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Research Matters: WERI’s role in safeguarding Guam’s water supply
Pacific Daily News
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When we fill up our 5-gallon water bottles at one of Guam’s many water stores, we rarely stop to think about what makes that water safe. Behind that assurance is the University of Guam’s Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western...
Sailing the Aegean Through Art: Captivating Exhibitions Across the Greek Islands
To Vima
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July 5, 2025
Museums, historical and neoclassical buildings, public schools, a onetime orphanage-turned-prison, a former boys’ boarding school, —spaces with their own layered histories become hosts for works by contemporary artists. Installations, ceramics,...
The only US territory where residents are not granted birthright citizenship
The Mirror US
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June 26, 2025
While American Samoa has been US soil since 1900, it remains the only US territory where residents are not automatically granted citizenship at birth. People in all other four US territories - including Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana...
'Fascinating, fast-paced': A day in court for Ohio ICE detainees
The Cincinnati Enquirer - Ohio
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One of the men arrested outside a Cincinnati Kroger store in May for living in the United States illegally was due for his first court hearing early June 24. He never appeared – but more than a dozen of some 420 other people being held at the...
Guam's baseball team advances to gold medal game at Pacific Mini Games
Pacific Daily News
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Guam’s men’s baseball team is back in the gold medal game at the Pacific Mini Games after handling the Federated States of Micronesia, 10-6, Saturday afternoon in Palau. Guam's medal tally as of Sunday noon was nine, including two gold, three...
Defending champions from NMI ready to compete, connect, and celebrate at 2025 Pacific Mini Games
Island Times
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June 24, 2025
By Eustoria Marie Borja SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — For the athletes of the Northern Mariana Islands, the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Palau represent more than just competition—it’s a chance to defend their hard-earned titles, showcase their...
Community invited to join Marianas maritime mapping workshops in July
Marianas Variety
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Watercraft, Saipan circa 1924. Hornbostel, Bishop Museum photo EAST Carolina University or ECU will hold community workshops in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands from July 8-16 and July 21, 2025, aimed at mapping non-sensitive...
What’s the Incentive for Anyone Good to Run?
Kandit News Group
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July 9, 2025
What a time to be alive! It’s in times like these that both journalistic and political careers are forged. Oh, how I remember reading George Smalley’s dispatch from the Battle of Antietam! Or how eager I was for the latest installment of what...
OPINION ǀ Truth 123: Citizenry, the Bosses!
Marianas Variety
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Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is this is my 123rd message of Truth, not to mention the other hundreds of Op eds & Letters to the editor, yet it still hasn’t sunk-in that “WE the People must CHANGE if the CNMI is to become a BETTER place to live &...
Friends of the Mariana Trench Congratulate U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Local CNMI Leaders on the Ribbon-Cutting of the Mariana Trench Visitor Contact Station
Southern Fried Science
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June 23, 2025
The Friends of the Mariana Trench extend heartfelt congratulations to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and local leaders from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) on the momentous occasion of the ribbon-cutting...
Guam swimmers win 2 more medals at Pacific Mini Games
Pacific Daily News
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Guam swimmers Israel Poppe and Mia Lee got third place at the Pacific Mini Games in Palau on Friday night adding two more medals for the island. As of Saturday afternoon, Guam’s medal count was at eight medals total. Poppe and Lee join fellow...
Mum's prayers help 16yo Fijian weightlifter win 3 gold medals and smash 9 records in Palau
RNZ
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July 4, 2025
Nehemiah Elder won 3 gold medals in the men’s 88kg category. and set nine records on Friday. 4 July 2025. Photo: Facebook / Team Fiji Sixteen-year-old Fijian weightlifter Nehemiah Elder created history in Palau when he set nine new records on his...
Mum's prayers helps 16yo Fijian weightlifter win 3 gold medals and smash 9 records in Palau
RNZ
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July 4, 2025
Nehemiah Elder won 3 gold medals in the men’s 88kg category. and set nine records on Friday. 4 July 2025. Photo: Facebook / Team Fiji Sixteen-year-old Fijian weightlifter Nehemiah Elder created history in Palau when he set nine new records on his...
KALW Almanac - Friday July 4, 2025
KALW - California
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Today is Friday, the 4th of July of 2025, July 4 is the 185th day of the year 180 days remain until the end of the year. 80 days until autumn begins The sun will rise in San Francisco at 5:53:23 am and sunset will be at 8:35:15 pm. We will have 14...
Irish actress hailed as ‘best’ among stellar cast in the ‘movie of the summer’
Irish Star
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June 23, 2025
An Irish actress has been hailed as the breakout star of the blockbuster F1 film. Kerry Condon, who hails from Co Tipperary, joined a stellar cast of Hollywood A-listers like Brad Pitt and Damson Idris. But according to viewers, Condon was the...
Rarely seen endemic Mariana butterflyfish captured on video
Marianas Variety
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Mariana butterflyfish APRA, Guam — Last month, during Ocean Exploration Trust’s exploration of Ahyi Seamount (a shallow submarine volcano in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands), the Corps of Exploration aboard exploration vessel...
JKPL celebrates successful completion of phase 1 of ‘Color Our World’ Summer Reading Program”
Marianas Variety
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(JKPL) — Joeten-Kiyu Public Library proudly announces the successful completion of the first phase of its 2025 “Color Our World” Summer Reading Program, held from June 17 to June 27, 2025. The program welcomed over 90 children during our ages 6–12...
Palau Mini Games: Samoa, Fiji and Northern Marianas break Tahiti's golden streak in the pool
RNZ
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July 3, 2025
Samoa continue to stay in second place with a total haul of 13 gold, four silver and 14 bronze. Photo: Facebook / TeamSamoa Tahiti's dominance in the pool on day four of the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Koror was broken by some golden moments shared...
‘Diplomacy and peace are the way forward—not more bombs:
Island Times
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June 27, 2025
SAIPAN (PACIFIC ISLAND TIMES) —Advocacy groups disrupted the Department of Defence’s public meeting on Wednesday, which tackled the proposed military training plans on Tinian, voicing strong opposition to further militarisation in the Marianas....
Maria Ayuyu receives accounting degree from Bentley University
Marianas Variety
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JOSE and Marcia Ayuyu proudly announce the graduation of their youngest daughter, Maria Pilar Kanako Erra Ayuyu. Maria received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Accounting from Bentley University on May 17, 2025. The private university, located in...