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Kava bowls on displace at the new Territorial Administration on Aging store at the TAOA compound in Pago Pago that was officially dedicated and opened Monday.  [photo: AF]
The Territorial Administration on Aging has opened a shop at its compound in Pago Pago selling handicrafts made by senior citizens and have also hired just over 20 senior citizens to work part time under a federally funded program. The two events for TAOA were launched Monday morning. During the...
Education, each gubernatorial team’s platform, the Samoan language, Manu’a transportation issues were among the issues the ASCC Student Government Association (SGA) asked the three gubernatorial teams during the forum held at the ASCC gymnasium yesterday afternoon. Attending the forum were the...
American Samoa authorities have arrested an American man, wanted by Tongan authorities for murder, and he is being held without bail per order of the District Court, where he will appear again on Oct. 26. Fifty-three year old Dean J. Fletcher made his initial appearance yesterday in District Court...
Chairman of the Territorial Bank of American Samoa (TBAS), Utu Abe Malae in his special remarks, during the opening of the new bank on Monday, used the opportunity to correct “the math” about the bank advertised in the paper and discussed on the radio by one of the gubernatorial teams. Utu did not...
 INCREASING NUMBER OF MANU’A SENATORS Before the Fono went into a second mid session recess last Friday, the Senate approved in second reading a Senate Joint Resolution which seeks to increase the number of Manu’a senatorial seats from three to five. The joint resolution, which would require...
Criminal Justice Planning Agency director Keith Gebauer has reiterated that there isn’t any more federal funding available from the US Department of Justice to help with community and village programs, which has been helpful to local village groups, or aumaga in past years. Gebauer appeared last...
Posing for the Samoa News camera, one of the many South Pacific Academy students who participated in the school’s wave yesterday morning, reminding the public of the negative impact of bullying. [Photo: JL]
South Pacific Academy has joined the globe in raising awareness against bullying on the first Monday of October each year. This year they are wearing blue shirts, and decided to also hold a wave in front of their school yesterday morning. More than 200 students participated along with staff and...
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga during yesterday’s official opening of the Territorial Bank of American Samoa. In his remarks he said the solid collaboration, fashioned between the Legislative Branch and the Executive Branch, upon receipt of notification of the exodus of the Bank of Hawaii, facilitated this day.  [photo: AF]
“Today is history in the making. Not because we have dared to defy status quo, or endeavored to find banking solutions for our people, our businesses, and our economy, but more so because the leaders of our Territory have come together to find the answer to the crippling challenge affecting the...
The second category of local absentee voting, electors who will be on island but unable to go to the polling stations to cast ballots on election day, Nov. 8th, starts next week. Those qualifed electors are individuals confined to any hospital, public institution, at home because of illness or...
A federal court judge has granted final approval of a multi million dollar settlement in a lawsuit filed in February 2013 by a California resident against StarKist Co., which owns StarKist Samoa cannery in American Samoa. As previously reported by Samoa News, it was July last year that U.S....

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