The Bogo Times

The Bogo Times brings you another taste of History. Let's go back in time and take a look at Bogo's old Municipal Seal. (Sorry for the pixelated photo. We can't find any other version online.) Municipality of Bogo Official Seal  THE TREE The tree that dominates at the center of the seal retraces the unforgettable founding legend of the town. The community that first started as a mere gathering of fisherman and fish-buyers under a Bogo tree grows to what is now dubbed as queen of Northern Cebu.  THE CHURCH It occupies a big space in the seal, signifying what the people of the town intrinsically are God-loving, religious, and whatsoever of the kind that respect the supreme authority of our omnipotent maker.  THE SUGARCANE It simply represents one of the major crops raised in the town. Majority of the people is earning their living as sugar cane landowners or laborers.  THE PLOW Some people live as farmers being an agricultural t...

by Eufrosino Ursal Luna | Bag-ong Suga | November 26, 1965  Ang Oktubre 25 maoy mapulang titik nga adlaw alang sa mga Bogohanon. Ang tanan manag-ambahan pagkuyog sa usa ka parada agig pagyukbo, pagtahod ug paghandom niadtong daku ug inilang tawo nga nagpahimutang sa kabantug sa Bogo diha sa mapa. Adlaw nga maoy kamatayan ni Senador Don Pedro Lazala Rodriguez, ang bayani ug amahan sa lungsod sa Bogo. Ikakatloan nag tolo ka tuig sumad sa iyang pagkapukan. (sa pagsulat niini) Nyor Indong ang saga itawag kaniya. Natawo niadtong tuig 1869 gikan sa dugo sa mga ginikanang katsila, Don Jose Rodriguez ug Donya Vicente Lazala. Nakatungha sa seminaryo sa San Carlos ug mipadayon didto sa Ateneo de Manila, diin nakahupot sa silid pagka B.S in Agricultural Engineering, A.B ug BSC . Tungod sa gugma sa panguma Nahimo si Nyor Indong nga Presidente-Munisipal sa Bogo sa panahon ni Hen. Emilio Aguinaldo sulod sa mga tuig 1898 hangtud sa 1903. Ug sa 1905 miadto sa Espanya u...

The Mayors of the Municipality of Bogo 1898 - 2007 Don Pedro L. Rodriguez   1898-1903 Vicente dela Viña   1904-1907 Teodorico Rodriguez  1908-1911, 1919-1921, 1925-1928 Roman Fernan 1912-1915 Victoriano Goopio  1916-1918 Paulino Tenchavez  1922-1924 Antonio Mansueto  1929-1932 , 1933-1936 Sergio Rodriguez  1937-1939 Severo Verallo  1939-1940, 1948-1951 Anastacio Pedroza  1942-1943, 1952-1955 Moises R. Lepatan  1943-1944 Perfecto Andrino  1945-1947 Victor E. Lepiten, Jr.  1956-1959 Jesus M. Almirante, Sr.  1960-1963, 1964-1967, 1968-1971 Manuel M. Link, Sr. 1971 Celestino E. Martinez, Jr . 1971-1975, 1976-1979, 1980-1986 Gregorio T. Reyes 1987-1988 Reynaldo E. Dy  1987, 1988-1992, 1992-1995, 1995-1998 Celestino A. Martinez, III  1998-2007 ...

City of Bogo 's name origin has always been embedded in the heart and soul of every Bogohanon.  It is no mystery that the name points to the Bogo trees that thrived in the place where early people came to trade. The tree is called by other names in different provinces and countries.  English Garuga Indonesia Kayu kambing (Sulawesi, Moluccas), ki langit (Sundanese), wiyu (Javanese). Papua New Guinea Garuga Philippines Bogo (Cebuano), Burus (Iloko), Abilo (Tagalog). Trade Name Kedondong The scientific name of this tree is Garuga floribunda Decne, which early botanists found abundant in Iloilo, northern Mindanao and the Central Visayas. Below is the Taxonomy Hierarchy of the Bogo Tree: Kingdom: Plantae    ↪ Phylum: Magnoliophyta       ↪ Class: Magnoliatae          ↪Order : Sapindales             ↪Family: Burseraceae           ...

The year 1600 usher in the founding of a real settlement which was subsequently transformed into a barangay where small huts made of cogon and bamboos squatted at the site where the Bogo Central Extension now stands. While the barangays was then a part of another bustling community in the north, now known as the town of DaanBantayan, the natives enjoyed tacit freedom of self-rule although they continued to pay tributes and taxes to the chieftain of DaanBantayan. This barangay grew in prominence and for this reason, it was separated from the vassalage of DaanBantayan. Hence, in January 1850 the Bishop of Cebu, appointed Father Jaime Micalot, Spanish friar as the first parish priest of Bogo and decreed Saint Vincent Ferrer as the town's patron saint. The first mass was celebrated in the hastily built chapel of cogon roofing and mixed bamboo and lumber materials on April 5, 1850, to coincide with the death anniversary of the patron saint. Unfortunately, however, this chapel was gu...