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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Chief Election Officer, Uiagalelei Lealofi, has officially “certified as candidates” four individuals in the Sept. 12, Special Election for Representative District No. 1, Manu’a. And Uiagalelei also provided a new update on the start of local absentee voting — which...
(Left) It was a bountiful atule harvest in Manu’a last week where Samoan protocol was followed. Atule is never sold — each family is given a share of the harvest. (Right) An Olosega Villager who with others gathered last week to weave tapaau traps to be used as a lau to catch a school of atule....
Ofu, MANUA — Residents of Ofu, Manu’a received quite the scare this past Friday afternoon, when a fire broke out at the new micro grid power plant there, specifically the solar battery storage area.
Rep. Tiaoalii Fauagiga Sai told Samoa News that the fire started around 1p.m. — the same time the...



![The new micro grid power plant in Ofu, Manu’a caught fire last Friday. Nobody was seriously hurt. The lack of fire trucks and proper fire fighting equipment has raised concerns and complaints from Ofu residents and their faipule, Rep. Tiaoalii Fauagiga Sai. [photo: courtesy] Fire at new micro grid power plant in Ofu, Manu’a](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fire_in_ofu.jpg?itok=_N7z_xhZ)