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The Home of the Mighty Lions held their 51st Commencement ceremony yesterday morning at the Leone High School gymnasium.
Families and friends of well-deserved graduates gathered with pride, joy and tears to celebrate the graduates last journey in high school.
Honored guests present at the ceremony...
![MASI president Simeafou Imo accompanied Miss American Samoa Antonina Lilomaiava to Apia last week, seeking assistance on a project aimed at promoting literacy in the territory. The two were able to secure a donation from SSAB and a formal presentation will be made to the LBJ Hospital later this summer. [courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/MASI%20president%20n%202017%20miss_0.jpg?itok=MyI-gmkN "MASI president Simeafou Imo accompanied Miss American Samoa Antonina Lilomaiava to Apia last week, seeking assistance on a project aimed at promoting literacy in the territory. The two were able to secure a donation from SSAB and a formal presentation will be made to the LBJ Hospital later this summer. [courtesy photo]")
Almost a year after Antonina Lilomaiava won the Miss American Samoa title, the young beauty from Aua is teaming up with her sponsor — Samoa Stationery and Books (SSAB) — and Miss American Samoa Incorporated (M.A.S.I.) to make good on one of their shared goals. That is, to promote literacy in the...
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A man accused of using the handle of a machete to assault his wife, causing injuries to the victim, has been sentenced to serve 20 months imprisonment after being convicted of second degree felony assault.
(Samoa News usually does not publish a defendant’s name in domestic cases to...
A former senior executive of StarKist Co. has been charged by the US Justice Department through an information complaint, relating to the ongoing federal investigation into price fixing in the seafood packaged industry.
And StarKist has confirmed in a statement to Samoa News that the company had...
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Police Commissioner Le’i Sonny Thompson is moving to expand manpower and strengthen the Department of Public Safety’s Vice & Narcotics Tactical Unit by inviting police officers to meet with the Commissioner before the end of next week.
“The expansion of our Vice & Narcotics Tactical Unit is...
![Last Friday, Bluesky announced 9 high school recipients who will be receiving funds to support and improved their school projects. Bluesky is big in improving technology, sports, and culture in education. Congrats to the nine! [photo: EM]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/bluesky_0165.jpg?itok=9bcHKRcP "Last Friday, Bluesky announced 9 high school recipients who will be receiving funds to support and improved their school projects. Bluesky is big in improving technology, sports, and culture in education. Congrats to the nine! [photo: EM]")
Last Friday morning, Bluesky hosted a private ceremony to announce the recipients who were selected to receive funds to improve their high schools.
Bluesky had put out a notice inviting students, teachers and those who were interested to better their high schools to apply for Bluesky’s High School...
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The local Department of Education (ASDOE) is in the process of preparing and submitting its application for funding under the U.S. Department of Education’s Consolidated Grant to the Insular Areas for fiscal year 2017.
ASDOE director Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga says the Consolidated Grant is now on a...
![Faasao Marist High School Class of 2017 performed their Graduation song. [photo:EM]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/class%20some_0305.jpg?itok=TkbGin4k "Faasao Marist High School Class of 2017 performed their Graduation song. [photo:EM]")
“A sweet Ending to a New Beginning” was the theme the Cougars and Crusaders of Faasao Marist High School graduates chose for their special day last Saturday at Fatu-O-Aiga hall, which is a part of the Catholic cathedral compound.
Proud parents, relatives and close friends gathered at the hall to...
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ASG Deputy Treasury for Revenue, Keith Gebauer, has outlined for port users guidelines of standards of processing, inspection of incoming cargo including imported vehicles, scanning process for vehicles and request for after-hours customs agents. In a June 1 email to local port users, he said they...
Congresswoman Aumua Amata says she can understand the disappointment Pacific Islanders feel about the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Pact.
Click here to link to statements by Pacific leaders.
However, she feels that this is an opportunity to come up with a better and more effective...