IRAA CHAMPION—Dagupan Mayor Alipio Fernandez (third from left) and Department of Education Regional Director Ligaya Miguel (third from right) present the Ilocos Region Athletic Association (IRAA) Meet championship trophy to officials of Ilocos Norte. They are joined by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez (second from left). (Photo by Willy Lomibao) Back…
NEW TACK: “LOVE LETTERS” SAN CARLOS CITY– Will a different kind of “love letter” do the trick? Senior Superintendent Percival Barba, the police provincial director, is taking an unusual and different tack to stop cattle rustling in the city. Barba wants to send word, literally, a personal letter directly to…
FORMER Dagupan City Chief of Police Dionicio Borromeo was indicted along with several civilians, some of whom are Chinese citizens, for the operation of a big shabu laboratory in La Union that was busted by lawmen on July 9 last year. This was after a resolution of a three-man panel…
ILLEGAL settlers in Sitio Russia, the planned site for a Seafood Processing Plant, are ready to accept the Dagupan City government’s relocation offer, according to barangay chairman Ronald Torio. Torio said the residents, who earlier resisted the offer, have come to him to express their desire to take the housing…
“Botika Ng Bayan” SENATOR Manuel Roxas III urged the Dagupan government to set up more Botika ng Bayan outlets to make cheaper but effective medicines available to the city’s poor and growing elderly population. Speaking before Dagupan’s senior citizens led by their president Felipe Siapno, Roxas said the Cheaper and…
AN 86-year old American World War II veteran has an old man’s wish: to find a photograph of the old railroad yard in Dagupan where, 64 years ago, he killed a Japanese soldier to save fellow American soldiers. John Bennet, a former Private First Class in the 130th Infantry, 33rd…
AT LEAST 20 towns and 10 cities have already confirmed their participation in the “Festivals of the North” street dancing competition, one of the major events of the Dagupan Bangus Festival scheduled on April 15 to May 1. With this development, Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chairman of the executive committee…
FOR AUSSIE SOLDIERS—Gov. Amado Espino Jr. and Les Kennedy, president of the Australian Naval Commemoration Committee of Victoria, shake hands at the Veterans Park in Lingayen on February 20 after the unveiling of a marker in honor of Australian servicemen who lost their lives at the Lingayen Gulf during the…
BLESSING FROM CRUZ—Senator Manuel Roxas III, a touted presidential candidate in the 2010 election, gets a hug from Archbishop Oscar Cruz of the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese shortly after paying a courtesy call on the prelate on Friday. Earlier, Roxas also called on Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. before he met with Dagupan’s…
PUBLIC LAND OR PARK? What would normally appear as legal claims and counterclaims in a regular court trial are now posited and running in media, with a twist. The “plaintiff” is a former judge and the “respondent” is a sitting judge. Last week, City legal officer George Mejia identified Regional…
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