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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Saturday, August 22, 2020
To celebrate the 104th birthday of the National Parks, entrance fees will be waived for Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park next Tuesday, Aug. 25 and Kīlauea Overlook will be opened to view the caldera and...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Sunday, August 23, 2020
Youth Challenge volunteer mans an aid station along the Kaʻū Coffee Trail Run in 2019, which drew international andlocal competitors like Alfred Ibarra, of Pāhala, right. The event is on pause until...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Monday, August 24, 2020
While the ʻUlua Challenge fishing competition was canceled this summer by S. Tokunaga Store, fishing ismore popular than ever and Tokunaga hosts a popular platform for fishing photos and videos. The...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Tuesday, August 25, 2020
The bitmoji banner for the virtual classroom of fourth-grade teacher Mrs. Pablo at Nāʻālehu Elementary School.Image courtesy of Nāʻālehu ElementaryTHE FIRST WEEK OF NĀʻĀLEHU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Wednesday, August 26, 2020
U.S. Surgeon General Vice Admiral Jerome Adams and Lt. Gov. Josh Green, MD, spoke up today about Hawaiʻigoing red in its positivity rate for COVID-19 as they roll out some 70,000 tests that can be...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Thursday, August 27, 2020
The Case for Climate Action report was released this week and Sen. Brian Schatz urges reading it here.Photo from The Case for Climate Action: Building a Clean Economy for the American PeopleLEARN FROM...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Friday, August 28, 2020
Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority's new leader is John DeFries, sustainability expert from Hawaiʻi Island. He isPresident of Native Sun Business Group and serves on Friends of NELHA and other community boards....
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Saturday, August 29, 2020
Last year, Kaʻū High went from 8-man to 11-man football. Read thoughts and expectations of the team and coaches in The Way We Were Last Year, below.Photo by Tim Wright, Kaʻū 77THE HIGHEST DAILY COUNT...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Sunday, August 30, 2020
The lone submarine leads the fleet of RIMPAC in Hawaiian waters for war games. See story below. Photo from RIMPACFIRST COVID-19 DEATH ON HAWAIʻI ISLAND was reported this morning and another victim is...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Monday, August 31, 2020
Hawaiian Airlines will become a smaller company with fewer employees and flights as it sets out tosurvive the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo from Hawaiian AirlinesHAWAIIAN AIRLINES sent out letters of intent...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Tuesday, September 1, 2020
The National Humpback Whale Marine Sanctuary invites the public to join its meeting in September, virtually. It alsoprovides a film on the sanctuary, showing whales and many species, like the honu...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Wednesday, September 2, 2020
World War II veteran Iwao Yonemitsu, of the famed 442nd Division that fought in Europe, remembers the 75thanniversary of the end of World War II, which ended 75 years ago. Above, he and wife Alice...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Thursday, September 3, 2020
Shut down of county beach parks for two weeks begins Friday, to control COVID-19. Allowed are water activities like surfing, fishing, paddling, and snorkeling. The most popular beach in Kaʻū is...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Friday, September 4, 2020
A baby petrel outside its burrow. On this island, petrels make their nests high on Mauna Loa and will be surveyedwith overflights by Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park next Wednesday. See more below.Photo...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Saturday, September 5, 2020
This year, sitting and gathering on county and state shorelines and beach parks are prohibited to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Last year at KāwāBay, the annual memorial DDD Surf Contest, drew...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Sunday, September 6, 2020
Kaʻū Hawaiian Home Lands Association interacted with families and groups of friends coming to Ka Lae to camp andspend the weekend on the shoreline camping. They say that some went home when told that...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Monday, September 7, 2020
The biggest labor movement in Hawaiʻi's history was connected to the sugar industry, the last plantation onthis island shutting down in Pāhala in 1996, commemorated in a later Plantation Days...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Kaʻaluʻalu fire in 2017 raged from a campsite. Kaʻū Hawaiian Home Lands Association is asking that access to the Ka Lae Coast be limited under COVID-19 rules and during Red Fire alerts. Photo from...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Hawaiʻi Police Officers Brad Waiki and Augustine Akiu Jr. today, welcoming people for COVID-19 testingat the gym that honors the late state legislator Robert N. Herkes, a key supporter of building the...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Thursday, September 10, 2020
Lt. Gov. Josh Green, MD, last weekend on ER duty on Hawaiʻi Island. Photo from Lt. Gov. FacebookLT. GOV. JOSH GREEN, MD SAYS TOURISM COULD OPEN OCT. 1 for those coming to Hawaiʻi with negative COVID-19...
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