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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG’s Office of Disaster Assistance and Petroleum Management (ODAPM) is now on a 12-month probation period after the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) lifted draw down restrictions, while setting conditions for the local Homeland Security Department (ASDHS) in...
ASG Execuive Office Building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG’s Human Resources Department is looking for “quality and productive worksites” to employ participants of the government-sponsored Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP), which begins June 27 and runs through Aug. 19 for a duration of 8-weeks. In a June 1 letter to...
New Lupelele Elementary School gym
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Structures like this are an investment towards our students’ athletic and academic achievements,” Lt. Gov. Talauega E.V. Ale said during the dedication ceremony for the new half million dollar plus Lupelele Elementary School gymnasium last Wednesday. The Department of...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man convicted of assaulting his niece with the handle of a shovel was ordered by the court to depart the territory and remain outside of its borders as a condition of his 5-year probation. Taumafai Siitia, who has been in custody since his arrest in July of last year...
Newly resurfaced road in Vaitogi
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lemanu-Talauega Administration is taking four key actions to improve village and school access roads to allow medical personnel or staff to respond in a timely manner, to prevent the spread of the pandemic, and to ensure the safety within the school community and...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Facebook status post by a woman and her two daughters has landed all of them in jail after they were arrested for disturbing the public peace in their neighborhood. (A Facebook status is an update feature, which allows users to discuss their thoughts, whereabouts, or...
Amata with other CODEL members
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata was in Poland last week as part of a Congressional Delegation that focused on the refugee situation from neighboring Ukraine. The CODEL met with U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski; held a site visit at the National Stadium Refugee Center;...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two brothers from Vaitogi were arrested last month on the allegation that they assaulted the man who had allegedly assaulted their father; and, after a police investigation, their victim,Tony Vaifanua, was also arrested and charged for the assault of the two brothers’...
Acting chief of staff Jason Mitchell
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — To ensure that American Samoa obtains millions of dollars in new broadband infrastructure federal funding from the U.S National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), ASG has setup the Broadband Core Working Group (BCWG), with their first meeting held...
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs has approved its annual agreement with the Ninth Judicial Circuit to provide legal training and oversight responsibilities for the judiciaries in American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and...

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