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Manumalo Academy students thanks Rotary for dictionaries
Manumalo Academy third graders are sending out a big THANK YOU to the Rotary Club of Pago Pago. The local Rotary Club distributes the Children's Scholastic Dictionary to all 3rd graders in American Samoa. The dictionary is a gift to the students, who will take it home to be used in their studies....
clean up team
This photo posted on the DoH Environmental Enforcement division Facebook page shows team members taking a break during last Friday’s government-sponsored island-wide clean up. “Reminder to the public, all these foam cups, plates, bowls and clamshell plates are popular breeding sites for vector...
Three women at Audit & Ethics training
O ni isi o le au faigaluega a le malo sa auai i le aso ananafi i aoaoga sa faia i le Fale Laumei i Utulei. The Audit and Ethics training by the Graduate School USA, was funded with support from the Department of the Interior, in conjunction with the Territorial Audit Office (TAO). The three day...
Tofa Sualauvi H. Su’a (middle) and two ASG participants
Acting Territorial Auditor, Tofa Sualauvi H. Su’a (middle) and two ASG participants at yesterday’s first day of the three-days of training on audit and ethics at the Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium. The training, which runs through Thursday this week is conducted by the Graduate School USA in...
Year of the Rabbit graphic
Knoxville, TENNESSEE — Today, Jan. 22, 2023, more than a billion people globally welcomed the Year of the Rabbit – or the Year of Cat, depending on which cultural traditions they follow – as the start of the Lunar New Year. In the New York City public school district, Lunar New Year has been...
Samoana students on the hillside during tsunami drill
A look at some of the Samoana High School students, who evacuated to high grounds in Utulei Wednesday during the school’s tsunami evacuation drill, which included both students and faculty. [photo: Julie Pau’u]
No Dumping sign
The AS-EPA installed this “No Dumping” sign recently at an illegal dumping area in Afono.  AS-EPA installed identical signs at two other illegal dumping areas in the villages of Futiga and the Pisi site between Fa'ilolo and Se'etaga villages.  “We encourage the general public to stop dumping trash...
Homegroup a le Ekalesia Penetekoso Tuufaatasi i Pago Pago
Vasega i le Aso Gafua o ta’ita’i mo le Homegroup a le Ekalesia Penetekoso Tuufaatasi i Pago Pago UPC. Faafetai faapitoa i le susuga i le faiaoga ma le faletua, Rev. Michael & Sis. Theresa Loscalso o le Ekalesia Pentecostals o Waianae, Hawaii. [ata: Christina Meyer Maele]
Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking
Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA — U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is just the latest conservative lawmaker to misuse the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to judge a person on character and not race. In the protracted battle to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House, Roy, a Republican,...
Some of the Port Administration staff,
Some of the Port Administration staff, posed for a Samoa News photo following the confirmation hearing last Friday in the Senate for Port Administration Department director-nominee Falenaoti Loi-On Fruean. She was later unanimously confirmed by the Senate during the session. Read story in Tuesday's...

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