PUTTING its newly-implemented alert color code on city rivers, the city agriculture office alerted fish farmers here about the low dissolved oxygen count in a portion of the Dagupan waters, suggesting possible onset of a fishkill.

The office of City Agriculture Officer Emma Molina immediately placed red code in the waters at the boundary oof Dagupan and Binmaley town and another red code in the waters of sitio Talaib in barangay Lucao.
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THE city council headed by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez passed a resolution seeking to renew the sisterhood agreement between Dagupan City and Malpitas City California whose mayor, Jose Estevez is from Dagupan.

Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo, chair of the committee on tourism in the city council, said Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. is set to go to the U.S. sometime in October to sign this agreement with his counterpart, Mayor Estevez of Milpitas City. Read more

ONE of three men who held up a Manila-bound bus at dawn of June 6, 2005 along the provincial road in barangay Barangobong here that ended in a shoot-out and the killing of a baby girl was sentenced to reclusion perpetua by the Regional Trial Court after more than two years of trial.

Convicted in a 12-page decision handed down by RTC Judge Ulysses Raciles Butuyan of Branch 51 was Joel de la Pena, a native of Koronadal, Cotabato, who with two others, held up passengers of a Five Star Bus that just left its station in Poblacion, Tayug. Read more