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The Passing Flag Football League (PFFL) conducted by former NFL hard hitting player Niko Noga of American Samoa, will be heading into its third consecutive season this summer.
 
“This year’s league will have a seven-game season, with a ten-man roster for each team, and two divisions,” said Noga. “There will be a division for boys fourteen and under and a division for girls sixteen and under, but if the girls wish to play in the boys division, that will be ok,” he said.
 

Tualauta Faipule Florence Vaili Saulo agrees with Governor Lolo M. Moliga’s move to use the remaining amount of the Western District's $1million as earmarked reserves for a special emergency fund for the LBJ Medical Center.
 
“I agree with you that our hospital does need a lot of financial security, especially when it comes to purchasing medical supplies,” she said.
 

The American Samoa Organization on Aging (ASOA), a non-profit organization that helps serve the needs of the elderly and aging population in the territory, was recently faced with a big problem estimated to cost them thousands of dollars to fix, if the Department of Public Works had not come to the rescue.
 

The Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) honor society at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) not only recognizes exceptional scholastic achievement, but also encourages community engagement among its members. In keeping with their tradition of organizing a community service project each semester, to round off their spring 2013 activities the PTK is appealing to the public to assist them in putting together a shipment of “goods from home” for Samoan troops currently stationed in Afghanistan.