THE local government of Bolinao is enforcing a price freeze on basic necessities following the town’s official declaration of a state of calamity due to widespread damage brought by Tropical Cyclone Emong (international name: Go-may) and the southwest monsoon. In a post on its official Facebook page on July 30, the local government announced…
RAINS spawned by the southwest monsoon and typhoons in late July affected at least 271 hectares of farmland in Pangasinan, and the initial damage estimate to crops and irrigation facilities is expected to increase as assessment and data collection continue. In the entire Ilocos Region, a total of 959 hectares…
AUTHORITIES are still working to identify the body of a man found lifeless along the shore of Barangay Bolasi in San Fabian. As of July 31, no individual or family has come forward to claim the remains. According to San Fabian Acting Chief of Police, PLt. Col. Danilo M. Perez,…
(Filed by Ahikam Pasion) Man electrocuted while climbing metal post A man died after being electrocuted while climbing a metal post and accidentally came into contact with a live wire.. According to the victim’s brother-in-law, the man had climbed the post to remove old paint. However, during the ascent, he…
THE Pangasinan Heatwaves sizzled hot when they torched the Sarangani Gripper Motorcycle in a dominant fashion, 81-55, during the 7th Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) last July 28 at the Batangas City Coliseum. During the first period, Mike DiGregorio maneuvered the Heatwaves’ offense with his floaters and pull-up jumpers and wound up…
By Leonardo Micua WE motored to Manila last Wednesday to pay our last respect to our boss, Ermin F. Garcia Jr., who made THE Sunday PUNCH , the jewel in Pangasinan journalism, just as what his father, Ermin E. Garcia Sr., wished when he founded the paper in 1956….
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo INDULGE me a bit. At times when I look at the moon in the dead of the night, I wonder if, my life, as little as the lights in the houses from a distant mountain, still matter to the universe. Perhaps, this is why I…
(A Tribute to Sir Ermin Garcia Jr.) By Eva C Visperas SOMETIME in 1991, a young woman walked into the doors of The Sunday PUNCH — unsure, unpolished, and quite frankly, terrified. That woman was me. But Sir Ermin opened the door wide — not just literally, but also figuratively….
By Farah G. Decano THE man I knew as Tito Ermin was a paradox. Despite the tough, hard-hitting image he projected, he possessed a surprising and rare sensitivity in his interactions with others, myself included. While many mature men, the “feeling men” and the “pamintas” — found my stubborn…
By Rex Catubig THE eastern sky began to darken at 2p.m. Soon after, an ominous burst of thunder warned of a heavy downpour. By that time, it was already raining gallons in Sta Barbara; and Urdaneta was also getting drenched. It was imminent, it was just a matter of…
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