BAYAMBANG—This first-class municipality in the central part of Pangasinan has etched another milestone in its history. As it celebrated its 400th founding anniversary last April 4, Bayambang succeeded in grabbing the Guinness Book of World Records’ (GWR) longest barbecue grill.
‘TIS the season of beauty pageants. In the national front, Pangasinan is celebrating and sharing in the victory of one of its own, Parul Shah, who won last week as Binibining Pilipinas Tourism in the prestigious national pageant.
THE ongoing vehicular traffic experiment in Dagupan City, which ended last March 31, has been extended until May 31 following an ordinance passed last week by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP). Councilor Marvin Fabia, chair of the SP committee on transportation and public utilities, said the second extension is necessary to…
LINGAYEN–Secretary Antonio Villar Jr., chairman of the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB), led the list of nine distinguished sons and daughters of Pangasinan who were conferred the prestigious ASNA Awards during awards night on April 5 at the Sison Auditorium, capping the celebration of Pangasinan Day.
CITY AUDITOR’S REPORT THE 29-hectare land bought by the Dagupan government in 2002 supposedly for a sanitary landfill during the first term of former Mayor Benjamin Lim is one of 17 assets acquired but are not titled in the city’s name. This was uncovered by the Commission on Audit (COA) in…
SMART JOINS BANGUS FESTIVAL 2014—Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez (center) signs a memorandum of agreement with SMART Communications Regional Sales Manager for Northern Luzon Gilbert Tan (left) and Area Manager of SMART’s Northern Luzon Distributor Group Renan Santiago (right), sealing the commitment of SMART Communications as one of the major…
THE month-long Bangus Festival 2014 kicks off with a cultural bang on April 1 with the three-day Fun Fiesta sa Pilipinas featuring the 2nd National Performing Arts Festival to be joined by top-performing artists from different elementary and secondary schools nationwide. Bennylito Reyes, executive director of the Bulwagang Filipino Theater…
COPING WITH LIQUEFACTION MAYOR Belen Fernandez of Dagupan, a city with soil that is liquefaction prone, has ordered the City Engineers Office to be stricter in implementing standards before issuing building permits for ongoing and future constructions.
LAND TO CALL THEIR OWN—Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez visits Sitio Suit, Barangay Pugaro to deliver the good news to 50 informal settlers that the owner of the land on which they have built their homes and lived in for decades has agreed to give them, without cost, a 7,000-square meter…
IN A sudden twist of fate, 50 informal settlers in Sitio Suit, Barangay Pugaro in Dagupan City who have been ordered for eviction by a court can now stay where they have illegally built their homes after the landowner agreed to donate to them a 7,000-square meter portion of the…
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