Ka‘ū News Briefs, Sunday, March 28, 2021
Brother and sister Loa'a and Lehia work on an arts and crafts star project, after learning about Hoʻohokukalani, the mother of Hāloa, while group members Lawaiʻa Kaupu, Chaycen Kekoa-Jara and Lokahi...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Monday, March 29, 2021
A Homemade Garlic Aioli is a product created by Ka'ū High School entrepreneurs, purchased by Pāhala Food Hub and delivered side by side with locally grown produce and Bee Boys Honey. As the school...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Kiolakaʻa rises from Kaʻaluʻalu Bay toward Waiʻohinu and is up for state funding to protect it.See a description and its history at http://www.alakahakaitrail.org/kiolokaa-kaalualu.Photo from Ala...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Nature Bay is a winning art from Guam at a recent Western Governor's Foundation contest. Kaʻū students can sign up now for this year's art competition. See more below. Photo from Western Governors...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Thursday, April 1, 2021
Farming cooperative President John Ah San explains the plight of coffee farmers with threats of coffee leaf rust and landinsecurity in his Kaʻū Coffee field today. Below, Kahele checks out a road to...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Friday, April 2, 2021
Grew up here, going to Maui? The ʻAlalā Project is considering releasing native crows raised in captivityinto the forests of Maui, where there are no Hawaiian hawks that kill them. Photo from ʻAlalā...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Saturday, April 3, 2021
Today's mass vaccination on Hawai`i Island invited youth as young as 16 to take a vaccinationfor COVID-19. It was held at Ka`u Hospital's sister facility, Hilo Medical Center. Photo from Hilo Medical...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Sunday, April 4, 2021
Jennifer Grace, of Pahala, and Eva Liu, of Punaluʻu and San Francisco, show off the steamed Chinese dumplings with their friend, as a mahalo gift to Halau Hula O Leonalani Photo by Julia NealA...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Monday, April 5, 2021
An aerial photo in 1941 shows the trail traverses across a loko iʻa wall at the mouth of Kaʻaluʻalu Bay. A public zoom meeting on conservation of Kiloka`a land and Kaʻaluʻalu Bay will be held next...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Resource Land Holdings representatives met with Ka`u Coffee farmers today regarding pricing and financing of land being subdivided under the coffee lands at Moa`ula and Pear Tree. Leading the meetingby...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Wednesday, April 7, 2021
The historic Hawaiian Macadamia Nut Services building in Pāhala will become a mass clinicfor the J&J vaccination on Thursday, March 15. The building is shown here, when its iconicwheel was first...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Thursday, April 8, 2021
Pāhala Shopping Center retains a 2002 addition of a retro overhang designed by Dutch architect Robert Michelson. This week,ownership of the building and property transferred from 300 Corp. to Edmund C....
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Friday, April 9, 2021
Dependence on tourism and other dominant industries in the past has made Hawai‘i's economyvery vulnerable to outside events, shock and scarring, says a UHERO opinion brief today.LOCATION, LOCATION,...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Saturday, April 10, 2021
A green sea turtle looks out toward Punalu‘u Black Sand Beach and boat ramp, a popular destination of visitors who support Hawai‘i's extreme dependence and concentration on tourism. Photo by Julia...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Sunday, April 11, 2021
Hawai'i's concentration on one industry like tourism is studied in a brief from Universityof Hawai'i Economic Research Organization. See more below. Photo by Julia Neal A MEETING ON KIOLAKA’A will be...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Monday, April 12, 2021
Kaʻū Coffee growers take a survey today on their ability and desire to buy the land under their famous farms. Photo by Julia NealKAʻŪ COFFEE FARMERS MET TODAY TO HELP EACH OTHER buy the land under...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Nani Nā Nēnē, the children's book about the endangered Hawaiian state bird, the Nēnē goose, will lead the way this weekend along a trail to celebrate National Parks Week at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes. Story...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Piles of eucalyptus logs are stationed along ranch and farm roads around Pāhala, awaiting the opening of a biofuel plant north of Hlo. The case concerning burning biofuel to sell power to Hawaiian...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Thursday, April 15, 2021
Hawaiian Macadamia Nut Services opened its doors to the public today with free COVID vaccinations.Photo by Julia NealTODAY MARKED MORE THAN A MILLION COVID VACCINATIONS administered throughout the the...
View ArticleKa‘ū News Briefs, Friday, April 16, 2021
Artist and author Caren Loebel-Fried, of Volcano, counted, studied and photographed albatross for two months on Midway Atoll. See the invitation to her virtual presentation below. Photo by Caren...
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