Non-native coral found multiple times in the water off Anini Beach
PRINCEVILLE — Back in 2021, Robin Mazor and Tom Woods of Hawai‘i nonprofit organization ‘Reef Guardians,’ were at Anini Beach on a routine snorkel to monitor reef activity and fish population when they discovered something unusual.
Bill moving through Legislature aims to increase densities in urban areas
HILO, Hawai‘i — The state of Hawai‘i’s urban housing density could more than triple under a new zoning proposal sailing through the state Legislature.
Easter egg hunters let loose in Lihu‘e
LIHU‘E — More than 1,000 keiki, their parents and siblings braved the threatening showers on Friday morning to participate in the event labeled “Hawai‘i’s Biggest Easter Egg Hunt” at the Vidinha Stadium soccer fields.
Happy Camper for Saturday, March 30, 2024
Kudos to the King’s Chapel for hosting “Hawai‘i’s Biggest Easter Egg Hunt” on Saturday at the North Vidinha soccer fields! Volunteers said there were 10,000 plastic candy-filled eggs prepared for the more than 1,000 youngsters who preregistered for the event where former Miss Kaua‘i Filipina (that scholarship pageant is right around the corner) Tiffany Sagucio was doing photo duty, saying the youth age group leaders were pretty cool.
KCCC inmate dies following hit-and-run
LIHU‘E — A Kaua‘i Community Correctional Center inmate died from injuries suffered in a hit-and-run that occurred after he escaped from the facility.
ISLAND HISTORY: The harlots of Wailua Homesteads, Kaua‘i
In his book, “Kaua‘i As It Was In the 1940s and 1950s,” Mike Ashman (1921-2018), a radio broadcaster at KTOH radio, Lihu‘e, during 1940 and 1941, and later during 1948 through 1952, wrote a chapter about the harlots he’d heard tell of residing at Wailua Homesteads, Kaua‘i in 1940.
CRITTER: Dangerous man o’ wars washing up on our beaches
While surfing at Makaha on O‘ahu’s South Shore one day, I went through a wave and felt like I had been bit by a huge shark. My entire body was in intense pain but when I surfaced I could not see any wounds and I was really confused as to what was happening.
Obituaries for Saturday, March 30, 2024
• Duane T. Souza • Roy ‘Kawa’ Kiyoshi Kawamura