ABONG ni Tio Berto’s three-course entry topped this year’s Ponsia: Pangasinan Culinary Challenge held April 27 at the Pangasinan Training and Development Center (PTDC) in Lingayen as part of the Pista’y Dayat celebration. Titled Apoy at Yelo: Lasa’t Likha mula sa Dagat at Lupa, the meal consisted of pinidpid…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! MAY 04 – (Dagupan City) Rowena Fernandez; (Calasiao) Anthony dela Vega, Myrna Guico MAY 06 – (Dagupan City) ROBERT ERFE-MEJIA; (Mangaldan) Melchor Sampaga; (Pozorrubio) Anastacio dela Cruz, Minda dela Cruz MAY 08 – (Dagupan City) – Adelaida Mendoza, Claire Andrew Santiago; (Calasiao) Kristine De Vera Happy…
Birthdays/Anniversaries May 4 – 10, 2025
By Gonzalo Duque THE elections are just around the corner. And the Alyansa senatorial candidates, to my mind, are still finding it hard to beat the candidates of the PDP Laban. More so with the investigation initiated by Senator Imee Marcos recommending the prosecution of Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla,…
My senatorial list
By Leonardo Micua SENATORIAL wannabe Rep. Camille Villar was among the biggest crowd-drawers, together with our own Manay Gina de Venecia, during Dagupan’s “Kalutan ed Dalan” and Street Party last April 30. Camille’s presence during the event more than made up for her absence, as she was under the weather,…
Camille at the Kalutan
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo “Questions of a Woman’s Life” was composed on the 24th of March, 2017. The other poem, “Blind” may have been composed in the same year. There are still no answers but she’s no longer blind. half a life of what she lived others live today…
No answers
By Farah G. Decano IT has been seven years since my father had passed on. I cannot help but be reminded of his last moments on earth, how ephemeral life is, and how tough that “final” battle was. My two older sisters took care of my father during that…
Ready for your ultimate battle?
By Eva c. Visperas HE was a VIP visitor during last week’s Bangus Festival highlights in Dagupan City. Meet Vice Mayor Garry Barbadillo, ESQ, of Milpitas, California, USA. He visited Dagupan on an official trip in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the sister-city relations between Milpitas and Dagupan….
What Dagupan taught a visiting Milpitas VM

By Rex Catubig THE recent Placemaking competition organized by trailblazing creative Cong Toff de Venecia, whose culminating event was held a few days ago, harks back to the street art exhibit and installations that transformed an otherwise abandoned and lifeless shells of what was the OVR or Office of…
Placing the possible

ALYANSA IN DAGUPAN TO WIN HEARTS AND MINDS – Former Sen. Ping Lacson engages local media during the press conference before the Alyansa rally held at the CSI Stadia while fellow candidates Erwin Tulfo, Benhur Abalos, Abby Binay, Tito Sotto and Francisco Tolentino await for their opportunities to express their own views….
ALYANSA IN DAGUPAN TO WIN HEARTS AND MINDS
ALYANSA Para sa Bagong Pilipinas on Friday issued a firm statement of unity with the Filipino people amid growing fears of foreign interference in the May midterm elections, declaring that only Filipinos must decide the country’s future. “Our future must be determined by us alone,” said Navotas City Rep. Toby…