Hawaiian Telcom to complete Kaua‘i fiber expansion by year’s end
LIHU‘E — Hawaiian Telcom on Thursday, Aug. 22, announced that it will complete its fiber infrastructure expansion on Kaua‘i at the end of this year.
Rob donates and gets a guitar
LIHU‘E — Rob Silverman of Rob’s Good Times Grill donated $15,000 to the Cedarhurst Center for the Arts in Mount Vernon, Illinois, on Wednesday.
Kapa‘a Bypass rehabilitation work begins
LIHU‘E — The weekday closure of the Kapa‘a Bypass Road for rehabilitation started this week.
Cesspool conversion grant applications period opens Aug. 28
LIHU‘E — The County of Kaua‘i’s Housing Agency announced the application period for the Residential Cesspool Conversion Grant Program will open on Aug. 28 at 7:45 a.m. The grant application program is scheduled to close on Sept. 27 at 4:30 p.m.
Quilters exhibit continues through Saturday
LIHU‘E — Artist mLea Ingram said on Tuesday that Jeni Hardy is present in spirit during the Garden Isle Quilters Exhibit and Sale that opened last Friday with the artists reception in the evening at the Kaua‘i Society of Artists gallery at the Kukui Grove Center.
Youth rally at convention hall on Friday
LIHU‘E — Young people, sixth grade through high school, are invited to attend the Island-Wide Youth Rally on Friday at the Kaua‘i War Memorial Convention Hall.
Jobless rate inches higher in July
LIHU‘E — The unemployment rate on Kaua‘i increased for the first time in 2024, when compared with the same month a year earlier, as more than one-half dozen sectors of the economy shed jobs in July.
Obituaries for Thursday, August 22, 2024
Obituaries for Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Waimea High seeking wrestling and baseball coaches
Happy Camper for Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024
The Showtime Characters Chicken (nope, just one showed up for the Kaua‘i Farm Fair Tribute on Saturday) hung around the USDA and Kaua‘i Invasive Species Committee tables, trying to get a sample of rhinoceros beetle (Hawai‘i Farm Bureau President Brian Miyamoto said the trees surrounding The Grove Farm Market are beetle-free) ahead of Toddler Tuesday.
Kaua‘i Community College gets $1.19 million grant
PUHI — Kaua‘i Community College announced on Tuesday that it was awarded $1,194,119 by the U.S. Department of Education/Native Hawaiian Education Program.
Hooser: Legislative reform — a tipping point
Kim Coco Iwamoto’s win against 30-year incumbent, representative and Speaker of the House for the past six years, Scott Saiki, is a truly historic achievement.
Visitor from Japan in critical condition after being pulled from water
LAWA‘I — A 66-year-old visitor from Japan was pulled from the water off Lawa‘i Beach in South Shore on Wednesday, Aug. 14.
Relay for Life celebrates cancer survivors on Kaua‘i
LIHU‘E — Hundreds of people of all ages converged at the Vidinha Stadium soccer fields for the annual American Cancer Society Relay for Life on Saturday.
Births for Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Obituaries for Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Happy Camper for Monday, Aug. 19, 2024
Shirley Medeiros (Wayne has a new, blue Kukui Grove Maintenance shirt on!) and her crew that included Ella Kimokeo and Phylli Correia were relishing Phyllis’s cottonberry tree that she has found on Saturday during the busy Kaua‘i Farm Fair Tribute.
5th annual Food Drive and Free Music Festival on Aug. 24
ANAHOLA — Sponsored by Security National Mortgage, Kauai County Councilwoman Felicia Cowden, Old Republic Title Co. and Da Funk Band, everyone is welcome to the 5th annual Food Drive and Free Music Festival that will take place at the Anahola Marketplace on Aug. 24.
Sheraton Kaua‘i workers vote to authorize strike
Unite Here Local 5 workers at the Sheraton Kauai Resort have authorized a petition giving the union’s negotiating committee the power to call a strike.