PANGASINAN won this year’s prestigious Likas Yaman award as the Best Local Government Unit (LGU)-Initiated Environmental project in Region 1. The award was presented last June 30 in ceremonies held in San Fernando City in La Union.

LINGAYEN–NO hard feelings. This was the common message sent out by both Governor Amado Espino Jr. and his appointee, Paterno Orduña, who resigned from his position as Executive Assistant IV and as head of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC) effective July 1.

SOME 500 hectares of watershed areas near the San Roque dam in San Manuel town is set to be planted beginning July 7 as part of the National Greening Program (NGP) and to provide habitat for the Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi).

DENR ISSUES WARNING LEAVE the tukos alone. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) provincial office has warned that it is unlawful to collect and sell the Philippine Bow-Fingered Gecko, also known as ‘Tokay Gecko’ or tuko in Filipino.

BANI—Some 7,453 residents here signed a petition for the recall of five elected municipal officials, representing more than the minimum 20 percent signatories required by law to warrant its filing before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) The number was announced during a People’s Forum held at the town’s covered court…

LAOAC–The chief of police here has been relieved of his post over a shooting incident where a father and son were killed in the afternoon of June 19 in Barangay Lebueg in a shoot-out with policemen in his presence. Senior Inspector Lodovico Eleazar was ordered relieved by the provincial police…

ALAMINOS CITY–Mayor Hernani Braganza hailed the dismissal of the election protest filed against him by former First District Rep. Arthur Celeste whom he beat for the mayoralty race here in the May 2010 election. Braganza, now on his last and final term of office, said although he has yet to…