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Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has reappointed Dr. David J. Herdrich to head the American Samoa Historic Preservation Office (ASHPO) and assigned ASHPO a new board.
 
Herdrich will serve as Historic Preservation Officer, as head of ASHPO. He has served for 20 years as a member of the office and most importantly for 16 years as deputy historic preservation officer under the former head of ASHPO, author John Enright.
 
 And for the past four years, he has served as the Historic Preservation Officer, said Lolo in his appointment memo.

The American Samoa Government's Coral Reef Advisory Group (CRAG), together with the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WESTPAC) and the University of Hawaii at Hilo are working collaboratively to seek out eligible students for the Marine Science Fellowship Scholarship.
 
Applications are currently being accepted and the closing date is June 17, 2013. The scholarship winner will be notified on July 10, 2013.
 

The recent Field Training Exercise (FTX) by ROTC classes at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) saw the main campus malae transformed into a military camp ground, as the cadets in the program practiced battlefield strategies and combat survival techniques.
 
This semester’s FTX had a special twist in that it included a Contract Ceremony for Cadet Raelynn Aliitasioaitulagi Tuilefano Mapu, an ASCC graduate currently in her third year of the Simultaneous Membership Program with the 411th Engineer Battalion at Fort Shafter Flats, Hawaii.
 

The summer is shaping up to be one with plenty of free sporting activities to choose from for the territory's youth, and hopefully this will keep them busy in a positive way while getting them into good physical shape during their summer vacation.
 

OBAMA PROMISES ACTION ON A TRIO OF CONTROVERSIES
 
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama tried to defuse a trio of controversies Thursday, pledging to work with Congress to ensure the IRS doesn't abuse its power, urging legislators to provide more money to strengthen security at U.S. diplomatic outposts and promising to seek "a balance" between national security and a need to protect freedom of the press.
 

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Rounds 3 & 4 were held over the weekend with three teams remaining unbeaten so far in the 2013 FFAS 7-A-Side Tournament — No. 1 Tafuna Jets, No. 2 Black Roses and No. 3 Kiwi Soccers.
 
Tafuna holds the goals differential edge — 24 —while Black Roses need the second tiebreaker of goals scored (15-14) to edge Kiwi for second place as both are tied wth 13 each in the goals difference department.
 

The Fagatogo Rugby Club is wasting no time focusing on their training so they can maintain their fitness and strength while heading towards defending their championship shield, which they won during the 2012 American Samoa Rugby Union (ASRU) 15’s A-Side tournament.
 
The ASRU 2013 15’s tournament was scheduled to start last Saturday, May 11, 2013, but it was cancelled due to bad weather. The president of the Union, Aumoeualogo Te’o Fuavai confirmed to Samoa News yesterday that the tournament will kick-off this Saturday, May 17, 2013.
 

Ua tuuina atu nei e le Vaega o Faamasinoga o Fanua ma Suafa o le Faamasinoga Maualuga a Amerika Samoa, le manumalo mo le umia o le suafa Faiivae o le afioaga i Leone ia Iuli Alex Godinet ina ua maea ona iloilo e alii faamasino molimau ma faamatalaga uma na tuuina atu e itu e lua o lenei mataupu.
 

O se tama e lata i le 60 tausaga le matua o lona soifua mai Pago Pago, na maua atu e ni isi o lona aiga lona tino maliu i totonu o lona fale i le po o le Aso Gafua na te’a nei.
 
Na taua e se molimau e latalata i le aiga i le Samoa News e faapea, na maua atu lenei tama, o lo o tautau i totonu o lona potu ae o lo o ta’ai se ie afu i lona ua.
 
Na faamaonia mai e le tofa Leseiau Laumoli, le sui Komesina o leoleo  le faagasoloina o suesuega a le Matagaluega e faatatau i lenei faalavelave.
 

Na faailoa e le afioga i le kovana sili ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga i faiaoga uma o le atunuu i le Aso Faraile na te’a nei, o le a ia faia gaioiga uma ina ia mautinoa ai e totogi i latou e tusa ai o le agavaa ma le tomai ua latou ausia i le galuega faa faiaoga.
 
Na taua e Lolo e faapea, ua maea ona ia faatonuina le faatonusili o Aoga a le malo, ina ia tuuina atu se ata faata’ita’i mo totogi tala feagai mo faiaoga, ina ia mautinoa e talafeagai le totogia o i latou ma le galuega o lo o latou faia.