in Dagupan City are set to pit their latest documentary obra in perhaps the region’s largest Film festival this March, to be held on March 16-24 in Baguio City. Youthcaster Production’s ‘Sketsa na Dagupan’ (A Sketch of Dagupan), has been named among eight finalists in the Montañosa Film…
A war veteran who was born in Pangasinan, died on March at the ripe old age of 100. Porfirio Laguitan was born in Pozorrubio town in 1924 and just turned 100 in February 10 as a resident of Taguig City. During the World War II, from 1939 to 1945, Laguitan…
UNLISERBISYO BARANGAY residents are consciously working under the spirit of bayanihan anew as they begin implementing the waste segregation scheme for ‘Goodbye Basura’, the city government’s newest waste management in partnership with Holcim Philippines, a global supplier of cement and aggregates, that seeks to clear Dagupan’s more than 60-year-old dumpsite…
SEVENTEEN-year-old cyclist Raven Joy Valdez of Asingan is representing the country in the 14th Binh Duong International Women’s U23 Cycling Tournament- Biwase Cup at Binh Duong, Vietnam on March 6-15, 2024. Valdez, who made it to the Philippine Cycling Team in February 2023 will compete against nine international teams including powerhouse cyclists from China, Japan, Kazakhstan,…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! MARCH 11 – (Dagupan City) Mikee de Vera, Nenita Sta. Cruz; (San Jacinto) Luzviminda Sarmiento, Dominique Sarmiento MARCH 13 – (Calasiao) Arielle May de Guzman; (Mangaldan) Arnold Quinto, Mica De Vera MARCH 15 – (Dagupan City) Rowell Sagun, Micah Fernandez, Louella Fernandez, Resty Finuliar MARCH 16 – (Dagupan…
THE indictment of the three councilors, Redford Erfe-Mejia, Alfie Fernandez and Irene Lim-Acosta by the City Prosecution Service of Dagupan in connection with the affidavit-complaint for illegal detention, slander and disrupting a meeting filed last year by Vice Mayor Dean Bryan Kua and five councilors of the minority bloc, did…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THANKS to the Facebook post of Simon Vistro, I learned of the event that the Phinma University of Pangasinan organized to pay tribute to Don Blas F. Rayos, Sr., the founder of Dagupan Colleges. I missed it and I would have loved to be there….
BEWARE OF IRRESPONSIBLE SMOKERS – The grass fire that hit the Villa Verde Trail along the San Nicolas- Santa Fe, Nueva Vizcaya road last February 13, 2024 is ominous of more grass and forest fires with the onset of traditional summer aggravated by the ongoing El Niño phenomenon. The area of the burned grass fire…
MOM AND DAUGHTER COUNCILORS WALKED OUT? THE committee hearing last February 27 that Mayor Belen Fernandez attended to defend her administration’s 2024 budget ended up cordially, nothing like how the committee hearing last year when she appeared to defend the 2023 budget. The only issue that almost sparked another exchange…
IN the spirit of unity, both the majority and the minority blocs in the Sangguniang Panlungsod agreed to revise Resolution No. 8129-2024 approving the 2024 Annual Investment Program (AIP) of Dagupan in the amount of P2.018 billion restating that the authorship and approval was unanimous, and not by the majority…
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