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World Wide Ed Pulpconnection Jerome’s ThoughtsThis morning Mayor Kenoi posted on facebook that he was at “… the West Hawai‘i Civic Center for an announcement about Hawai‘i Community College’s upcoming Pālamanui Campus in Kona.” Well the announcement has been made: Mayor Kenoi, UH Board of Regents Vice Chair James Lee, and UH President M.R.C. Greenwood accepted a check for $9.68 [...]
Filed under: Education, Hawaii, Kids, Kona, UH | Tagged: Hawaii Community College, Mayor Kenoi, Palamanui Campus in Kona, West Hawai | Leave a Comment »
Big Island police have reclassified the investigation of body a found Saturday in the Eden Roc subdivision from a coroner’s inquest to a murder. An autopsy conducted Tuesday morning (January 31) determined that the victim died from a combination of ligature strangulation and a brain injury from a gunshot wound. The victim has been identified [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Community, Hawaii, Legal, Unexplained Phenomenon | Tagged: CrimeStoppers, Eden Roc, Robert John Leong | 1 Comment »
Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor’s Education Department has new student education and tour programs for 2012 and requests volunteers to help deliver these programs, plus develop additional ones, help manage events, process data entry, research, transcribe oral histories, and work on the Museum’s successful outreach program to 6th graders, “Barnstorming.” Other volunteers are need in [...]
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The Navy has just gotten $210 million worth of high speed cats for $35 million. The U.S. Maritime Administration reports that it has now transferred the former Hawaii super ferries Huakai and Alakai to the U.S. Navy and that the Navy provided $35 million to the Maritime Administration for both vessels. Back in October 2005 [...]
Filed under: aloha, Announcements, Environment, Hawaii, Legal, Military, Transportation | Tagged: Alakai, Austal USA, Hawaii Superferry, Huakai, United States Maritime Administration, US Navy | 1 Comment »
GHM, a luxury resort and hotel group that manages exclusive properties anchored in Southeast Asia, is launching its third decade with plans for new boutique properties in locales well beyond its traditional geographic base. Over the next four years, as the new hotels come online in China and Switzerland, in India and the United Arab Emirates, GHM expects [...]
Filed under: Blogs | Tagged: Adrian Zecha, GHM Luxury Resort, Hans Jenni, Hawaii, Kona | 1 Comment »
Big Island Resident Agyai Marshall submitted this video in the “Home Depot search for a star” contest: Marshall wrote: A song I wrote for the 2012 Home Depot Search for A Star Competition, top 4 winners get an all expenses paid trip to perform at the annual managers meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. I work [...]
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Ala Moana Hotel has caught football fever, sacking room rates so visitors can score a super deal. In celebration of Super Bowl XLVI, Ala Moana Hotel will offer 46 ocean-view room nights every day for 46 days, at a special rate equal to the final combined score of the big game. As the New England [...]
Filed under: aloha, Announcements, Entertainment, Hawaii, Oahu, Sports, Tourism | Tagged: Ala Moana Hotel, New England Patriots, New York Giants, Super Bowl XLVI | 1 Comment »
“Living Endemic Birds of Hawai‘i” by famed Hawaiian wildlife artist Marian Berger is back on exhibit, for one week only, from February 21- February 27, 2012 at Volcano Art Center Gallery in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. The exhibit is back on display by popular demand. The exhibit features reproductive prints of the original watercolor paintings [...]
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After 13 years of negotiations, Japan has approved its first shipment of genetically-modified Rainbow papayas from Hawaii. “The fact that the Japanese have tested it to the nth degree and evaluated its food and environmental safety proves it’s a good product,” said Rod Yonemura, consultant to the 160-member Hawaii Papaya Industry Association based in Hilo, [...]
Filed under: Agriculture, Announcements, Big Island, Environment, Food & Drink, GMO, Hawaii, Health, Technology | Tagged: GMO, Japan, Rainbow Papayas | 1 Comment »
Big Island police are investigating a body found in Puna as a coroner’s inquest. Shortly after 6:52 am, Saturday (January 28), police received a report of a body found near a residence in the Eden Roc Subdivision. The unidentified man appeared to be in his 50s. Detectives from the Area I Criminal Investigations Section are [...]
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Big Island police are searching for a 17-year-old girl reported as missing from Puna since December 20. Tihany Glimane is described as 5-foot-6, about 135 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Police ask that anyone with information on her whereabouts call the Police Department’s non-emergency line at 935-3311. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous [...]
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Horizon Lines, Inc. announced that its Horizon Lines, LLC operating subsidiary has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, under which the ocean cargo carrier will plead guilty to two counts of providing federal authorities with false vessel oil record-keeping entries on a containership in the U.S. West Coast-Hawaii service. Under the [...]
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Hawai‘i’s favorite pupu gets its due at the first Sam Choy’s Keauhou Poke Contest Sunday, Mar. 18 at the Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort and Spa. The inaugural culinary competition offers over $10,000 in cash and prizes and is open to both amateur and professional chefs.Poke (po-KEH) is the Hawaiian word for “slice.” The local-style pupu [...]
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Center for Study of Active Volcanoes Hawaii Presents Onizuka Day 2012 Explosions Liquid nitrogen is used in explosive demonstrations by the University of Hawaii at Hilo Geology Department, to illustrate the nature of erupting volcanoes. No rugged plastic garbage cans were harmed in this experiment. Watch for the trajectory of a high-flying plastic bottle at [...]
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A nation remembers and mourns the 26th anniversary of the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew today. On January 28, 1986 at 11:38 am, the Challenger broke apart and its crew was lost to the heavens when an O-ring on its right SRB rocket booster broke, leading to a fuel tank rupture [...]
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Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and fuel cell products, today announced that the has been awarded orders by Torrance, California based US Hybrid Corporation, for the delivery of five new generation HyPM™HD Series Fuel Cell Power Modules. US Hybrid specializes in the design and manufacture of power conversion systems for [...]
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I appreciate the offer of having politicians asking to place ads on my site. I myself would rather feel free to be able to blog about politicians the way I want w/out having to worry about them pulling an ad from my site. With that being said… I will once again say that I will [...]
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Two adventurous programs offered by Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will introduce a captivating landscape, biodiversity and history of the park’s southernmost section to intrepid hikers. People and Land of Kahuku is a two-mile, three-hour expedition through pastures, a quarry, an airstrip and the 1868 lava fields of Kahuku. Rangers will explain how people lived on [...]
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Honolulu Mayor Candidate Kirk Caldwell to Release Campaign Finance Report Tomorrow
Tomorrow we will file our campaign finance report for July 1 – December 31, 2011. We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised over $72,000 in the last six weeks of this reporting cycle. We believe that this amount represents just the beginning of this campaign. This shows the confidence supporters have in Kirk Caldwell and the [...]
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