Preliminary judging showed that a student from Saipan International School has topped the circuit level of a writing contest hosted by the U.S. District Court for the NMI, while a team from Saipan Southern High School topped the video category of the competition. The contest was...

Writers’ workshop on June 15 at JKPL Local author Walt F.J. Goodridge will be leading a writers’ workshop on June 15, 2019, from 9am to 12pm, at the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library’s video teleconference room. Admission is $10 in advance, and $12 at the door ($5 for students with ID)....

The man who allegedly choked his girlfriend over a dispute about betel nut has pleaded guilty. Michael Cabrera Sanchez, 41, pleaded guilty to assault and battery last Tuesday before Superior Court Associate Judge Theresa Kim-Tenorio. Kim-Tenorio held off sentencing Sanchez until...

In honor of CNMI-PH Friendship Month this June, here is the first in a series of sonnets I call “Food for Thought: Acrostic Sonnet Appetizing Poems, or ASAP. They list popular foods from given countries with some light historical, political, geographical, and cultural threads...