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Letters 5-25-13
Letters Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:05amProperty taxes
Value should be based on what owner paid
The coverage given the county proposed fiscal budget by your paper is great. While there may not be hordes of people attending...
About Town 5-25-13
Local Features Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:05amFarm labor law forum slated June 1
The Kona Coffee Council and John Knorek, of Torkildson Law Firm in Honolulu, are offering a farm labor law forum from 9 a.m. to noon June 1, followed by a...
Hilo alum Sunahara to assist Kiraly on U.S. women’s Olympic volleyball team
Local Sports Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:59amFormer UCLA All-American and University of Cincinnati head coach Reed Sunahara is living a dream while working with the U.S. women’s national volleyball team.
Sunahara, who graduated from...
Keck helps with study of astronomical missing link
Local News Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:05amA routine survey of the night sky caught the image of a particularly bright image and that image captured the attention of a University of California postdoctoral scholar.
That student’s...
State 5.25
State Wire Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:05amKauai police: Uptick in counterfeit money
LIHUE, Kauai — Kauai police are warning about an uptick in counterfeit bills being used on the island.
Assistant Chief Roy Asher says once...
Going Out With A Bang
Local Sports Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 1:00amWaiakea catcher Kean Wong put up monster numbers in his final Big Island Interscholastic Federation baseball season, making a grand exit after highlight performances in front of heightened...
Parker School class of 2013 graduation
Local News Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:05amParker School Graduate Kanoe Schutte is covered in lei after Friday’s Commencement Ceremony at Kahilu Theatre in Waimea. (Laura Shimabuku/Special to West Hawaii Today)
Hulali Covington right...
Hawaii Preparatory Academy class of 2013
Local News Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:05amHawaii Preparatory Academy graduate Juan Yarawamai is covered with lei following commencement exercises on Friday. (Anna Pacheco/Special to West Hawaii Today)
Samuel Tuhy hugs Headmaster...
N. Korean envoy delivers letter to China’s president
Nation & World News Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:05amBEIJING — A top North Korean envoy has delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament...
Oversize-truck permits rely on drivers to check height clearances
Nation & World News Comments Updated: May 25, 2013 12:05amA few minutes online and $10 are all it takes to get a permit to drive an oversize truck across Washington state.
Drivers obtain more than 130,000 of the permits every year, many of them...
