Kaʻū News Briefs, Monday, November 26, 2018
Practitioners of Okinawan Taiko drumming came to Punaluʻu on Saturday for the Floating Lantern Celebration andlent their bachi - drumsticks - to keiki. See more, below. Photo from Kaʻū Rural Health...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Humpback whales visiting Hawaiʻi in the winter and spring months may be declining in number. A mother humpback supports her calf in the warm waters of Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Santa and his helpers, Mrs. Clause Judy Andrade (left) helper Mary Jane Balio. The annual parade through Pāhala starts at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 9. Marchers, riders, drivers of classic vehicles line...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Thursday, November 29, 2018
Polypropelene is banned from county recycling bins but acceptable at all transfer stations in the general garbage disposal.Also banned from recycling but not general trash are plastic grocery bags, and...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Friday, November 30, 2018
Hurricane Lane raged through Paʻaʻau Gulch, as seen from the bridge on Hwy 11 near Pāhala on Aug. 24.Six hurricanes came through the Central Pacific during the 2018 hurricane season that ended...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Saturday, December 1, 2018
Christmas in Kahuku, a free event for the whole ʻohana, happens Sunday, Dec. 16, from 11 a.m.to 3 p.m., at Kahuku Unit of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. The event features live music and dancing,...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Sunday, December 2, 2018
Kīlauea Military Camp's Holiday Challenge is open for public strolling and viewing through Monday, Dec. 31. The event features the row of cottages along the front of the camp decorated in with...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Monday, December 3, 2018
Lt. Gov Josh Green, who started out in Hawaiʻi as a young physician at Kaʻū Hospital, took the oath ofLt. Governor of Hawaiʻi today after serving 14 years in the Hawaiʻi Legislature and 18 years as a...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Mayor Harry Kim thanked the County Council during inauguration ceremonies yesterday. Photo by Nicole NashCOUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER MAILE DAVID took the oath of office on Monday for the third time to...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Wednesday, December 5, 2018
The eruption at Mauna Ulu Crater, along Chain of Craters Road, stopped for three months and resumed its activities, HVO warns, while announcing today as the "official" end to this years Fissure 8...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Thursday, December 6, 2018
Habitat for Humanity Hawaiʻi Island is reaching out for help to increase home ownership on this island.See more below. Photo from Habitat for HumanityREEF FISH FOUND IN PAPAHĀNAUMOKUĀKEA MARINE...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Friday, December 7, 2018
An adult nēnē flaps its wings in the rain at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, as a second nēnē is obscured by the lava rock. Read about closure of part of the Park to protect the endemic birds. See...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Saturday, December 8, 2018
Phoebe Gomes played music and sang in last year's Pāhala Christmas parade, in honor of her latehusband Bobby Gomes. This year's parade is tomorrow at 1 p.m. Photo by Julia NealJOHN REPLOGLE, KAʻŪ'S...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Sunday, December 9, 2018
Santa, who has organized Pāhala Christmas Parade with the Eddie Andrade family for 40 years, looks on at thecharacters surrounding one of the sponsors, Ed Olson, who owns Kaʻū Coffee Mill. Photos by...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Monday, December 10, 2018
Donna Gascon drapes herself in Kaʻū Coffee beans, in the height of their season, in Sunday's PāhalaChristmas Parade, with Kaʻū Coffee Growers Cooperative President Gloria Campa to her left.See more...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Nainoa Thompson is one keynote speaker at the Western Governor's Conference on this island, where the first Polynesian Voyagers are believed to have landed, discovering Hawaiʻi at Punaluʻu or South...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Linda Morgan, librarian, offers to the public an opportunity to Give the Gift of Reading! at Nāʻālehu ElementarySchool Library through this Friday. See story, below. Photo by Nalani ParlinEARTHQUAKE...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Thursday, December 13, 2018
The HI-SEAS facility, now set up to simulate short-term lunar missions rather than long-term Mars missions. See story, below. Photo from UHTHE PUBLIC CAN SPEAK ON KAʻŪ HOSPITAL & RURAL HEALTH...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Friday, December 14, 2018
Dr. Josh Green is the man behind Gov. David Ige's ʻOhana Zone homeless plan.See the video of today's press conference.HELP FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE, promoted by Dr. Josh Green who recently transferred from...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Saturday, December 15, 2018
Keiki perform at the Hawaiian Winter Concert at Kaʻū Historic Gym last night. Festive costumes and live musicbrightened up the night. See story and pictures, below. Photo by Julia NealAN ELECTRIC...
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