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Killeen, TEXAS — Construction is back in full swing for the Samoan church on Stan Schlueter Loop in Killeen, TX. Last April, hundreds of colorfully dressed local residents of Samoan ancestry held a groundbreaking ceremony that included a roasted pig and traditional Samoan fiafia.
The Samoan...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is delighted to announce that Michael Sun has been accepted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, one of the nation’s prestigious Service Academies. He is the first acceptance of this year’s group of student nominees from American Samoa.
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South Pacific Academy’s Michael Sun, who has just been accepted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, is pictured here (left) in 2018 at a Scripps Spelling Bee event in Washington, D.C. That year as an 8th grader he won the Samoa News Territorial Spelling Bee and was one of the first place...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Samoan man, who spent just over 10-years in prison, and whose murder conviction was overturned by Hawaii’s highest court, has filed a civil rights lawsuit at the federal court in Honolulu against the Honolulu Police Department (HPD) as well as current and former...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Volunteer museum curator Erika Radewagen and ASCC art professor Reggie Meredith Fitiao have been accepted into the 2022 University of Hawaii-East West Center Pacific Island Museum Institute Program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Clara Reid, acting...
Super Bowl fans at the game yesterday afternoon at the Bowling Alley Sports Bar in Tafuna. In the third quarter (when this photo was sent) the score was L.A. 13, the Bengals 20. The Bengals are the first team in Super Bowl history to score a TD on the first play from scrimmage of a half. Not many...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The well-known and inspiring Scripture Proverbs 31:30 was penned over 2000 years ago, yet its words still ring true today when on Monday, January 31, 2022 at 9:50pm, God’s faithful Handmaiden, His most beautiful servant, a courageous First Lady who inspired thousands to...
All smiles, all packed and ready to go. The travelers from the Jan 27 flight from Honolulu quarantined at Fatu-o-aiga all tested negative in their final COVID test and were released to their waiting families right after lunch on Thursday. Those in quarantine at the Tradewinds Hotel weren’t as...
Washington D.C. — On Thursday Congresswoman Uifaatali Amata Radewagen received an original Siapo mamanu that was made especially for her by local artists Su'a Uilisone Wilson FItiao and Reggie Meredith Fitiao.
They had showcased the siapo in an art exhibition at the Pearce Green Gallery in New York...
Honolulu, HAWAII — For decades, when Hawaii governors, mayors and legislators needed to fill a seat on a powerful board or commission, they called Max Sword.
A longtime Outrigger hotel executive and lobbyist, Sword was a member of the political class’s inner circle and had the resume to prove it....