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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Friday, September 11, 2020
The Luminarium with a light for Hawaiʻi residents, Outdoor Circle arborist Christine Snyder and antiques dealerGeorgina Corrigan, who both died on 9/11 when Flight 93 was hijacked and went down in...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Saturday, September 12, 2020
Nā‘ālehu Hongwanji held its first Bon Dance in many years, last year, with moving around the yagura, drumming, chanting, and a lantern parade. See more, below, in The Way We Were. Photo by Julia...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Sunday, September 13, 2020
A mature ʻAlalā in the wild. Read below, in The Way We Were, about last year's efforts to reintroduce the endangered, endemic crow to the wild. Photo from San Diego Zoo GlobalBELOW NORMAL RAINFALL...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Monday, September 14, 2020
Waikapuna is one of the Kaʻū Coastal properties supported by the 2% Land Fund, which is the subject of two Hawaiʻi County Charter Amendments in the General Election. See more below. Hawaiʻi County...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Socially distant, Guardians of the Trails will work through November to maintain trailsin Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park through Friends of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, thanks to a grantfrom...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Explosive lava eruption in Leilani Estates during the 2018 Kīlaueaeruption. See below for distribution of recovery grants for lower Puna. Photo by Andrew Richard HaraKAʻŪ RESIDENTS IN YUKIO OKUTSU...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Thursday, September 17, 2020
Raymond Fujikawa (center), 86, from Kaʻū, shows his support to the veterans at Hilo's Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home today, Sept. 17, the day he suffered an injury in 1951, during the Korean War. His...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Friday, September 18, 2020
Ken Wright, a Kaʻū High graduate in 1982, found Kaʻū during a business trip to Tennessee. He stopped at a Starbucks, to discover its Hawaiʻi Kaʻū, Starbucks Reserve, See story on the Specialty Coffee...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Saturday, September 19, 2020
2019 Youth Rangers celebrated a decade of the Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park program inpartnership with Friends of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park and more sponsors.Below, see The Way We Were...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Sunday, September 20, 2020
A range fire near Kaʻalualu and Kalae shut down South Point Road, threatening livestock, structures, grazing lands, and burning more than 3,500 acres. Photo by Amy JamesA LARGE RANGE FIRE broke out...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Monday, September 21, 2020
Horses set free to escape the range fire at Kaʻaluʻalu are in the foreground. See an update, below. Photo from HFDMAYOR HARRY KIM ASKED GOV. DAVID IGE TO REPLACE THE MANAGING COMPANY OF THE HILO...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Hilo's Yukio Okustu State Veterans Home is under close scrutiny after 27 resident deaths from COVID-19. See story below. Photo from Big Island Video NewsTENS OF THOUSANDS OF STATE WORKERS COULD BE...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Hawaiian Petrel, ʻUaʻu, nest on Mauna Loa. Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park will monitor them Saturday, Sept. 29. See details, below. Photo from Kauaʻi Endangered Seabird Recovery ProjectCONTROLLING THE...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Thursday, September 24, 2020
Invasive pampa grass has been eradicated from Hawaiʻi Island. Learn more, below. Big Island Invasive Species Committee photoUNPLUGGING THE INTERNET KILL SWITCH is a goal of Hawaiʻi Rep. Tulsi Gabbard...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Friday, September 25, 2020
Beaches will reopen Oct.1, if the community can get its ducks in a row to manage COVID-19. At Punaluʻu Black Sand Beach, three ducks watched a woman read, before the pandemic rules were...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Saturday, September 26, 2020
Manu Yahna, this time last year, returned to Kaʻū from an international beekeeping festival. The Swarm Season film, featuring her as a young beekeeper, was making the film festival rounds in Europe and...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Sunday, September 27, 2020
On OKK's 2019 Kaʻū Coffee Trail Run, through the orchards at Kaʻū Coffee Mill. Take a look back at last year's race in The Way We Were, below. Photo by Julia Neal APPROVALS OF COVID-19 TESTS TO EXEMPT...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Monday, September 29, 2020
Kahuku Unit of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park expands its open days starting Thrusday. See details, below. NPS photoWHETHER TO END THE 14-DAY QUARANTINE for traveling to Neighbor Islands is the big...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Veterans of Foreign Wars delivered American Flags on Monday to Yukio Okutsu Veterans Home to honor those who lost their lives in the fight against COVID-19. See more below in storyabout Stacyn Lopes...
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Ka‘ū News Briefs, Wednesday, September 30, 2020
County and state-owned beach and shoreline areas like this one on the Kaʻū Coast reopen Oct.1 with no camping. Gatherings are allowed for no more than ten people in each group. Face masks are required....
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