RETURN OF THE TALONG FESTIVAL – The performers dance heartily to deliver the message that fun and excitement in Villasis town are back at the Talong Festival. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan passed a resolution congratulating and commending Dr. Ellen Poyaoan-Santos for winning the title Elite Mrs. Universe 2022 in the recently concluded Mrs. Universe Pageant held in Sydney, Australia on December 4, 2022. Resolution No. 968, authored by Third District Board Member Vici Ventanilla cited that Dr. Poyaoan-Santos,…
San Carlos City’s doctor is Elite Mrs. Universe
YOUNG DRAGON DANCERS – Young girls hold up the Dancing Dragon as they weave though Dagupan’s business center during the Lunar Year parade. Traditionally, young men do the chore. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
YOUNG DRAGON DANCERS
FARMERS WORRY OVER ARRIVAL OF IMPORTED STOCK THE price of onions in Pangasinan slowly started dropping since the harvest season begun. A kilo of red onions, locally known as the ‘Bombay’ and the ‘Super Pinoy’ variants, was already being sold at P220 in Dagupan City markets last week, as opposed…
Selling price of onion price in Pangasinan steadily drops
FIRST it was the price of rice, then sugar, then households in Pangasinan woke up last week to find prices of eggs in their local markets higher by P2 reportedly because of low supply. A tray now costs an average of P225 to P250, as supplies while small eggs were…
Eggs sell for P2 more in markets
By Leonardo Micua INQUIRER.net reported on Friday (before our deadline) that the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chaired by Senator Francis Tolentino has recommended the filing of criminal charges against at least eight former and current officials of the Department of Education and of the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget…
Capitol failed to protect our onion growers
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo UNLIKE in jazz and rhythm and blues, where blue notes are used in spirituals, chants and rhymed narrative ballads, the blue note in poetry is melancholic, unrhymed and unsung. A silent, heart-rending wail living in between the verses, unable to shed tears. The knowing…
Blue notes
By Farah G. Decano DAGUPAN City’s advancement seems to be blocked by a Goliath of an opposition. With seven members solidly identified with the opposition and only five with the administration, it would seem impossible for any proposed budget to be enacted, right? Wrong. It is possible. The enactment…
The power of numbers
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. “THERE’S always first time in life,” one of the world’s popular cliché, that happens to me time and again. Last January 15 during the “First. Jesus Rivera Garcia, Sr. Lingayen Gulf Landing Memorial Race” an amateur bikefest, I sponsored for my first bikefest in…
“There’s always first time in life”
NEWLY elected Calasiao Mayor Mamilyn ‘Maya’ Caramat, was laid to rest on Wednesday, January 18 at the town’s Garden of Eden Memorial Park after a necrological mass at the St. Peter and Paul Parish Church officiated by Archbishop Socrates Villegas. Leading the funeral cortege that moved solemnly were members of…
