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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Community College’s (ASCC) Agriculture, Community and Natural Resources (ACNR) Division has collaborated with the college’s division of Student Services (DOSS) counseling services on a six-week pilot program for young adults with disabilities. A total...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming notice of grants for the territory from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation through NOAA and a grant for LBJ from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
NATIONAL COAST RESILIENCE GRANT
National Coast Resilience Funds (NCRF) of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Alleged unpaid overtime incurred during the pandemic by former employees of the Department of Homeland Security comes as a shock to the director, Samana Semo Ve’ave’a.
“I am not aware that they were not paid overtime,” said the director in response to Samoa News...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government’s 45th annual Holiday Music Festival’s opening night was greeted by a festive crowd Sunday night at the Veterans Memorial Monument in Tafuna.
This year’s event features 3 days of choirs presented by ASG Departments — Sunday Dec. 4 though...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Complaints from the public have prompted the Department of Health, Environmental Health Services Division to conduct site inspections.
Last week DOH shut down Milovale, Carl’s Jr and a laundromat in Auto, according to the director of the ASDOH Environmental Health...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Jean P. Haydon Museum Board and friends of the Museum will be meeting with a professional museum curator this week. Dr. Ingrid Ahlgren is the Curator of Oceania at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Lepuia’i Allen Mayer is being held in police custody with bail set at $50,000 on charges of embezzlement and stealing in two separate criminal cases.
This comes after he allegedly misappropriated $14,000 entrusted to him and for allegedly depriving the owner of six...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Community College (ASCC) – Agriculture, Community and Natural Resources (ACNR) Division 4-H program celebrated the establishment of the first 4-H charter club in the territory at Nuuuli Vocational Technical High School (NVTHS).
NVTHS’s Building,...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) welcomed 31 new participants — including 4 from American Samoa — to the Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP) for the Pacific and Caribbean insular areas this week.
The 2023 Cohort is comprised of mid-level...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After more than a decade of attempts, ASG now has access to $23 million in additional funding for the Tualauta drainage project.
This was confirmed by ASG in their newsletter released on Monday.
“The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved...