THE Department of Education (DepEd) Dagupan City Schools Division Office (SDO) is gearing up for the resumption of limited face-to-face classes come Monday, March 21. In an interview Thursday, March 17, DepEd Dagupan Superintendent Dr. Aguedo Fernandez said almost all public elementary and high schools in the city, save for…
COMMUNITY LIFE UNDER NEW NORMAL – Some 100 artist volunteers from the Eastern Pangasinan–Villasis, Rosales, Urdaneta, Balungao, Umingan, Asingan, Natividad, Tayug, Sta Maria, and Sto. Tomas – work on a 300-meter wall mural in Villasis town depicting aspirations in their daily lives under the New Normal, post the COVID-19 pandemic. (Punchphoto…
AFTER FIVE MONTHS DELAY THE office of City Mayor Brian Lim finally submitted the city government’s proposed Devolution Transition Plan (DPT) to the Dagupam Sangguniang Panlungsod before the close of office hours on March 9, five months past its deadline on October 12, 2021. As the prescribed process mandates, the…
REENACTED BUDGET LOOMS DAGUPAN City is close to operating with a reenacted budget up to the end of the year after the Indicative Annual Procurement Plan (IAPP) in lump sum form submitted to the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) by the office of the city mayor on December 20, 2021 was found…
NATIONAL VACCINATION DAY LAUNCH – Dr. Paula Paz Sydiongco of DOH Region 1, administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Madelyn Manaloto during the launching of National Vaccination Days Part IV at Lucao Elementary School in Barangay Lucao in Dagupan City. Looking on are Sec. Vince Dizon (left), Presidential Adviser for COVID-19 Response and Mayor…
PANGASINAN and Dagupan City are the among the highest vaccinated provinces and cities, respectively, in the country today. This was bared by Secretary Vince Dizon, presidential adviser on COVID-19 response, who led the “Bida sa New Normal Road Show” at Monarch Hotel on March 10. Dizon told newsmen that it…
THE Pangasinan is drawing closer to becoming COVID-free after records of March 10 showed there were only 24 active cases, nine cases lower than the 33 active cases a week ago on March 3. The recent data released by the Provincial Health Office (PHO) showed that there were 46 patients…
THE local government of Sto. Tomas ranked number one in the second dose coverage of COVID-19 vaccination in Region 1. Mayor Timoteo Villar III received on March 10 a Certificate of Commendation from the Department of Health (DOH) recognizing and commending the efforts of Santo Tomas, Pangasinan “for pushing for…
NEW NORMAL FOR ASH WEDNESDAY — The St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in Dagupan City opened its doors in observance of Ash Wednesday for the first time since 2020. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
ONLY 33 ACTIVE CASES ON HOME CARE ONLY 33 active cases, all asymptomatic and with mild symptoms and needed no hospitalization, remained in Pangasinan as of March 3, bolstering its bid to become the first COVID-free province in the region. From February 24-March 3, 56 patients recovered and discharged from…
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