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Kindergartners at Samoa Baptist Academy performing last Thursday during the school’s annual Christmas program. The school treated levels 3 to 8 to a movie outing at the theater on Friday before the students returned to have their class parties to close the year before their holiday break. [...
Eugene, OREGON — See a container of Cup Noodles at a convenience store and you might think of dorm rooms and cheap calories.
But there was a time when eating from the product’s iconic packaging exuded cosmopolitanism, when the on-the-go meal symbolized possibility – a Japanese industrial food with...
The top floor of the main Port Administration building at the Port of Pago Pago is being dismantled, as the unsafe facility is set to be taken down soon to make way for a new ASG Seaport Facility, which is one of the three Port Administration Department projects funded with money from the American...
On Wednesday night, December 01, 2021, CCCAS Fagatogo Youth held its 2nd Annual Christmas Lighting with the theme "Let God Shine Through”. It was a night to reflect on God's everlasting love and protection from the pandemic for our islands of American Samoa.[courtesy photo]
Around 7:30a.m yesterday a long line had already formed at the Utulei Branch of the Territorial Bank of American Samoa with people waiting to cash their Advance Child Tax Credit (ACTC) checks, or withdraw through their direct-deposit. Around 11a.m., Samoa News observed people still standing in line...
Palo Alto, CA — Plastic waste of all shapes and sizes permeates the world’s oceans. It shows up on beaches, in fish and even in Arctic sea ice. And a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine makes clear that the U.S. is a big part of the problem.
As the report...
Time for that Christmas evening ride with Family: A Hawaiian style Christmas setting including characters from the Disney movie “Moana” at a business compound along the Tafuna airport road. Holiday decorations along the territory’s roads attract many Christmas visitors — taking an evening ride with...
Office of Disaster Assistance and Petroleum Management (ODAPM) staff working to put together and wrap Christmas gifts for the annual Territorial Administration on Aging (TAOA) program in the coming days. As in past years, ASG departments and agencies are assigned to provide gifts that will be...
A LITTLE BIT OF KINDNESS — A thank you shout out from the Junior Class of Samoana High School to everyone who donated goods and lent a helping hand during their “Kindness Month” initiative — thanks for making it a highly successful drive. [photo: courtesy]
Queensland, AUSTRALIA — The previous pandemics to which people often compare COVID-19 – the influenza pandemic of 1918, the Black Death bubonic plague (1342-1353), the Justinian plague (541-542) – don’t seem that long ago to archaeologists. We’re used to thinking about people who lived many...