(Media release) — What about the County Budget next year? Will property taxes have to be raised? Will there be transfer station disposal fees? Everyone is looking for answers about what next year will be like.
Mayor Billy Kenoi and staff will explain how they plan to deal with the difficult [...]
(Media release) — Middle School students at Hawaii Preparatory Academy (HPA) will present Holiday Happenings at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009. The performance, which is free and open to the public, will be held at Gates Performing Arts Center on the school’s Upper Campus.
Holiday Happenings will [...]
Image courtesy of Dr. Mezmer's World of Bad Psychology
By Hugh Clark
How long will we be collectively taken? First her lies, then her lack of transparency she promisied to bring us, then the public education follies, demanding [...]
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Laura's Sage Country Quilt
(Media release) — This, in a nutshell, is the theme of the 49th Annual Waimea Christmas Parade at 6 p.m., Sat., Dec. 5, 2009. Formally themed “Aloha Kalikimaka O Waimea: Sharing Our Blessings!”, it will indeed be a time to [...]
(Editor’s Note: Following are thoughts shared by Guenn Adare. She writes about life’s journey of joy and sorrow, of fulfillment and loss, of gaining wisdom out of loss and pain, of healing and transcending our suffering, and of being of service to humanity and [...]
By Ken Kudo
Regarding the previous article on “Stone Soup,” (Waimea Middle School students to make “Stone Soup” on Furlough Friday, Dec. 4) I thought it would be interesting to present the Pahoa version of this classic Grimm’s fairytale. I must have thought up this version five [...]
By Ken Kudo
Rockwall building gets your creative juice flowing, causing me to write a song called, “Pahoehoe Rock” (If there’s one thing that we got, its pahoehoe rock). The story of “The Littlest Pahoehoe” also came to me, quite spontaneously, while looking for a rock that [...]
(Media release) — Harvey Tajiri is the slated guest speaker at a Conservative Forum of Hawaii meeting at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009 at a private home.
Harvey Tajiri served as a Hawaii County Council member for ten years, a state representative for six years, and has served on the University of [...]
Kathy Plack, winner of the Big Island Chronicle logo contest (Photo by Peter Frost)
Mahalo to the 18 people who gathered Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009 at Luquin’s Mexican Restaurant to celebrate the website’s first year of operation. It was truly a fun time, having some [...]
Sonita Dowd photo
A chance to buy and sell everything camera-related will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 at a photographers’ swap meet at the Keaau Fine Art Center in the Shipman Business Park. Call (808) 966-9995 for more information.
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of Big Island Chronicle (BIC), with hopefully many more years to come. It was very important to me to come up with a logo for this venture, in time for the one-year celebration. Special thanks to Kathy Plack for designing [...]
The Association of Pacific Island Legislatures will conduct it 50th Board of Directors meeting in the Senate Chamber of the Hawai‘i State Capitol this week.
The meetings are slated for 10 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009 and at 9 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009 in the Senate Chamber of the State [...]
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Not long after the Second World War a small cargo ship was plowing through rough seas and squalls in the Western Pacific. [...]
I guess I should be thankful that in the 12 years I have been a journalist, I can count just a couple of times in which people I have written about have harassed me. Now is one of those times. And I’m going to be as open and transparent about [...]
The Pahoa Holiday Parade commences at 10 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 5 and the Waimea parade is that same evening. The Kea'au parade is at' [...]
Wall Street Journal health blog image
(Editor’s Note: Following is the first in an ongoing series of thoughts shared by Guenn Adare. She writes about life’s journey of joy and sorrow, of fulfillment and loss, [...]
M-C Turgeon art
By Curtis Narimatsu
Indian word kiwani means to share, as in the gift is the sharing, not the gift itself. Kiwanis Club started modestly in Detroit in 1915 [as all of our great middle class business charity/service outfits did simultaneously in and around the [...]
Cartoon by Tom Lackey
Puna cartoonist Tom Lackey is gearing up for the campaign season with his recent cartoon, “Wanted: Political Candidates.” Lackey seems to poke fun of the fact that candidates host fundraisers to promote themselves and their campaigns, but then he plugs [...]
By Pete Hoffmann
No amount of wishful thinking can alter the fact that the current economic downturn will likely continue through 2010 unabated in Hawai’i County. For County government the issue remains how substantial will be the budget crisis and what must we do to balance the budget in fiscal year [...]
Make a Smilebox invite
Don’t forget that on Tuesday, Dec. 1 we celebrate the one-year anniversary of Big Island Chronicle (BIC). We will gather at lunchtime at Luquin’s Mexican Restaurant for a meal and for [...]
