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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Society of Fa'afafines of American Samoa — SOFIAS will be hosting their 38th Annual Miss S.O.F.I.A.S pageant this coming Saturday - June 5, 2021 at the Lee Auditorium.
In May, SOFIAS hosted their "Meet the Contestants" event at Don't Drink the Water (DDW) providing...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Attorneys representing the Territory of American Samoa — through ASG and the Governor’s Office — are asking the United States Supreme Court to approve its “writ of certiorari” to review a federal appeal’s court ruling, which reversed a lower court decision dealing with...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 31-year-old man with an outstanding arrest warrant was picked up by police last month and charged with unlawful possession of drugs after a man told authorities that his nephew bought two marijuana cigarettes and a glass pipe containing methamphetamine (meth) from him...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Through a May 27th memorandum, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga has expanded the government Compliance Review Committee, with the appointment of three new members: Education director Talauega Dr. Samasoni Asaeli; Human and Social Service director, Muavaefa’atasi...
Washington, D.C. — Tuesday, Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata was pleased to welcome a federal grant worth $583,215 for American Samoa. The federal grant, awarded through the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is part of the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Head of the Diocese of Samoa Pago Pago, Bishop Peter Brown says there was no damage to the church’s Fatuoaiga facility, which housed about 40 travelers from the 4th repatriation flight that arrived on May 12th.
Among the issues mentioned in a COVID-19 Task Force news...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Government officials, business representatives and friends gathered at the DDW Restaurant last week to witness the official launch of a guidebook for the territory called, “Explore American Samoa”.
The book was written by Melinda Laura Clayville, founder and creator of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An ASG delegation led by Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga met with StarKist’s plant director last week to discuss cannery operations. No additional information was provided by either the Governor’s Office or StarKist corporate office on issues that were covered...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) has found that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposed rule to designate critical habitat for seven threatened corals in U.S. waters in the Indo-Pacific is “not based on the best scientific information...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “How can a person in custody come up positive for methamphetamine?”
This is the question Associate Justice Fiti Sunia asked about Fereti Talosaga’s case last week. Talosaga, who is in custody, appeared in High Court last Thursday for a Disposition Hearing for violating...