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Hawaii 24/7 Staff UPDATED, 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11 Big Island police arrested a 23-year-old Kona man in connection with several reports of terroristic threatening Monday in Honokaa. Lyle Kawika Pascubillo of Kailua-Kona is being held at the Kona police cellblock on suspicion of three terroristic threat offenses. Hamakua patrol officers received a complaint from […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Midst a flood of quirky words including homonyms … and in front of a sea of family members and fellow students, Waimea Middle School’s eighth grade student Anatevka AhLoy became the 2012 school Scripps Spelling Bee Champion on the last day before winter break. Anatevka’s champion word was “audacious”… preceded by nearly 20 […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The national annual Scripps Spelling Bee, which concludes with highly competitive finals in Washington, D.C., and in Hawaii, includes a statewide bee that is broadcast live by PBS Hawaii Public Television, begins on campuses across the state. Waimea Middle School again host its schoolwide Spelling Bee from 8:30 – 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Waimea Middle School’s Ike Hawaii program – in partnership with Na Kalai Waa – invites students, families and community friends to the second in a series of workshops to share and connect with the values and cultural and academic “lessons” of voyaging to help prepare to follow and support the four-year worldwide sail […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Families with students in Waimea Middle School are invited to a first-ever Ohana Makahiki Festival. which runs 9 a.m.-noon, Saturday, Nov. 17 to learn about voyaging and the foods Polynesians brought with them to Hawaii, lupe (kite) making and makahiki games and how these connect to the past and present – including their […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Students, families and interested community members are invited to the next meeting of Waimea Middle School’s Local Advisory Panel 4:30-6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 in Classroom K-4, which is located in the courtyard immediately behind the school office. The agenda will cover an update on the school’s in depth Accreditation Self-Study process. […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Waimea Middle School seventh grade student Roland Afaga, Jr., earned the National Weekly Top Scorer Achievement Award for scoring more points in one week than any other student in the entire United States using TeenBiz3000 – a popular, standards-based online reading program tailored to the individual student’s reading ability. “We are so proud […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Waimea Middle and Elementary School families and the entire community are invited to check out Malaai school garden’s new weekly student-run “Farm Stand,” beginning 2:15-4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12. Located on the south side of the school campus near the entry to the 3/4-acre organic Malaai learning garden, the Farm Stand will offer […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Cross country student athletes from middle schools across North Hawaii and East Hawaii will gather Saturday, Sept. 29 at the starting line for Waimea Middle School’s 5th Annual Cross Country Meet. Student runners will lap the school campus and out into what is former Parker Ranch pasture land that is now vacant school […]

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Special to Hawaii 24/7 On Wednesday, Sept. 5, Regional Vice President Chris Luedi, Executive Chef Hubert and Executive Sous Chef Steve headed up to Waimea Middle School to donate gently used Fairmont Fit adidas gear to members of the Waimea Middle School cross country team. Forty of the 280 students had signed up to run […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Families of Waimea Middle School’s 6th to 8th grade students are urged to come to campus any day this week between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., to pick up their child’s class schedule, purchase mandatory student uniforms, pay fees for bus, food service, a yearbook, class dues and student activities, and also to […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Families and community friends of Waimea Middle School are invited to “Get The Scoop” on the soon-to-begin 2012-13 school year with an informal gathering from 5-6 p.m., Thursday, July 19 in the school cafeteria. It’s free and will include scoops of steaming hot soup – perfect for what has been a chilly, damp […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The Waimea community – especially incoming 6th-8th grade students and families of Waimea Middle School – are invited to the first of several “Meet ‘N Greet” gatherings 2:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, July 6 with the school’s new Principal Matt Horne. The gathering is free and also will celebrate the ending of the school’s fifth […]

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MEDIA RELEASE In what represents a major step forward recognizing schoolwide academic progress, Waimea Middle Public Conversion Charter School has become a “Candidate for Accreditation.” This was approved by the Schools Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), and comes after an Initial Accreditation Visit on April 13, 2012, covering the school’s […]

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