Tafuna High School held its 2025 40th Commencement, June 10, 2025, at the Kanana Fou gymnasium. The 200+ graduates, included three Vals and one Sal. The caps or mortarboards, worn by the graduates for their ceremony proudly recognize the school’s football accomplishments as 5-Peat champions, as well as being “warriors” — Finafinau I Mea Lelei — of #2K25. Samoa News will publish story and photos sponsored by Congresswoman Uifaatali Amata, in Friday’s print issue. [photo: GF]
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Tautai-O-Samoa Longline & Fishing Association president, Krista Haleck, has penned her disappointment with StarKist Samoa following a recent meeting with the company’s procurement team.
The June 3, 2025, letter was addressed to Joseph Choi, StarKist Director of Procurement.
According to Haleck, the members individually shared the issues surrounding the...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Tautai-O-Samoa Longline & Fishing Association president, Krista Haleck, has penned her disappointment with StarKist Samoa following a recent meeting with the company’s procurement team.
The June 3, 2025, letter was addressed to Joseph Choi, StarKist Director of...
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June 10, 2025Dear Director Taufetee, I am writing as a deeply concerned sister of a minor child (J.M), a 9th-grade student at Voc Tech High School, to formally report and demand immediate action...
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ASBF Coach Stanley Iakopo wrapping boxer Losi Tunoa's hands before his fight last Friday night at the “Rise Up Boxing Competition” hosted by Marist Boxing Samoa. The American Samoa Boxing Federation (ASBF) raised concerns over mismatches, questionable officiating, and misleading assurances from organizers at the “Rise Up Boxing Competition”. (Story with more details to be published in Wednesday’s June 04, 2025 Samoa News edition.) [photo: Asi A. Fa'asau]June 3, 2025ASBF Coach Stanley Iakopo wrapping boxer Losi Tunoa's hands before his fight last Friday night at the “Rise Up Boxing Competition” hosted by Marist Boxing Samoa.The American Samoa... -
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