Maleah Adams does the limbo at a booth sponsored by Waimea Country School at the 14th Annual Waimea Healthy Keikifest on Saturday. (Anna Pacheco/Special to West Hawaii Today) Eight-year-old Sana Yamakawa plays with a hula hoop at the Waimea Healthy Keikifest on Saturday. (Anna Pacheco/Special to West Hawaii Today) Jonah Chiquita, 17, tries to walk [...]
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Construction to begin this summer on long-awaited harbor expansion project
April 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
After years of delay, a project to improve the eastern portion of Kawaihae Small Boat Harbor is moving forward. The Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District, has issued a letter of permission authorizing the state Department of Land and Natural Resources’s Division of Boating and Outdoor Recreation to begin phase [...]
Hundreds gather for Easter sunrise
April 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Worshipers revel to the music Sunday morning during the 32nd annual Community Sunrise Easter Service as the sun rises over Hualalai. (Brad Ballesteros/Special to West Hawaii Today) Bryan Moorehead, left, and his 14-year-old son, Tyler, who is visiting from Charlotte, N.C., attended the 32nd annual Community Sonrise Easter Service Sunday morning at Old Kona Airport [...]
Mortgage business on Big Isle healthy
April 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Despite reports about the difficulty of obtaining mortgages, some local lenders and brokers say this is not the case on Hawaii Island. They also say the time needed to close a loan is not getting longer and there are more players in the mortgage buying game, many of whom they are coaching through the obstacles [...]
Ka‘u Park
March 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
HILO — The Ka‘u coast and areas on other Hawaii islands would be candidates for an expanded National Park System under a bill announced Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, a Democrat from Hawaii. The bill, Schatz’s first since his nomination to the Senate in December, would require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct [...]
Pro Bowl returning to Hawaii
March 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Associated Press PHOENIX — The Pro Bowl will return to Honolulu next January and again will be played the week before the Super Bowl. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday at the owners meetings that the all-star game he once considered scrapping has been scheduled for Aloha Stadium on Jan. 26. He added that [...]
On a roll: Local Fusion Sushi challenges…
February 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
classic rules with daring and tasty cuisine. Owner Dawn Cabral makes a Chirashi Plate Lunch at the new Sweet Thunder Local Fusion Sushi at 811 Laukapu St. The Chirashi Plate Lunch includes chorizo with tossed salad and rice. Owner Dawn Cabral, right, and her good friend, Patty Bray, run Sweet Thunder Local Fusion Sushi at [...]
Bill seeks to ease doctor shortage
February 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A bill that would lead to more physicians in Hawaii County will be heard in the state Senate Ways and Means Committee today. Senate Bill 664 was passed out of the Senate Health Committee, chaired by Democratic state Sen. Josh Green of Kona, on Feb. 5. The bill would appropriate $2.8 million in Fiscal Year [...]
Celebrity chefs visit Mala’ai Culinary Garden – Waimea Middle School
February 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A group of seventh and eighth grade Waimea Middle School students not only had a chance to meet their culinary heroes, but also to spend the morning harvesting, preparing and cooking a meal with them at their school garden on Jan. 17. The chefs were in town on the clear, crisp, windless Waimea morning for [...]
SIMPLY A-MAZE-ING
October 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Just keep going’ — Corn, pumpkins and inspiration for future farmers BY CATHERINE TARLETON SPECIAL TO NORTH HAWAII NEWS There’s kind of a whirring, whispering breeze inside the corn maze. Tall green cornstalks, their silky-tufted baby ears swaying lightly, make the path both inviting and mysterious. It’s easy to see how author W.P. Kinsella chose [...]
