SIX medal-winning athletes from Dagupan City, led by Wushu gold medalist Agatha Wong, shared their memorable experiences with the Dagupan community during the “Sumbungan ng Bayan” program hosted by Mayor Belen Fernandez on cable TV’s channel K-17 on December 23. Accompanied by their coaches, the athletes were brought to the…
IN 2025, our community faced calamities of a different kind. Dagupan City and the province of Pangasinan were battered by a series of devastating typhoons that unleashed deadly floods. Lives were risked, livelihoods destroyed, and the poor—once again—were pushed deeper into hardship. The damage appeared incalculable, but amid the devastation,…
By Gonzalo Duque THEY should put more nuclear power plants not only in Labrador but all over the country, as many as where the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) sites are located. Kawawang Pilipinas! * * * * Happy New Year to Mayor Belen Fernandez, VM Bryan Kua and…
By Leonardo Micua HAPPY New Year to one and all! Social media political trolls had their day again last week when a supposed holdup incident was circulated online, allegedly occurring in broad daylight at the busy intersection of A.B. Fernandez Avenue and Arellano Street. The problem: the incident never…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo EACH year, each household in Quezon City is given a bagful of food items for Christmas through the Pamaskong Handog (PH) of the Mayor’s Office. Last year, we received the food items consisting of rice, spaghetti with torn plastic, dented cans of Alaska milk, CDO…
By Eva C. Visperas WHENEVER Christmas comes, my thoughts naturally drift to three celebrations that have shaped my life in deeply personal ways: the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Dagupan City Fiesta, and the birthday of the greatest statesman I have ever met in my 37 years…
By Rex Catubig ViICTORIO Edades, the illustrious son of Dagupan, is without a doubt, the primus inter pares among the city’s brightest sons. But his memory precariously dangles on the corroding recall of people in the city he lived in, and in the fading fragile minds of his diminishing…
THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod has adopted a resolution commending and congratulating Ms. Agatha Wong, whose roots trace back to Dagupan City, for her remarkable achievements at the 33rd Southeast Asian Games in Thailand, where she secured two gold medals in the women’s wushu events of Taijijian and Taijiquan. Sponsored by…
AS we celebrate the joy and quiet wonder of the Yuletide season, The Sunday Punch extends its heartfelt wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to its readers, partners, and the communities we serve. Christmas comes each year wrapped in familiar settings—lights, songs, greetings, and gatherings—but beneath…
ROUGH SAILING FOR PROJECT SEEN TWO Philippine cardinals and 27 other archbishops and bishops from across the country lent their voice to the growing opposition to the construction of a nuclear power plant not only in Pangasinan, but anywhere else in the Philippines. Cardinal Virgilio David of Kalookan and Cardinal…
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