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It was Christmas holiday spirit week at the Commerce Department with director, Petti Matila and her staff posing in this DOC photo posted on its Facebook page earlier this week. [photo: DOC Facebook]
Claremont, CA — Discussions about women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the LDS church or Mormon church, often revolve around one question: Will they ever be ordained?
Latter-day Saint women may serve as leaders of women’s or children’s organizations, but power in...
A PALAGI ‘UMU’ … The holiday display put together by the Office of Disaster Assistance and Petroleum Management (ODAPM), as seen in this Samoa News photo taken Monday afternoon. The display is one of the many set up by employees of ASG departments and offices on the lawn of the A.P. Lutali...
Kindergartners at Samoa Baptist Academy performing last Thursday during the school’s annual Christmas program. The school treated levels 3 to 8 to a movie outing at the theater on Friday before the students returned to have their class parties to close the year before their holiday break. [...
Eugene, OREGON — See a container of Cup Noodles at a convenience store and you might think of dorm rooms and cheap calories.
But there was a time when eating from the product’s iconic packaging exuded cosmopolitanism, when the on-the-go meal symbolized possibility – a Japanese industrial food with...
The top floor of the main Port Administration building at the Port of Pago Pago is being dismantled, as the unsafe facility is set to be taken down soon to make way for a new ASG Seaport Facility, which is one of the three Port Administration Department projects funded with money from the American...
On Wednesday night, December 01, 2021, CCCAS Fagatogo Youth held its 2nd Annual Christmas Lighting with the theme "Let God Shine Through”. It was a night to reflect on God's everlasting love and protection from the pandemic for our islands of American Samoa.[courtesy photo]
Around 7:30a.m yesterday a long line had already formed at the Utulei Branch of the Territorial Bank of American Samoa with people waiting to cash their Advance Child Tax Credit (ACTC) checks, or withdraw through their direct-deposit. Around 11a.m., Samoa News observed people still standing in line...
Palo Alto, CA — Plastic waste of all shapes and sizes permeates the world’s oceans. It shows up on beaches, in fish and even in Arctic sea ice. And a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine makes clear that the U.S. is a big part of the problem.
As the report...
Time for that Christmas evening ride with Family: A Hawaiian style Christmas setting including characters from the Disney movie “Moana” at a business compound along the Tafuna airport road. Holiday decorations along the territory’s roads attract many Christmas visitors — taking an evening ride with...