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Oceanic Time Warner Cable saluted its 2012-2013 Outstanding Educators at a Willows luncheon last month, including Castle High guidance teacher Tiffanyrae Yango-Au, Kahuku High P.E. teacher Alvin...
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Yavapai Junior College in Prescott, Ariz., named Jas-mine Solley (Castle 2012) Player of the Week recently. The honor roll student is doing a great job for the Roughrider volleyball team and also was...
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It’s no surprise that Waiahole School dedicated its 130th anniversary commemorative booklet to alumnus and nearly lifelong teacher at the school Tom Tsuha. Now 82, Tom was honored at the Sept. 28...
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Warning: There may be a run on blue paint this week. By the time you read this, Kahuku muralist Hilton Alves will be almost finished with his latest project: the “world’s largest surf art mural” at...
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The Filipino Community Center will salute Kailua’s Emme Tomimbang Nov. 9 at its annual benefit dinner in Waipahu. “We want to honor Emme, a highly esteemed veteran broadcast journalist, for her many...
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Castle alumnus Bryan Clay, an inspiring Olympian and decathlon gold medalist, was in town Oct. 26 to help open Bryan Clay Outdoor Exercise Park near Kapiolani Community College, courtesy of Clark Hatch...
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The creator of the 1994 local comic book superhero Pineapple Man, Sam Campos (a Kahuku High alumnus and now Kaaawa artist) will share his new work Friday as well as screen a few episodes of his...
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Two Kahuku High School seniors have placed in the top one percent of U.S. test-takers on their SAT exams, which puts Chenoa Yorgason and Cooper Schwartz in the running for National Merit Scholarships...
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Jonathan TownsleyThe USTA Hawaii Advanced Junior Tennis team from Kailua made an impressive showing at the recent national championships in South Carolina, winning the Team Spirit Award. Coach Pam...
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Kaneohe author Stuart Ball has updated his popular The Hikers Guide to Oahu, now in its third edition with 10 new hikes plus GPS coordinates. You can hike in to BookEnds in Kailua to pick it up …...
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Cole Horibe WCC graduate Dan Boland recently won a 2013 Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series (The Voice). A Castle graduate, Dan has had a great...
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Award-winning Kailua Realtor Rachel Barnette stars in HGTV’s hit series House Hunters at 11 p.m. Dec. 24 (check updates) helping client Sergio buy his first condo. The Prudential Advantage agent says...
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James Brewbaker Kailua scientist James Brewbaker, also known as Hawaii’s father of sweet corn, has given $1 million to UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to start an endowment for...
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Longtime Kailua imu king Todd Hendricks reports a recent loss of steam – from the imu itself, when a lumber weight punctured the plastic cover and created a “small blowout.” Otherwise the ongoing...
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Alison Croyle Laie native Ken Niumatalolo is in the inaugural class of inductees to the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame. A former UH player and now head coach for Navy, Ken will be inducted with his...
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While he’s always looking for volunteers who love working with native plants at Na Pohaku O Hauwahine (263-8008), Kaimi Scudder arrived too late to sign up Barack and Michelle, who took their famous...
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Retired Kailua electrician and Elks Lodge member Herb Weatherwax, 96, now generates interest in Pearl Harbor among the Arizona Memorial’s youngest visitors. The WWII veteran volunteers there weekly,...
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Windward Choral Society and its artistic director Susan Duprey will sing Sunday with Japan’s Chorus Without Borders in a concert to benefit that nation’s 2011 tsunami victims. The show starts at 5 p.m....
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Alison Wisnom ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 2 Paintings by three Windward artists — Arna Johnson, Peg-gy Krantz and Meala Bishop — are hanging in the newly renovated wings of Kaiser’s Moanalua Medical...
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Now in its fundraising and development stage, the film project I Am Haloa will feature Kaneohe kalo activist Daniel Anthony leading three Kamehameha seniors on a journey to explore their ancestral link...
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