By Eva C. Visperas AS the political climate heats up for the May 12 midterm elections in Pangasinan, the use of dirty tactics in campaigning has reached new lows. I don’t usually get glued to Facebook, but lately, I’ve found myself doing so as a way of assessing the…

By Rex Catubig TO prepare for a reluctant friend’s birthday dinner, I cruised around to scout for some down-home stuff to make into hors d’oeuvres and crudites as a prelude to dinner. I found the “biggest oysters” in town. Not homegrown as I had wanted, but imported from neighboring…
Beyond birthday candles
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! MARCH 31 – (Dagupan City) Rizalina Sandoval; (Calasiao) Catherine Agustin, Nenita Agustin APRIL 02 – (Calasiao) Luzviminda De Vera; Orlando Osmeña; (Baguio City) Alexander de Guzman APRIL 04 – (Dagupan City) Aristotle Fernandez, Myrna Fernandez; (Calasiao) Anita De Vera Happy Birthday! EDNA MAMOCATCAT (MARCH 30 – Manaoag) Happy…
Birthdays/Anniversaries March 30 – April 5, 2025

THE Red flag is up! The 2025 Midterm elections is not going to be just like any other in the past. What it is, and how it will end will be a test of our individual and community moral character. It will not be a mere election of another set…
Hideous 2025 election agenda
By Ermin Garcia Jr. A thought deemed most unlikely to happen, happened at the highest national political level last week. Sen. Imee Marcos, elder sister of PBBM, bolted her brother’s political party with an unprecedented twist. She decided to politically distance herself from her brother’s politics upon getting her…
Giving Sen. Imee a second look

COMELEC RULE VIOLATED – Personnel of the Dagupan City Comelec Office are back on the city’s highway and streets for a day for its token implementation of illegally mounted campaign posters around the city. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
COMELEC RULE VIOLATED
THE Regional Trial Court in Urdaneta denied the temporary restraining order petition filed by the mayor and vice mayor of the city as their one-year suspension was already been put into effect, but noted that there was no proper service of the decision in accordance with the Rules of Court,…
RTC: Suspension order to Paraynos’ not delivered properly
THE seven-member majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod brushed aside accusations that they were to blame for the canceled implementation of the Mother and Child Hospital (MCH), since they passed the needed resolution authorizing Mayor Belen Fernandez to sign a memorandum of agreement for the establishment of the project with the…
Dagupan SP majority refuses to take blame for aborted MCH
URDNAETA City Mayor Julio Parayno III, despite being barred from entering the city hall with the implementation of his one-year preventive suspension, issued a memorandum from his home on March 26 suspending face-to-face classes for public primary and secondary schools from March 26 to 28 due to extreme heat that…
Dagupan, Urdaneta suspend F2F classes due to extreme heat
APRIL 5 will be a special non-working holiday for the celebration of Agew na Pangasinan, with an official declaration issued last week by Malacañang. Proclamation No. 848, s. 2025, signed by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin by authority of the President, acknowledges the significance of the occasion and ensures that the…