PRELUDE TO HOLY WEEK PENITENCE – A man carrying a cross, assisted by his wife and followed by friends and neighbors walk around Calasiao town inviting households to pray with them. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
URDANETA City finally has an acting mayor and vice mayor following the one-year suspension of Mayor Julio Parayno III and Vice Mayor Jimmy Parayno by the Office of the President. Councilors Rio Esteves and Councilor Blesildo Sumera – who ranked No. 7 and 8 among the 10 city councilors in the 2022 election…
THE prestigious annual Bangus Festival will kick off on April 9 with a fun run dubbed “Dagupan Dash” or “Handa na Takbo na!”, to underscore the need for preparedness for natural and man-made disasters. Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez designated Councilor Marcelino Fernandez as chair of the executive committee in…
SOME 22,353 pieces of illegally sized and mounted campaign materials were taken down by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in Pangasinan since the launch of “Oplan Baklas” on March 28, 2025. According to Provincial Election Supervisor Atty. Ericson Oganiza, the operation has successfully dismantled 7,431 posters and tarpaulins from party-list…
DURING HOLY WEEK, ELECTION THE intense political rivalry in Dagupan, for which the city has been classified under the yellow category by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) for the May 12 elections, is manageable and no major incidents are expected, according to the city police chief. P/Lt.Col. Brendon Palisoc, Dagupan…
COMELEC RULE VIOLATED – Personnel of the Dagupan City Comelec Office are back on the city’s highway and streets for a day for its token implementation of illegally mounted campaign posters around the city. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Regional Trial Court in Urdaneta denied the temporary restraining order petition filed by the mayor and vice mayor of the city as their one-year suspension was already been put into effect, but noted that there was no proper service of the decision in accordance with the Rules of Court,…
THE seven-member majority in the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod brushed aside accusations that they were to blame for the canceled implementation of the Mother and Child Hospital (MCH), since they passed the needed resolution authorizing Mayor Belen Fernandez to sign a memorandum of agreement for the establishment of the project with the…
URDNAETA City Mayor Julio Parayno III, despite being barred from entering the city hall with the implementation of his one-year preventive suspension, issued a memorandum from his home on March 26 suspending face-to-face classes for public primary and secondary schools from March 26 to 28 due to extreme heat that…
APRIL 5 will be a special non-working holiday for the celebration of Agew na Pangasinan, with an official declaration issued last week by Malacañang. Proclamation No. 848, s. 2025, signed by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin by authority of the President, acknowledges the significance of the occasion and ensures that the…
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