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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa Community College held its 74th commencement ceremony on May 21, 2021, on the lawn outside of the Multipurpose Center where ASCC faculty and staff also celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first graduating class in 1971.
A press release from the Governor...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata held a Veterans town hall meeting attended by about two dozen American Samoan Veterans at the Airport Honolulu Hotel on Sunday evening. She provided them with an update from Washington, D.C., on veterans affairs and other issues, and held a question...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 40-year old man from Samoa accused of assaulting his wife at their home in Taputimu village while he was heavily intoxicated, told police that the reason he did was because she misused money to play money games such as “Hit Three” instead of using it wisely to feed...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Residents of the Ottoville area were without electricity this past Sunday night and American Samoa Power Authority executive director Wallon Young told Samoa News on Monday afternoon that this was a “partial outage on Feeder-7 that affected the Ottoville area” only.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department’s Leone Clinic is the new COVID-19 vaccination site, according to the latest DoH health advisory, and it joins the other sites already in place — A.P. Lutali Executive Office Building, Gov. Rex Lee Auditorium, Department of Youth and Women’s Affairs...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lemanu Administration is proposing a food court at the Pago Pago International Airport. Commerce Department director, Petti Matila says the project “will serve the community and the traveling public.”
The project was first revealed in a DOC notice published in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 42-year-old man who drove his wife to Vaitogi late at night for the alleged purpose of beating and killing her because of his suspicions that she was having an affair was arrested last month.
During his arrest, officers discovered illegal drugs in his possession.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Federal attorneys representing US Secretary of Interior, Debra A. Haaland, Chief Justice Michael Kruse and Associate Justice Fiti A. Sunia have filed a 32-page opposition to a request by local resident, Steven Jay Pincus Hueter for leave to file a fourth amended...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — U.S based StarKist Co., has confirmed that its StarKist Samoa cannery in American Samoa has scheduled one-production shift per day, for two weeks, as the company continues with the ongoing challenges of securing workers.
Samoa News had received word from StarKist Samoa...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The COVID-19 Task Force had announced previously that there were 263 passengers — the largest group of repatriated passengers so far — on the 4th repatriation flight, which arrived May 12th and the travelers went into a seven-day quarantine period.
According to the task...