August 2017
Fire destroys home in Laulii
![[photo: BC]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fire%20in%20Laulii.jpg?itok=3sc41aBn "[photo: BC]")
Last Thursday morning, firefighters and first responders were called to Laulii, after receiving calls that a two-story home located only a few feet away from several power lines was burning — rapid
![A rare skink thought to be extinct in Niue has been found again, alive and well on the island. Called the Olive Tree skink, the reptile is endemic to Niue and American Samoa. [Photo: 123rf via RNZI]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Olive%20Tree%20skink46712079_l.jpg?itok=6gi3gOZD "A rare skink thought to be extinct in Niue has been found again, alive and well on the island. Called the Olive Tree skink, the reptile is endemic to Niue and American Samoa. [Photo: 123rf via RNZI]")
“REALITY CHECK”
Dear Editor,
Let's face it… with a population of approximately 55,000, we have a two-class society.
![[photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Fono_40.jpg?itok=JGyhuEAe "[photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]")
Paradise of Samoa hosting annual luau Sept. 2 in Oregon
Paradise of Samoa, a Polynesian dance and culture nonprofit group based in Salem, began in 2006 with a question: Why didn’t something like it already exist?
![The now demolished central Fono building before it was torn down this past Saturday, Aug. 26. [SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Fono%20demolition_5.jpg?itok=eC3gjbCd "The now demolished central Fono building before it was torn down this past Saturday, Aug. 26. [SN file photo]")
Still no decision on a freezer storage facility site for StarKist
The American Samoa Government is hopeful that StarKist Co.
Midnight at the Oasis II
Community members enjoying themselves and relaxing last Saturday evening at a highly successful fundraising event full of music — Jazz, oldies & goodies, rock-n-roll — called Midnight at the Oa
Tatala i lalo le maota fono tuai ua silia 40 tausaga le matua
Se vaaiga i le nofoaga sa i ai le maota fono tuai a le atunu’u, lea ua mae’a ona tatala i lalo, mo le fa’amoemoe e toe fausia ai le maota fono fou. [ata AF]
O le fa’aiuga o le vaiaso na te’a nei na tatalaina ai i lalo le maota fono tuai a le atunu’u ua silia i le 40 tausaga lona matua, ma le fa’amoemoe e sauniuni ai mo le fausiaina o le maota fono fou