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Session Road, Baguio City (Photo courtesy of Baguio City-PIO Facebook) MANILA - The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) recorded on Sunday the coldest temperatures so far in Baguio City and National Capital Region (NCR) this year. Baguio City's air temperature dropped to 11.4 Celsius at 4:50 a.m. while PAGASA's Science Garden monitoring station in Quezon City recorded 20.4 Celsius at around 6:15 a.m. The state weather bureau said the cold...

(Photo courtesy of Philippine Red Cross) MANILA - As the active ally of the government, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) also supports local government-run Bakuna Centers in many parts of the country to help curb the Covid-19 pandemic. In Baguio City, the PRC volunteers and staff have supported the vaccination of 740 individuals at the government-run Bakuna Center at the Athletic Bowl Drive-Thru every Wednesday since it opened last Nov. 8, 2021. "As the Red Cross continues to stand to provide...

Staff and volunteers from the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) supported the vaccination of a total of 740 individuals at the government-run Bakuna Center at the Athletic Bowl drive-thru in Baguio City every Wednesday since it opened on Nov. 8. (Photo courtesy of the Philippine Red Cross / MANILA BULLE

The city of Baguio is about to have its own bike lanes. This after a P50 million, 14-kilometer bike lane pre-procurement bidding schedule is already set on June 15. City Engineer Edgar Victorio Olpindo zsaid the project is in consonance with the inverted pyramid for mobility or transport which pr

BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Benjamin Magalong here assured that the city is handling the spike in COVID-19 cases with its well-placed control systems.

SunStar + March 12, 2021 LAST City Council session, the phrase “kawawa kaming mga roving vendors, wala kaming makain” has again been used to appeal to the setting up of the pasalubong booth in Burnham Park. But let me show another side of that Kawawa kami that people are now using more often during this pandemic. There are always many sides to a story and “kawawa kami” is of many sides. At the first public hearing that I conducted upon the start of my term in July 2019 was ...

SunStar January 29, 2021 THE new city ordinance banning chewing betel nut quid has stimulated the resurgence and telling of “Kiangan jokes.” There is no better way to forget and escape the boring atmosphere of home self-quarantine but re-live those funny and entertaining jokes among family members and friends. Kiangan jokes are raillery banters or good-humorous teasing. And the butt of ridicule is normally a personality from Kiangan. Kiangan is the ancient town in Ifugao provi...

December 18, 2020 THE Christmas Season is in the air. Though it is pandemic, we are catching the excitement after the Church lighted the Advent candles. When I go home at night, when I see the Christmas lights lighted in our neighborhood, I also switch on my Christmas lights to brighten a seemingly bleak season because of the pandemic. With this then is the Christmas buying and selling of items to give away to friends and family. People now have planned to do Baratilyos, Christmas ...

SunStar + December 11, 2020 DECADES ago, you could judge a city by the number of newsstands on its main streets. Baguio City already was a cosmopolitan city even then. In the early 1920s, it already has a bookstore, owned by the mother of the great grammarian Jean Edades. At that time, most of Manila still had no electricity. After Manila, many of the English language newspapers sprouted in Baguio even before Baguio became a charter city in 1909. Yes, Baguio had a lot of newsstands...