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Ka`u News Briefs Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017
Waikapuna, where owner Resource Land Holdings has been cooperating with local conservation groupsand Hawaiian families in their efforts to purchase and preserve the land.Photo by Andrew Richard Hara,...
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Ka'u News Briefs Thursday, August 24, 2017
The Hawaiian monk seal is at home in the Papahanaumokuakea National Marine Monument. It is one of the mostcritically endangered marine mammals in the United States.Photo by James Watt/Papahanaumokuakea...
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Ka'u News Briefs Friday, August 25, 2017
The bridge entrance to Nahuku (Thurston Lava Tube) is one of the most popular, and most photographed, destinations in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. See story below. Photo by Janice Wei, National...
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Ka'ū News Briefs Saturday, August 26, 2017
Lowering a borehole tiltmeter into a ten-foot deep hole on Mauna Loa's Southwest Rift Zone.See Volcano Watch below. Photo from USGSHARVESTING THE EUCALYPTUS TREE FARM ABOVE PAHALA may experience a...
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Ka'ū News Briefs Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017
Creating medical respite clinics, with services to provide housing, mental health care, showers, laundry and otherneeds of the homeless, is a passion of west Ka'ū's state Senator. Photo from Sen. Josh...
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Ka'ū News Briefs Monday, August 28, 2017
Keiki sing "Happy Birthday" while learning proper hand washing techniques demonstrated at Mālama Nā Keiki Festival. Photo by Geneveve FyvieHula Hālau Lei o Nālani entertain attendees. Photo by Alan...
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Ka'ū News Briefs Tuesday, August 29, 2017
View from the Ka'ū Preserve. Photo by John ReplogleTHE KA'Ū COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN will go before the County Council's Planning Committee on Wednesday, Sept. 6, the County Planning Department...
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Ka'ū News Briefs Wednesday, August 30, 2017
The community volunteers each year to help out with the annual Ka'ū Coffee Trail Run, which drawsrunners of all ages from many states, countries and around Hawai'i. The 4th annual event is Sept. 23....
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Ka'ū News Briefs Thursday, August 31, 2017
HELCO'S envisioned future state for technology supporting the electric grid.Image from HELCOTHE GRID MODERNIZATION STRATEGY of the Hawaiian Electric Companies was opened for public comments on...
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Ka'ū News Briefs Friday, September 1, 2017
Example of the Keanakāko'i Tephra sequence exposed on the southeast side of Kīlauea Volcano's summit caldera showing some of the identified units labeled with the revised nomenclature scheme. See story...
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Ka'ū News Briefs Saturday, September 2, 2017
Ta'ape from Tahiti are invasive and have taken over coral reef habitat in most waters of the inhabited Hawaiian Islands,but are absent from much of the marine preserve at Papahānaumokuākea, report...
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Ka'ū News Briefs Sunday, September 3, 2017
Sen. Mazie Hirono, Hawai'i Attorney General Doug Chin and Hawai'i Coalition for Civil Rights last Wednesdaydefending DACA, which Pres. Donald Trump plans to end, according to press reports today. See...
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Ka'ū News Briefs Monday, September 4, 2017
Japanese sugar workers in Ka'ū in the 1890s. See history of labor organizing in story below.Photo from Hawai'i State Archives Digital Collection LABOR DAY DREW THE FOLLOWING TWEETS: Hawai'i's U.S....
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Ka'ū News Briefs Tuesday, September 5, 2017
A Hawai'i County Council Bill 13 seeks to reduce styrofoam use on Hawai'i Island. See stories below. Image from change.org HAWAI'I'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY came out strong today against the Pres. Donald...
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Ka'ū News Briefs Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Waikapuna, a coastal property makai of Nā'ālehu, could be purchased with PONC funds. See story below. Aerial photo by Shalan CrysdaleDEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILD ARRIVALS got the legal backing of the...
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Ka'ū News Briefs Thursday, September 7, 2017
The Ka'ū Community Development Plan can be read and downloaded from hawaiicountycdp.info/kau-cdp. It includes many maps, graphs and images of Ka'ū with history and a community based plan for the...
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Ka'ū News Briefs Friday, September 8, 2017
The Birth of Kahuku, a hike into the geologic history of this Ka'ū unit of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Parkis this Sunday. See story below. Photo by Janice Wei/NPSOVER FIFTEEN BILLION DOLLARS IN FEDERAL...
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Ka'ū News Briefs Saturday, September 9, 2017
A USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory webcam captured spattering on Kīlauea Volcano's summit lava lake onSept. 6. With summit inflation, the lake level rose to 54 feet below the vent rim, and into view...
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Ka'ū News Briefs Sunday, September 10, 2017
Dr. Robert Richmond, Narrissa P. Spies, Cheryl Ka'uhane Lupenui, Lelemia Irvine, Dr. Albert S. Kim. See story below. Photo from The Kohala CenterPONC FUNDING TO HELP PURCHASE WAIKAPUNA, the coastal...
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Ka'ū News Briefs Monday, September 11, 2017
Locally grown breadfruit are sought by the 'Ulu Cooperative. According to a Hawai'i Public Radio storythat calls breadfruit a Tropical Superfood, breadfruit is high in protein and suitablefor feeding...
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