Looking back…

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Pangasinan School Beauties of 1960 - Taken from The SUNDAY PUNCH archive of February 7, 1960

Councilors pass watered down pay park edict

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Now its 50-50 sharing basis!
A watered down version of the pay parking ordinance was approved Monday by the city council with seven councilors voting affirmatively and one registering a negative vote.
The original proposal for 80-20 sharing basis on the gross income in favor of the contractor was reduced to 50-50 sharing basis, not on gross [...]

2 men in provincial fiscal's shooting arrested

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BINMALEY - Two more suspected guns-for-hire in Dagupan City were identified and arrested.
The two suspects in the attempted slaying of Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Magin Niño Orlino of San Carlos City were arrested one after the other Friday in Dagupan City by members of the Binmaley police and agents of the National Bureau of Investigation.
P/Supt. [...]

THE RESOURCEFUL PINOY

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THE RESOURCEFUL PINOY - Bancas made from galvanized iron are used to ferry commuters in barangay Lasip, Calasiao left stranded by the flood caused by the overflow of the Marusay river. The flood stranded residents and commuters in barangays Talibaew, Pogo and Vicente and the Poblacion area in front of the public market. - Punchphoto [...]

Dagupan, Urdaneta tagged as drug sources for Baguio

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ARE the cities of Dagupan and San Urdaneta the main sources of illegal drugs now flooding Baguio City?
This question arose following a buy-bust operation conducted by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency from the Cordillera region Tuesday afternoon against suspected drug dealers at sitio Silungan in barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City.
Although this was coordinated [...]

Prosecutor indicts two CHED brass, reporter

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DAGUPAN CITY - False report destroys all presumptions.
Thus determined the City Prosecutor’s Office here last Monday that the Lyceum Northwestern University was a victim of a false and unfair publicity and gave due course to a libel case filed by LNU president Gonzalo Duque against high-ranking officials of the Commission on Higher Education and a [...]

San Roque not to blame for Ecija, Tarlac floods

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Stop blaming your usual suspect for the flooding.
This was the reaction of Antonio Calaycay of the National Power Corporation’s Flood Forecasting and Warning System to accusations aired that the San Roque Dam in San Manuel town was to blame for the severe flooding in Moncada and Paniqui in Tarlac, and Cuyapo in Nueva Ecija [...]

UPang, Russian choir groups tie to win

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WORLD MUSICFEST IN CHINA
When it rains, it pours for the University of Pangasinan.
After Gringo San Diego topped the recent nurses’ board exams, the university chalked up two more honors - national and international.
UPANG was adjudged one of two musical choirs, the other being Slovenia, Russia which bagged the silver honors in the 4th [...]

RTC judge faces case before Supreme Court

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TAYUG - For not issuing warrants of arrest and eventually dismissing the cases filed against two accused  in the brutal slaying of Pasay City Judge  Estrellita Paas in September last year, Regional Trial Court Judge Ulysses Raciles Butuyan of Branch 51 here is now facing an administrative case before the Supreme Court.
The case was filed [...]

WHO'S MINDING THE STREETCHILDREN?

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WHO’S MINDING THE STREETCHILDREN? - An annoyed pedestrian shells out a few pesos to the street children after being pestered on the sidewalk for cash at the eastern end of the Quintos bridge in Dagupan City. The area has been the source of many complaints for bag and cellphone snatching by the streetchildren. Punchphoto [...]

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