Stories by Jessica Else

Saluting the military

BARKING SANDS — The pizza party was a hit at Shenanigans on Friday as community members and military personnel gathered at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility for Military Appreciation Day.

Ready for a garden party

HA’ENA — Limahuli Garden’s parking lot has been full of construction vehicles instead of visitor traffic for the past year.

Pancake perfection

All eyes were on Kauai High seniors Angelica Aligado and Romina Castillo in the Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club’s kitchen last Thursday afternoon.

Holo Holo in the hunt

Kauai’s Holo Holo Charters is in the running for national recognition on the 2019 USA Today 10 Best Reader’s Choice list, and it’ll be your votes that’ll help them cinch the title.

Kapahi Bourbon battle

KAPAA — Two shipping containers sit side by side in an empty field just past Kapahi Park on Kawaihau Road. Empty, that is, except for a single palm tree that signifies the planned home for Kauai’s newest distillery.

Balancing access and safety

PRINCEVILLE — Nobody has been cited for trespassing at Queen’s Bath since the fence and gate went up across the trailhead in September 2018.

Prevent the spread

Even before Kauai’s native ohia trees started showing signs of the fungus that causes rapid ohia death, biosantitation was already top of mind for many throughout Hawaii.

Cali to outlaw chlorpyrifos

California followed in Hawaii’s footsteps on Wednesday in moving to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos, used to combat insects on more than 60 different crops in the state.

Living by the ‘Golden Rule’

SAN DIEGO — Kauai sailor Connie Burton made history on Wednesday aboard a 34-foot sailing boat named Golden Rule bound for Hilo.

Kekaha fish kill

KEKAHA — State officials are saying an algae bloom killed hundreds of fish in a drainage canal between Waimea and Kekaha during the first week of May.

Preserving plants and animals

Three little plants cling to the edge of a cliff in Kalalau Valley. They’re the only left of their species, thought to be extinct in 2016, and were discovered in January by scientists with the National Tropical Botanical Garden.

Food, games, family

Ezekiel Tuers made it to the top of the climbing wall for the first time Friday night at the St. Catherine School annual carnival.