Waimea Middle Public Conversion Charter School students in their garden. Courtesy photo.
Aloha Friends!
As we gaze out at our school garden toward Mauna Kea on a cool Waimea day, we can see Mala’ai is thriving. Everywhere you [...]
Mary Spears art
(Media release) — The Office of Mauna Kea Management will be hosting three island-wide open houses on the Public Access Plan for University of Hawaii Management Areas on Mauna Kea (Public Access Plan) and the Decommissioning Plan for the Mauna Kea Observatories [...]
(Media release) — Roadwork on Palani Road in North Kona begins Nov. 30 and continues through Dec. 14.
Nov. 30-Dec. 4, Bolton Inc., will resurface and widen Palani Road near Grace Community Church. Night roadwork hours are 8 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. Off-duty officers will direct traffic and motorists should expect [...]
“Pele at Pu’u ‘O’o” by Rebecca Rosen Charon is among the art and items to be auctioned at the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Benefit Christmas Party in Hawaiian Beaches on Saturday. Call (808) 965-0234 to RSVP.
Puna Councilwoman Emily Naeole-Beason is depicted in a sculpture painting by Karen Mortensen, which is currently on display in the lobby of the Pahoa Branch of First Hawaiian Bank. Mortensen, a retired fashion designer from Denmark who studied fine art at Chouinard Art Institute [...]
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(Media release) — The Federal Highways Administration and the Hawaii State Department of Transportation have authorized Hawaii County to build the Ane Keohokalole Highway using $35 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Hawaii County now has five years to complete the initial phase of what [...]
Image courtesy of Hawaii Preparatory Academy
(Media release) — Hawaii Preparatory Academy welcomes the holiday season with a concert at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009, at the school’s Davies Chapel, located at the Upper Campus. The concert is free and open to [...]
A Tree For A New Canoe by Herb Kawainui Kane. For more images from Hawaii's foremost artist and historian, click here.
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1958 Thanksgiving Table art courtesy of Squidoo
By Sofia Wilt
I work as a personal cook specializing in whole foods and health supportive cuisine. Over time I’ve come to learn that the context of how we eat is [...]
Image courtesy of macilious
By Brian Jordan
On the afternoon of Nov. 18, early Childhood Education Centers received a stunning message from Department of Human Services (DHS) on Oahu: “Due to budget cuts we are going to increase your co pay from $50 [...]
Former West Hawaii Today Hilo Bureau Chief Jim Quirk, now in Pennsylvania, recently launched www.quirkzone.com.
A growing list of us former staffers at the West Hawaii Today (WHT) have taken to publishing [...]
Nita Pilago with 2009 Miss Pearls of Polynesia Lucie Wilson
Nita Pilago’s Wahine Toa Designs were recently featured at the Miss Pearls of Polynesia scholarship pageant in Las Vegas.
The scholarship pageant took place in Tahiti up until two years [...]
Road Painting III By Nancy Dwyer
By James Weatherford, Ph.D
Inevitably, when discussion turns to what to do to make life better in Puna, the Keaau-Pahoa Road is mentioned. Throughout the Puna Community Development Plan this road has been a point of concern. Rightly so. There is [...]
(Media release) — Hawaii County Mayor Billy Kenoi will meet with members of the press at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 regarding an important announcement about the Ane Keohokalole Highway, also known as the Mid-Level Road. The press conference will be held at the mayor’s Kona office, 75-5722 Hanama Place. Other state, [...]
Tokyo Rose images courtesy of Radio Heritage Foundation
Tokyo Rose aka Iva Toguri D'Aquino was an American who broadcast as "Orphan Ann" during the Zero Hour program on Radio Tokyo during World War 11. A jury convicted her of treason in 1949, but [...]
Image by STORM at stormantic.com
This week I spent about four hours trying to put together a story about domestic violence, only to scrap the whole project in its finality. Very rarely do I scrap a story like that. The story and my unsuccessful experience trying to [...]
Edward Marion art
(Media release) — Resumption of the County’s Holiday Shared Ride Taxi Program will be announced at a media conference at 2 p.m., Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, in Conference Room 1501 in the recently renovated County building at 25 Aupuni Street, Hilo.
The Holiday Shared Ride [...]
Annetta Lucero courtesy photo
For those who didn’t make “The Masked Ball” at Seaview Performing Arts Center for Education (SPACE) in Puna last night, I urge you to catch tonight’s performance at 7 p.m.
This cirque performance features world champion twirlsport artist Annetta Lucero along with [...]
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