Tiana Cabrera, a senior at Saipan International School, was selected by the Quesbridge Program to receive a full scholarship to attend Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
JESUS “Jesse” Sablan, a 17-year-old Saipan International School senior, is going to an Ivy League institution, Columbia University, to pursue a bachelor s degree in biochemical engineering.
The April 17 closure of Saipan’s lone bookstore, Bestseller Saipan, was greeted with sadness by the local community, who also reminisced about the local brick and mortar bookstore that originally opened in Joeten Susupe in 1994 before moving to Middle Road next to McDonald’s Chalan Kiya.
Attention around shootings and killings by security guards has grown in recent months, following two killings in Baltimore last year, both of which led to criminal charges against the guards.
After three tries, the 18th CNMI State Board of Education finally came to a quorum in their regular board meeting yesterday morning and unanimously voted then BOE vice-chair Antonio L. Borja as its chairman.