AFTER declaring a state of calamity for Dagupan City last July 23 in a special session held at the People’s Astrodome as the city hall had become inaccessible because of flooding, the Sanggunian Panlungsod (SP) cancelled all its regular sessions and committee hearings in the last week of July. SP’s…
(Filed by 104.7 IFM Dagupan News) Over P1B damage to palay recorded in Region 1 THE Department of Agriculture (DA) reported that more than P1.12 billion worth of palay were lost across Region 1 as a result of Typhoons Crising, Dante and Emong, which enhanced the prevailing southwest monsoon rains….
LONG-TERM SOLUTION TO FLOOD SEEN WITH widespread flooding recently inundating large parts of Pangasinan, provincial leaders are ramping up efforts to implement long-term, province-wide solutions targeting the root causes of the problem: silted and degraded river systems. Governor Ramon Guico III and Vice Governor Mark Ronald Lambino are both…
BACK TO NATURE — WITH household water supply affected by the recent rains and flooding, one barangay in the town of Burgos – one of the hardest hit by Typhoon Emong – turns to a waterfalls along the highway for bathing and washing clothes, with some even bringing their generator…
TO IMPROVE FLOODWATER OUTFLOW A sandbar between the island Barangay of Pugaro and Sabangan in Bonuan Gueset in the mouth of the Calmay River is among the reasons why the most recent widespread flooding in Dagupan – caused by heavy monsoon rains enhanced by Typhoon Crising (international name: Wiph) – receded slowly,…
THE editorial and administrative team of The Sunday PUNCH traveled from Dagupan City to Forbes Park, Makati,78 on July 30 to pay a moving final tribute to their beloved publisher and editor-in-chief, Mr. Ermin Garcia Jr., during the wake held at the Santuario de San Antonio Multi-Purpose Chapels. A pillar…
WESTERN PANGASINAN TOWNS HIT HARD BY ‘EMONG’ THERE are now 22 cities and municipalities in Pangasinan declared under a state of calamity, according to an official list obtained by The PUNCH, which was validated by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) as of July 29, 2025. Among…
MOST BUSINESSES RESUME OPERATIONS ALL major roads in Dagupan are now passable to light vehicles, except a section of Mayombo Road going to M.H. Del Pilar Street and A.B. Fernandez Avenue, and most establishments at the city’s Central Business District are back to normal operations. The City Government Information Office…
New voters register at the COMELEC satellite site inside the Robinsons Pangasinan in Calasiao. (PUNCHphoto by Butch Uka) THE Commission on Elections (COMELEC) kicked off the 10-day voter registration on August 1 in line with the potential holding of the 2025 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) in December. In an…
FULL restoration of electricity in several towns in western Pangasinan that were battered by the most recent typhoon may take up to a month, according to the Pangasinan I Electric Cooperative (PANELCO 1. In an interview with Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan, PANELCO 1 Chairman Engr. Allan Cerdan said they hope that…
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