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Guam swimmers Mia Lee, Demi Hurchanik win gold at Junior Olympics; 71 medals for Amphibious Aquatics
Pacific Daily News
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Guam swimmers Mia Lee, 17, and Demi Hurchanik, 12, won gold at the 2025 Amateur Athletic Union Junior Olympics in Texas from July 22 to 27. Overall, Mia Lee, Hurchanik and the rest of the Amphibious Aquatics Guam made a record-breaking splash with...
Guam in Saudi Arabia for FIBA Asia Cup
Pacific Daily News
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If Tony Thompson were alive, he’d be very proud of Guam basketball. Before the former men’s national team coach passed away suddenly in 2018, he laid the foundation for current head coach EJ Calvo to take Guam to another level. Two Pacific Games...
First hull of Matson's new containership trio begins taking shape
WorkBoat
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August 5, 2025 Hanwha Philly Shipyard Inc. and Matson Inc. marked a milestone in the construction of the first of three new Aloha-class containerships with a keel-laying ceremony at the shipyard. Hanwha Philly Shipyard Inc. and Matson Inc. marked...
Guam Customs and Quarantine Agency's 16th cycle begins with 11 trainees
Pacific Daily News
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The Guam Customs and Quarantine Agency on Wednesday said its newest trainees have begun their journey toward becoming sworn law enforcement officers responsible for stopping threats at local borders and ports of entry. The 11 members of the...
US plans to increase air, missile defense capacity by 30% in eight years — media
TASS
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August 6, 2025
NEW YORK, August 6. /TASS/. The US Army plans to grow its air and missile defense force by 30% over the next eight years, the Defense News website reports, citing Lieutenant General Sean Gainey, head of the United States Army Space and Missile...
Sports News | Ahmedabad to Host AFC U17 Asian Cup 2026 Qualifiers in November
Latestly
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August 6, 2025
Mumbai, August 6: India will be one of the seven hosts of the AFC U17 Asian Cup Saudi Arabia 2026 Qualifiers, scheduled to be played from November 22 to 30, 2025. All matches in India will be held at The Arena in Ahmedabad. The official draw for...
Filamore Palomo Alcon and his canvas called Guam
The Pacific Island Times
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August 5, 2025
Filamore Palomo Alcon knew the power of beginnings. Born on Jan. 13, 1952, Fil grew up in Piti. He joined the U.S. Air Force in 1970 and left the service nine years later and joined the University of Guam’s Fine Arts program. Along with fellow...
Criminal justice high school program targets Guam's future police force
Marianas Business Journal
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BY PAULY SUBA Journal Staff Guam Police Department and the Guam Department of Education officially launched a new criminal justice pilot program at Tiyan High School aimed at preparing students for careers in law enforcement. It's an initiative...
Hanwha Philly Shipyard Kicks Off Hull Assembly for First of Three New Matson Containerships
gCaptain
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August 5, 2025
Hanwha Philly Shipyard, Inc. (HPSI) and Matson marked a significant milestone in American shipbuilding yesterday with the dock-mounting ceremony for the first of three new Aloha Class containerships. During the ceremony on Monday, the first engine...
Guam swimmers set personal best times in Singapore
The Guam Daily Post
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After a tremendously successful showing at last month’s Pacific Mini Games in Koror, Palau, Amaya Bollinger and Israel Poppe carried their stellar performances into the 2025 World Aquatics Swimming Championships in Singapore. The two Mini Games...
SABLAN ENDS COLLEGE CAREER, MAY CONTINUE WITH TEAM GUAM
GSPN
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August 5, 2025
By Patrick Lujan After a silver medal performance in Palau’s Pacific Mini Games a month ago, Guam women’s softball 1st baseman Giana Sablan is heading toward a new course in life. Sablan started playing tee ball since she was 8 years old, helped...
Keeping Guam connected, now and into the future
The Guam Daily Post
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As our island works to rebuild its tourism industry, the Guam Visitors Bureau’s proposed legislative appropriation of $11 million in additional airline incentives should be seen not as some perfunctory cash advance, but as a strategic investment...
1st month of ocean buoy data revealing dramatic wave differences across Guam
The Guam Daily Post
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One month after Guam's first community-informed backyard buoy began transmitting real-time ocean data from the island's southwestern coast, the bright yellow device has already proven its worth to boaters, fishers, and emergency responders while...
OPINION Kasperbauer: Revitalizing Guam tourism by promoting 'independent traveler' as key market
Pacific Daily News
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Growing up on Guam in the 1970s and ‘80s, as tourism was taking root, my family’s favorite pastime activities included adventuring through the jungles of Urunao, swimming at the USO in Piti, and barbecuing with relatives and friends. We knew that...
LETTER: Guam deserves a future beyond the uniform
Pacific Daily News
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The truth is hard to ignore: Guam’s value to the United States and its allies lies mainly in our geography. We are “the tip of the spear” in the Pacific, a frontline asset in growing regional tensions. And because of that, our role as a military...
PDC Wholesale donates $3,500 to Guam Animals in Need
Pacific Daily News
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PDC Wholesale donated a check for $3,500 to support nonprofit Guam Animals in Need's mission to provide essential services for Guam animals in need. The donation will directly fund much-needed supplies, pet food, and vaccinations at GAIN,...
Naval Base Guam wraps up Exercise Citadel Pacific 2025
Pacific Daily News
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Exercise Citadel Pacific 2025, an annual exercise to enhance the training, readiness and capability of Navy security forces to respond to threats to Navy installations and units, wrapped up on Aug. 1. U.S. Naval Base Guam, along with other Navy...
IP&E: New, improved fuel formulations at Shell gas stations on Guam
Pacific Daily News
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IP&E, the regional licensee for Shell, said it has enhanced its Shell fuel offering on Guam with two new formulations of its premium and maingrade unleaded fuel products. It is an enhanced formulation of the previous Shell V-Power premium fuel...
PHOTOS: Remembering the victims of 1997 KAL crash on Guam
Pacific Daily News
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Ina Lee, sister to Kwi Cho, who was one of 229 who perished in the Aug. 6, 1997 crash of Korean Air Flight #801 on Guam, speaks to the crowd during an Aug. 6, 2025 memorial ceremony at the crash site near Nimitz Hill. Family members of the crash...
Thousands turn out for Guam’s first Tumon Night Market
Stars and Stripes - Washington D.C
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Many Guam residents and visitors arrived early to shop the Tumon Night Market at Pleasure Island. (Photo by Guam Visitors Bureau) (Tumon, Guam) - The Guam Visitors Bureau’s Tumon Night Market (TNM) yielded a high turnout at its opening night on...