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This year’s candidates are Joni Francesca Cruz Castro, 15, 9th grader of Saipan Southern  High School; Nizelynn Teregeyo Masayos, 17, junior of Kagman High School; and Mariah Dina Indalecio Ada, 11th grader of Saipan Southern High School. Liberation Queen committee chairwoman Vinycia Seman said the…

Driving by this abandoned two-story building at the North Field will give you the creeps, as though you can expect to see someone peering from one of those windows anytime but venturing inside is another story. The sun was fast making its way down the horizon when I and two friends from Tinian step…

Last Sunday, “Pistang Pinoy” at the Civic Center in Susupe drew many people from various ethnicities. Supporters of the event included the business community and  the CNMI government. “I firmly encourage all of our officers and leaders of member organizations to put our organizations back to work a…

“I’ve been in the military for almost three years now as a weather forecaster,” she said. “My job is to forecast and observe the weather.” Manacop is devoted to her work because she knows that one of the most important information an aviator would like to know before taking off is the weather. With…

A short drive to the far right end of Smiling Cove Marina one afternoon some days back gave me another spot to write about and share to people who are thinking that there’s nothing interesting on island anymore. The tide was out when I and my roommate ventured into the dried out sea bed. I had been…

It is a huge boulevard with an entrance made of cement but designed to look like natural logs and intricate woodwork. The gate leads straight to a long arch bridge connecting to a smaller island, a small park complete with a pool and spiraling water slides, picnic tables and benches and other ameni…

Recently, cooperative education students of Marianas High School visited the center. Tyce Mister, teacher/coordinator of the MHS education and training program, said the students performed song and dances for and with the manamko’. “Part of the presentation related to the book ‘7 Habits of Highly E…

There’s nothing really spectacular about this place. I’ve been there countless times and taken hundreds of photos in the past three years, except that when we arrived there, I looked at the place with new eyes. The tide was out, and the lagoon was almost dried out. My roommate immediately headed fo…

“The event, attended by mostly local residents, was very successful,” Vinycia Seman, the event’s education and outreach committee chair, said yesterday. About 110 registered during the one-day event held at the municipal building. It was the first health community forum on diabetes held on Rota, Se…

Standing on a huge rock with my camera, I would have given anything for a dip instead of just a short stop at this place which I had already seen in hundreds of spectacular photographs and glowing remarks from different blogs and websites of visitors who had been there. Surrounded by natural rock f…