Kaʻū News Briefs, Friday, June 14, 2019
Runit Island along the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands is subject of a study approved in the 2020 Houseversion of the National Defense Authorization Act. The concrete dome is a nuclear storage...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Saturday, June 15, 2019
Mokumanamana, Necker Island, is the destination for Edith Kanakaole Foundation and Na Kalai Wakaʻa in thePapahānaumokuākea National Marine Monument. The voyagers plan to meet on the summer solstice,...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Sunday, June 16, 2019
Fathers and father figures are saddling up for the Independence Day Rodeo in Nāʻālehu on Saturday and Sunday,July 8 and 9. They often introduce keiki to the paniolo life at the Kaʻū Roping & Riding...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Monday, June 17, 2019
The Hawaiʻi County Band is a regular at the Volcano July 4 Parade each year. See more on the parade, festival, and craft fair below. Photo by Ron JohnsonMORE FUNDING FOR THE PĀHALA AND NĀʻĀLEHU SEWER...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Tuesday, June 18, 2019
A Hawaiian honeycreeper drinks nectar from ʻōhiʻa lehua. Read story below about efforts to save the endemic trees from two devastating fungi. Photo from Saving ‘Ōhi’a: Hawai‘i's Sacred Tree, which won...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Location of planned Pāhala wastewater treatment plant. Read testimony given to the county council today at the first reading of Bills 75 and 76, to fund the proposed facilities, below. County...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Thursday, June 20, 2019
Hawaiian Telcom dug up and replaced its large underground fuel tank next to the telephone exchange building atMaile and Pikake Streets in Pāhala this week. The tank holds fuel to power a generator to...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Friday, June 21, 2019
A new Hale under construction inside Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park in honor of Kumu Hula Ab Valencia, withassistance from Friends of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park and many others. See story...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Saturday, June 22, 2019
The USS Daniel Inouye was christened today at a shipyard in Maine. Sen. Maize Hirono made the ceremony's principal address,giving the history of Inouye. See story below. Photo from PCU USS Daniel...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Sunday, June 23, 2019
Hikers marvel at the largest of the boulders that destroyed sections of Kīlauea Iki Trail in the fall of 2018. The massive rocks crashed onto the crater floor after earthquakes dislodged them from near...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Monday, June 24, 2019
USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and its Scientist in Charge Tina Neal are in the top four finalists for thePeople's Choice Award for federal service. Voting continues daily through July 8. The photo...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Project Vision Hawaiʻi will roll into the third Mālama Nā Keiki festival at Pāhala Community Center this Saturday, June 29, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Services include near and far vision screening for keiki and...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Wednesday, June 26, 2019
The first ten of 20 Democratic presidential candidates debated tonight. Photo from MSNBC.comNUCLEAR WAR is the top geopolitical threat to the U.S., named by candidate for U.S. President and Kaʻū's...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Thursday, June 27, 2019
Presidential candidates Tim Ryan and Tulsi Gabbard debated over bringing troops home from war.Image from MSNBCTULSI GABBARD, KAʻŪ'S REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, WAS THE NAME MOST OFTEN SEARCHED ONLINE...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Friday, June 28, 2019
Merle Becker of Aikane Plantation in Kaʻū is organizing riders for both the Nāʻālehu Independence Day Paradetomorrow, Saturday, June 29 at 11 a.m. and the Fourth of July Parade in Volcano. Photo by Ron...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Saturday, June 29, 2019
The farming community of Kaʻū is represented by the Nāʻālehu Methodist Church entry to the annual Nāʻālehu Independence Day Parade today. See more below and in upcoming Kaʻū News Briefs.Photo by...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Sunday, June 30, 2019
Most Patriotic float in Saturday's Nā‘ālehu Independence Day Parade went to Thy Word Ministries. See theMost Creative winner below. Photo by Peter Anderson PRENATAL AND KEIKI HEALTH EDUCATION came to...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Monday, July 1, 2019
Nāʻālehu Theatre remains with Weinberg as Kurisu family business buys Nāʻālehu Shopping Center. Photo by Peter AndersonNĀʻĀLEHU SHOPPING CENTER has been purchased from the late Harry and Jeanette...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Mauna Loa, the long mountain and active volcano where most of Kaʻū is located is under an advisory forvolcanic activity issued by the U.S. Geological Survey. Photo by JW Frank/NPSAN ADVISORY ALERT FOR...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs, Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Miss Kaʻū Coffee Helena Nihipali Sesson rode on a coffee truck in the Independence Day Parade in Nāʻālehu last Saturday. On July 4, she joins Kaʻū Coffee princesses at the July 4 parade in Volcano,...
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