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MEDIA RELEASE The state Department of Education will place Pono Choices implementation on hold as it conducts another review of the pilot curriculum. Pono Choices is a medically accurate teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention program funded by the federal Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) and developed by the University of Hawaii at […]

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Hawaii 24/7 Staff Fire officials are investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a home Friday afternoon on Lalakea Street in Pahoa. Firefighter crews report they were alerted at 2:41 p.m. and arrived to find the 1,200-square-foot home engulfed in flames. Two occupants were not injured. The one-story, three-bedroom, two-bathroom home was deemed a […]

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Second Annual Wayne “Big Dog” Joseph 5K Walk/Run Thursday, Nov. 28 in Hilo Ian McQuate 17:00 Steven Hunter 17:34 Axl Aricayos 17:44 Ryan Witthans 18:41 Zack Mermel 18:47 Mike Daly 18:48 Tod Narohnic 19:00 Kai Garson- Shumway 19:17 Bryn Witthans 19:17 Bill McMahon 19:20 Conrad Salboro 19:35 Johann Kuipers 19:42 Curtis Neck 19:43 Mehana Sabado-Halpern […]

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Hawaii 24/7 Staff UPDATED: 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 The man who died Friday morning in a tractor-trailer crash has been identified as Troy K. Pattioay, 31, of Keaau. Pattioay died when the utility tractor-trailer he was driving apparently lost its brakes on a steep slope of the Daniel K. Inouye Highway in South Kohala. […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Dr. Alex Walter has received the Hawaii Psychological Association award for “Provision of Psychological Services to Rural Communities for 2013.” An awards ceremony was Nov. 15 in Honolulu. Walter has served the Island of Hawaii as a supervisor at the DOE for eleven years, from which she has recently retired. She now does […]

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