WE LOVE YOU, TEACHER! – Pupils at West Central Elementary School in Dagupan City show their greeting cards and flowers for their teachers in celebration of Teacher’s Day. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
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TARGET: END OF 2018 THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) is hopeful that all towns and cities in Pangasinan will again be declared drug free by the end of year 2018. “We hope we can meet that time frame,” P/Chief Inspector Norman Florentino, chief of the PPPO’s police-community relations office…
Police again eye drug-free Pangasinan
LINGAYEN—Leptospirosis has claimed 47 lives across Pangasinan and the cases are up by 231% from January to Sept. 24. In a report by the Provincial Health Office (PHO) prepared by Rodhalia Binay-an, Provincial Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit coordinator, it said there are already 372 cases compared to last year’s only 110 cases and…
Leptospirosis claims 47 lives, cases up 231%
BINMALEY— Local artist known as “Lady Fishbone” won the grand prize of the prestigious Maningning Miclat Art Awards 2018 on Sept. 26 at the Far Eastern University in Manila with her artwork made from bangus (milkfish) bones. Jessica Lopez’s “Motion of Life” mounted on 48 X 36 inches plywood with…
Lady Fishbone wins Maningning Miclat Art
FOR IMPROVED RESILIENCY A “BUILD-UP” strategy for Dagupan City may well be adopted by the city government to further reinforce the city’s resilience and flood mitigation measures. This proposed direction was reached after the city government met with engineers, architects and representatives of Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH),…
City to adopt “Build-Up” strategy
POLLUTION FROM FISH CAGES LINGAYEN—The provincial board officials are set to conduct a probe on the complaint filed by barangay officials of Sual town on the worsening pollution allegedly caused by the operation of fish cages in the town for the past eight years. The officials of Barangay Baybay Norte sought…
Sual barangay officials seek SP intervention
SUAL—A composite team of department units of the town and government agencies conducted a probe Thursday of the fish cages site in this town to verify the complaint of improper garbage disposal, especially of dead bangus, in the area. Mayor Roberto Arcinue said the team was composed of representatives from…
Mayor Arcinue orders probe of fish cages operations
AN incumbent municipal councilor of Sto. Tomas town narrowly escaped death when two unidentified suspects shot him and missed. P/ Sr. Superintendent Wilson Lopez, acting provincial director, said Councilor Ely A. Ramos, 64, had just arrived home 9 a.m. October 4 from church, on his motorcycle when unidentified suspects riding…
Sto. Tomas councilor survives assassination attempt
IT’S HARVEST TIME — Farmers take advantage of the sunny weather and thresh their newly-harvested palay beside a field in a village in Lingayen. The expected supply from the new harvest is expected to help normalize price of rice in the market. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
IT’S HARVEST TIME
DESPITE P2.7-M DAMAGE TO AGRI LINGAYEN— Despite the P2.7-billion total damage to agriculture in the province due to the successive monsoon rains and Typhoon Ompong that recently hit Pangasinan, the provincial agriculture office said the province still has ample supply of rice and vegetables and other high value crops. Nestor…
