Ka`u News Briefs Friday, August 2, 2013
South Point is in the Ka`u Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan. Photo by Peter AndersonKA`U SCENIC BYWAY received support form both state senators this week. Josh Green, representing West Ka`u, wrote...
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Ka`u High School had enough players to field a team last year, but not enough for the upcoming season.Photo from Ka`u High School KA`U HIGH’S FALL FOOTBALL SEASON IS CANCELLED. Players held their final...
View ArticleKa`u News Briefs Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013
Candace Keohuloa, of Pahala, was the Big Island 2013 Children's Summer Reading Program grand-prize winner. Manager Debbie Wong Yuen presented her with a backpack filled with school supplies.PAHALA...
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Sen. Mazie Hirono has added Kahuku Coastal Property, which includes Road to the Sea, to Ka`u Coast areas to bestudied for possible inclusion in the National Park system. Photo courtesy of Megan...
View ArticleKa`u News Briefs Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013
Dolly Ceaser has kept the crosswalk safe for students for years near the entrance to Ka`u High & Pahala ElementarySchool campus. Photo by Julia NealTHE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL IN PAHALA brought...
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Ka`u Community Development Plan Steering Committee meets Tuesday to discuss new, recently released materialincluding a Community Building Analysis.A MEASURE THAT WOULD HAVE BANNED NEW GMOS on Hawai`i...
View ArticleKa`u News Briefs Thursday Aug. 8, 2013
Ka`u Boys & Girls Club members joined team building with adults from many mainland cultures at the Fairmont Orchid this week. Above, nine-year old Poha Kaluna competes in a bowling game. Photo by...
View ArticleKa`u News Briefs Friday August 9, 2013
Eight-man football is coming to Ka`u High School. The fast-paced higher scoring game has fewer defensive players. It is popular in such rural, small-school states as Oklahoma where this photo was...
View ArticleKa`u News Briefs Saturday, August 10, 2013
Ka`u High School is initiating eight-man football and hopes other Hawai`i Island schools follow.MOLOKA`I ON OCT. 5 is the destination for Ka`u High School’s 18 players who are signing up to help launch...
View ArticleKa`u News Briefs Sunday, August 11, 2013
By 8 a.m., more than 430 people had reported online to the USGS feeling the earthquake from such faraway places as Hana on Maui and Makawao on O`ahu. The most reports came from Kona, Hilo, Kamuela,...
View ArticleKa`u News Briefs Monday, August 12, 2013
Ka`ohe Bay, also known as Pebble Beach, is expected to become a Fish Replenishment Area with Gov. NeilAbercrombie's signature as early as this week. Photo by Julia NealTHE NEW SCUBA SPEARFISHING BAN...
View ArticleKa`u News Briefs Tuesday, August 13, 2013
HI-SEAS crewmember Oleg Abramov explores Mauna Loa in a mock space suit, simulating what astronauts wouldexperience on Mars. Photo by Angelo VermeulenWATER FROM THE OLD PLANTATION SPRING was the...
View ArticleKa`u News Briefs Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Moloka`i High Farmers eight-man football players invite the Trojans to come to their island for a game Oct. 5. Photo from Moloka`i HighEIGHT MAN FOOTBALL IS A GO, as Ka`u High School becomes the...
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An All-State Eight-Man Football Championship Game on the Mainland. Ka`u is the trend-setter, launching eight-man for the Big Island.Photo from www.magicvalley.comEIGHT-MAN FOOTBALL scheduling is being...
View ArticleKa`u News Briefs Friday, August 16, 2013
Hawai`i County opposes the proposed contract between `Aina Koa Pono and the electric companies, calling for anevidentiary hearing unless the Public Utilities Commission agrees and denies the...
View ArticleKa`u News Briefs August 17, 2013
Miss Ka`u Coffee Tiare-Lee Shibuya gets ready to say "go" for the Volcano Rain Forest Runs this morning inVolcano Village. Photo by Julia NealTHE FOURTH ANNUAL VOLCANO RAIN FOREST RUNS saw a record 719...
View ArticleKa`u News Briefs Sunday, August 18, 2013
Hawai`i National Guard Youth Challenge Academy volunteered to help with Volcano Rain Forest Runs this weekend.The National Guard also sponsored a free concert Friday afternoon and evening at Punalu`u...
View ArticleKa`u News Briefs Monday, August 19, 2013
The Mizuno girls are Ka`u High alumni, Sally Mizuno Yamaguchi from the Class of '43 and Jane Mizuno Uedafrom the Class of '45. Photo by Julia NealHUNDREDS OF KA`U HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI converged on Pahala...
View ArticleKa`u News Briefs Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Face painting was one of the activities at Ocean View Ho`olaule`a Saturday. Photo from Ocean View EvangelicalCommunity ChurchKA`U SCHOOLS SCORED HIGHER than over 100 other state schools in Hawai`i...
View ArticleKa`u News Briefs, Wednesday, Aug. 21. 2013
Ka`u High Girls Volleyballtea won the BIIF championship last year and hopes to do the same in 2013, with first game on Aug. 27Photo form Ka`u High SchoolKA`U HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS VOLLEYBALL is getting a...
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