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MEDIA RELEASE Individuals interested in becoming Hawaii FoodCorps service members now have until March 31 to submit applications. The national FoodCorps is recruiting service members throughout Hawaii who are passionate about healthy food, farms and kids to help connect our keiki to real food and help them grow up healthy. FoodCorps, a national organization addressing […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Waimea Country School’s second and third graders recently visited the Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden as part of their social studies unit on the Hawaiian people and their plants. The students began by looking at some of the 200 species of plants growing in four zones: coastal, dry forest, agricultural, and upland forest, […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Gov. Neil Abercrombie has issued a proclamation recognizing March 18-24, 2013 as “Detect-A-Leak-Week” in Hawaii. The proclamation also announces the state Commission on Water Resource Management, in partnership with the island county water departments and the Hawaii Rural Water Association, is encouraging all Hawaii residents to check for leaks at their home, properties […]

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Hawaii 24/7 Staff The following PDF includes the actions taken by the Hawaii County Council at its regular meeting March 13. — Find out more:

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MEDIA RELEASE University of Hawaii at Hilo Athletic Director Dexter Irvin has announced that men’s basketball head coach Jeff Law will not be returning to the Vulcan bench after completing his 15th season. Law has accepted a position at former Pacific West Conference institution Western New Mexico University. “Every assistant coach looks for that break […]

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MEDIA RELEASE District 7 Council Member Dru Kanuha and District 8 Council Member Karen Eoff host a talk story session to report on the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference that they attended in Washington D.C. and a general community update. The meeting is 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, March 19 at the West Hawaii Civic Center, […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Two Waimea Middle School family members have been elected to serve on the school’s Local Advisory Panel (LAP) and will be introduced at the next meeting 4:30-6:30 p.m. Monday, March 25 in Classroom K-04. Students, families, faculty, staff and community friends are invited and there is time set aside at the start of […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The state Department of Labor & Industrial Relations has announced the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for January was 5.2 percent, compared to the revised rate of 5.1 percent in December. Statewide, there were 618,350 employed and 33,850 unemployed in January, for a total seasonally adjusted labor force of 652,200. Nationally, the seasonally adjusted […]

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MEDIA RELEASE In February, Bill White, a retired Navy Seal and owner of Hale Kea Farms in Waimea, visited the Parker School campus as part of the school’s Speaker Series. He spoke to a group of juniors and seniors about his experience as a Navy Seal. The Speaker Series, the brainchild of school supporter Rea […]

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Fire/rescue crews responded to an 11:14 a.m. alarm Monday (March 18) to an overdue hiker in the Hawaiian Paradise Park area of Puna. The hiker, a 36-year-old man, was last seen by his father entering the forest area off 11th Avenue off Kaloli Drive at 10 a.m. on Saturday (March 16).

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MEDIA RELEASE Anthony Texeira, a maintenance specialist at the Pohakuloa Training Area, has received the Quarterly Employee Award for his exceptional work. “It’s an honor to select Tony for this award,” said Lt. Col. Eric Shwedo, PTA commander. “He always goes the extra mile in performing critical tasks to maintain our targets, ranges and equipment. […]

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Equip the Kitchens campaign awarded $5,000

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Chef Ippy Aiona opens gastropub at Kings’ Shops

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A 3-year-old Hilo boy died Friday (March 15) from injuries he received after being run over by a pick-up truck in the Eden Roc subdivision in Mountain View. The boy was identified as Treston S.C. Crowley, of a Hilo address.

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