AGUILAR—Residents of Barangay Bayaoas in this town filed a formal complaint, demanded the termination of the ongoing quarry operations in their village. The Concerned citizens of Barangay Bayaoas led by ex-Barangay Captain Arnulfo Repancol, ex-Brgy. Kagawad Alex Dela Cruz, and incumbent Brgy. Kgwd. Edwin Biag, with nine others, condemned the…

URBIZTONDO—Units of a joint housing project by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the municipal government of Urbiztondo will soon be constructed and distributed to some 200 resident-families of the town. Urbiztondo Mayor Martin Raul Sison said the housing units will mitigate the town’s problems with informal…

LINGAYEN—The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) here expressed through a resolution its support to the Senate and Congress proposals seeking for an increase in the salaries of public school teachers and personnel. House Bill No. 245 and its counterpart Senate Bill No. 2351, authored by Representative Antonio Tinio and Senator Loren Legarda,…

LINGAYEN-Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) took advantage of the current monsoon rains to kick off this year’s tree planting under the National Greening Program (NGP) this year. Leduina Co, PENRO officer, said he months of July and August are the most feasible times of the year for planting trees…

SISON–All’s well that ends well between the municipal government of Sison and the provincial government when the latter agreed to lift a cease and desist order (CDO) it issued over an unauthorized excavation of a provincial road in that town by the former. This agreement was reached after a dialogue conducted…

ANTICIPATING calamitous flooding in Dagupan City during rainy season and onset of typhoons, the city government has been gathering children to be taught how to swim and learn how to save themselves in case they fall in the river or deep floodwaters. To date and in line with the program…

“THE Church continues to maintain what it has always taught. Marriage is a permanent union of man and woman, in the complementarity of the sexes and the mutual fulfillment that the union of a man and a woman bring into the loftiness of the matrimonial bond”. This was reiterated by Archbishop…

UNFINISHED BRIDGES LINGAYEN—The provincial board expects the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) officials in Region 1 and Pangasinan to explain the delays in the completion of the bridge projects in the province. The board members agreed in last week’s session to invite the agency’s regional officials and be…

FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION ALAMINOS CITY—The city council has asked the provincial board to authorize the cutting of trees along the road that will be traversed by the construction of the Alaminos-Bani bypass road. Earning the provincial board’s approval is necessary after it adopted Resolution No. 269-2014 opposing the cutting of…

LINGAYEN—After receiving series of text messages and phone calls from motorists, Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr., in an open letter, belied reports that he ordered the closure of Padilla Bridge preventing motorists from using it on June 30. In the letter distributed to passing motorists in the area, the governor…