FINAL CHECK ON DELIVERED BALLOTS – A Comelec employee makes a final count of secured official ballots for the 2025 midterm elections received at the Dagupan City Astrodome for delivery to the voting centers. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
INC ENDORSES MAYOR, VM, 7 COUNCILORS URDANETA City Mayor Julio Parayno III said reelectionist Vice Mayor Jimmy Parayno, his cousin, has likewise started to campaign from home through online platforms as they are now both facing threats to their lives with several groups of hired killers reportedly contracted to go…
THE final testing and sealing of the Automated Counting Machines (ACMs) was completed on May 6 and all units were expected to be positioned at polling centers over the weekend before election day on May 12. Provincial Election Supervisor Ericson Oganiza said logistic providers have been contracted to ensure the…
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) is optimistic of another high voter turnout in Dagupan for the May 12, 2025 midterm polls, following an 89% turnout rate in the city during the 2022 national elections. There are currently 144,481 registered voters in the city, including 438 PDLs (Persons Deprived of Liberty)…
BINMALEY Mayor Pedro Merrera III, who is running for reelection in the May 12 polls, is facing a petition for disqualification due to alleged vote buying filed by his opponent in the mayoralty race, Vice Mayor Simplicio Rosario. The complaint, docketed as Case No. SPA 25-139 (DC), was received by…
Mayor Liseldo Calugay (center), with legal counsel Atty. Victor Morales, speaks to the media at his office on May 6 about the Ombudsman’s suspension order against him. (Photo by Eva Visperas) SUAL Mayor Liseldo “Dong” Calugay continues to hold office, asserting that the suspension order issued by the Ombudsman could…
REGION 1 is grappling with a significant increase in dengue cases, with numbers more than doubling in the first four months of 2025 compared to the same period last year, majority of which were recorded in Pangasinan at 914, including 86 in Dagupan City. Dengue cases from January to April…
THE three-hectare sanitary landfill in Barangay Catablan, managed by the Urdaneta City government, is almost full to the brim and will soon stop accepting wastes from other localities, a city councilor said last week. Councilor Onofre Gorospe said the landfill established in 2010 during the term of former Mayor Amadeo Perez…
LINGAYEN-DAGUPAN Archbishop Socrates Villegas warmly welcomed the election of Pope Leo XIV, as the new head of the Roman Catholic Church, calling his papacy a divine answer to the prayers of the faithful around the world. “The wait is over. Let us thank God for answering our prayers. We have…
KALUTAN ED DALAN 2025 EDITION – Mayor Belen Fernandez leads celebrities in the ceremonial lighting of barbecue grills to signal the opening of the celebration of the Bangus Festival 2025’s “Kalutan ed Dalan” Bangus street party on April 30. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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