IT’S true, Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed on Blue Beach in Dagupan City. This was asserted by a 90-year old Dagupeño who claims having seen MacArthur riding a military jeep in Bonuan 72 years ago here with his convoy. Alejandro Balolong of Paras St., Barangay Bonuan Gueset in Dagupan, is reportedly…
TO HONOR ALL ALLIED SOLDIERS TO put an end to the contentious debate where Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur landed in Pangasinan when allied forces started of the liberation of Luzon on January 9, 1945, markers on the beachhead that extended from Lingayen, Binmaley, Dagupan to San Fabian will be installed….
CITY Mayor Belen T. Fernandez will depart for the United States on January 20 to join the official mission organized by the Department of Interior and Local Government to attend a forum on federalism and local governance on January 22 in Washington D.C. Fernandez is only one of two city…
BAD HABITS REFUSE TO DIE — Barangay folks of Barangay Malued in Dagupan City watch the explosions of firecrackers on the street lit by daring youths during the New Year’s eve revelry. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
URDANETA POLICE GUN SCANDAL URDANETA CITY—Only eighteen of the 41 missing hand guns in the armory of the Urdaneta City Police have so far been recovered with 23 others still unaccounted for, the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) reported. The last to surrender one of the missing Pietro Beretta…
AMENDED TRAFFIC ORDINANCE A SHOWDOWN looms this early part of the year between the executive and legislative branches of the Dagupan City government when Mayor Belen Fernandez partially vetoed the ordinance passed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) late last year that amended a traffic ordinance enacted way back in 2002….
83 INJURED, 4 INDISCRIMINATE FIRING DESPITE the reported 83 firecracker-related cases that injured victims and 4 cases of indiscriminate firing, the revelry welcoming the new year was generally very peaceful. This was the assessment of Pangasinan Police Provincial Director P/Sr. Supt. Ronald Oliver Lee. However, he said the Pangasinan Police…
NO EXPLOSIONS ON HIGH NOON HIGH noon struck and went January 1, 2017, no firecracker explosions were heard in Barangay Pogo Grande in Dagupan City. Complying with the national government’s anti-firecracker campaign for the new year, residents of Barangay Pogo Grande, the village in the city known for simultaneously lighting…
85,000 FIRECRACKERS LIT BINMALEY—Residents here who were initially alerted about the spectacle of 85,000 pieces of firecrackers being exploded inside the public auditorium watched in awe when these were finally lit and exploded on high noon of January 1. They were initially alerted by the wailing siren of a firetruck…
CALASIAO –This town has a new vice mayor. Municipal Councilor Mahadeva Das Mesina, 36, took his oath of office on Jan. 3 to replace Vice Mayor Ferdinand Galang who resigned from his post to live abroad. Galang submitted his resignation letter to the local office of the Department of Interior…
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