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IRIGA CITY (18 February) - ABOUT 400-HECTARES of grass-lands and some forested areas in the territorial area of six barangays in Mt. Asog were razed by spreading grass-fires about 2:00 P.M. of 17 February, the City Mayor's Office in this locality reported today.

It was not certain how the grass fires started, but the PAGASA warned over radio-broadcast that the increasing warm weather in Cam. Sur province brought by the El Niño dry-spell has brought risk to small fires commonly done by farmers to clear fields.

CANAMAN, CAM. SUR - AFTER THE CITY GOVERNMENT of Naga had ignored an appeal by more than 30 business establishments, including a school and a hospital to reconsider the removal of barricades in the implementation of a "one-way" experimental traffic along Panganiban Drive since May last year, Public Works regional director Danilo C. Manalang had intervened by directing the local DPWH district to notify the City government of the removal of the said obstructions along Panganiban Drive, a national highway.

CAMP OLA, LEGAZPI CITY (11 December) - AFTER TWO GUNMEN attempted to assassinate a provincial board-member in Kalipay, Masbate City last December 7, the PNP regional office in Bikol and COMELEC have expressed concern that the shooting incident  may again be a prelude to the traditional culture of violence during elections in this island-province.

NAGA CITY (2 December) - THREE WERE REPORTED DEAD and 15 others injured in a reported collision of a loaded multi-cab vehicle owned by the San Fernando local government and a 10-wheeler truck along the Maharlika Highway at Sitio Baraca, Barangay Del Pilar, San Fernando, Cam. Sur, about 7:00 A.M. on Tuesday (Dec. 1).

The Universidad de Sta. Isabel-Mother Seton Hospital spokesperson Rowena Guadaña had confirmed the identities of three "DOA" victims as: Barangay Councilor Jerry Notado, 36, (driver of the multi-cab) Herwin Santiago, and Victor Noora Jr.

NAGA CITY (29 November) -- IN A SIMPLE PROGRAM held at the Villa Caceres Hotel here, Saturday morning (November 28) members of the "Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP)," its Community Advisory Board, and managers of community radios all over Camarines Sur province, aired a joint statement over region-wide radio-broadcast, condemning the brutality of the "Maguidanao Massacre" last November 23.

RAWIS, LEGAZPI CITY (26 November) - TRAWLERS WITH ACTIVE FISHING GEARS and reportedly armed are plying the fishing grounds of the West Coast of Albay province, specifically the coastal localities of Libon, Ligao, Oas, and Pio Duran, all in this province.

NAGA CITY (5 November) - JEEPNEY PASSENGERS arriving at the North terminal here early dawn today reported that the provincial road leading to the towns of Tinambac, Siruma and the port locality of Tamban had been blocked by landslide along Sitio Hubo of Barangay Bulao-Balite in Tinambac, Cam. Sur.

NAGA CITY (26 October) -Liberal Party (LP) presidentiable Sen. Noynoy Aquino recently made consultations with multi-sectoral groups and old Liberal party members in Naga City, Calabanga, San Fernando towns in Camarines Sur and Albay province during the weekend.

LEGAZPI CITY (22 October) - CASH REPORTEDLY AT HALF MILLION PESOS was reported stolen at the office of Engineer IV Arnold Matamorosa, head of the Task Force Office for the Albay Second Congressional District of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).

However, National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Bicol district office Legazpi City head, Atty. Manuel Antonio M. Eduarte, bared that the reported theft puzzles NBI investigators; evidence of forcible entry was only found on the door entrance of Matamorosa's office and none on the major entrances of the office building.