DAGUPAN-ALAMINOS-SAN FERNANDO THE cities of Dagupan, Alaminos and San Fernando are collaborating to set up a novel ferry system that will provide point-to-point service between and among them. Dagupan City Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. announced that the ferry service was initiated by Mayor Hernani Braganza in order to hasten tourism…
URDANETA CITY–Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. will leave for Spain on December 1 to sign a sisterhood agreement between Urdaneta City and Ordizia City in Spain on December 5 coinciding with the 500th birthday anniversary of Ordizia’s foremost son, Fr. Andres Urdaneta, after whom the former Spanish pueblo of Urdaneta was…
BEATING THE DEADLINE—Men and machines feverishly work on the P996-million bridge across the Pantal River in Dagupan City in an effort to beat the deadline set by the Department of Public Works and Highways for its completion, which is March of next year. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
ADVOCACY ALLIANCE — Rep. Mariano Piamonte Jr. of the party list TEACHER (second from right) helps hoist the document detailing the Advocacy Alliance of Higher Education Institution Associations along with Dr. Gonzalo Duque and Dr. Mac Arthur Samson which the two signed last November 15 during a Biennial Convention of…
DESPITE FERNANDEZ’ INITIATIVE Despite the new initiative by the Dagupan City government to recover the 30-hectare land it bought in barangay Awai, San Jacinto at an overprice of P16 million, the property might as well be considered lost forever. The status of the land, which has already been placed under…
MALASIQUI–The 3rd District’s newly-elected barangay officials, who will assume their posts December 1, took their oath of office Thursday before President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo at the residence of Representative Rachel Arenas Arroyo gave the estimated 2,000 barangay officials a short message and was loudly applauded when she greeted them in the…
ROSALES –Pangasinan 6th District Representative Conrado Estrella III had coffee with the late Basilan Representative Wahab Akbar just a couple of hours before his unexpected and violent death. Estrella, in a telephone interview with The PUNCH, said he did not notice or feel any premonition during their conversation that Akbar…
THE city government has asked the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to extend the deadline for the closure of the open dumpsite in Bonuan as it admitted the city does not have the luxury of space where it can build its sanitary landfill. City Waste Management Officer Reginaldo…
SAN CARLOS CITY–The city again honored its most eminent son on November 13. San Carlos City was the birth place and final resting place of Speaker Eugenio Padlan Perez, or “Manong Eniong” as he was fondly called. And in his honor, Pangasinan Day is fittingly celebrated annually on his birth…
AFTER consistently topping the performance in the recent Certified Public Accountant and Nursing Licensure Exams, the Colegio de Dagupan (CdD) again outshone all other schools offering an Electronics and Communication Engineer (ECE) course in Pangasinan when 10 of its ECE graduates passed the November 2007 ECE Licensure Exams.
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