Big Island Surf ReportBJ Penn has announced a new fan contest on his newest blog on the Yard Barker site.
It has probably been announced on bjpenn.com as well, but I was too excited when I entered to go to his site to look.
The winner gets a free trip to Hawaii and a lesson with BJ Penn himself.
All of [...]
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The Honolulu Weekly has an interesting article regarding the geneaology of Hawaii breweries and our beer culture – Kona Brewing Company gets a nod:
Kona Brewing Company is Hawai‘i’s largest brewery, the 14th largest craft brewing company in America and the top-selling craft beer in the Islands. Created in 1994 by father-and-son team Cameron Healy and [...]
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HONOLULU (AP) — National wildlife refuges and hatcheries in Hawaii will receive more than $8 million in stimulus funding.
Hawaii Senators Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka said in a Washington news release that the funding “will help protect and preserve irreplaceable, beautiful and unique parts of Hawaii.”
They singled out Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge on Maui, [...]
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On the Big Island, a new roadway has West-Hawaii residents spending less time in their cars. A 3800 foot road extension now connects Kealakehe to the villages of La’i Opua. Governor Linda Lingle and Big Island Mayor Billy Kenoi were on hand to dedicate Keanalehu Drive on thursday. Officials say it will allow better traffic [...]
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YAKIMA, Wash. – Valerie Kitamori (So., Hilo, Hawaii, right) missed earning all-conference honors by one stroke Sunday, finishing seventh to lead Pacific to a fifth place finish at the Northwest Conference Women’s Golf Championships, held at the Apple Tree Golf Course.
Kitamori followed up her first day round of 89 by dropping four strokes to 85 [...]
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Since it found its way to the Big Island of Hawaii — most likely in 2001 via a palm-seedlings shipment from Taiwan — stinging nettle caterpillars (Darna pallivitta) have been up to no good. The invasive critters have been spotted on over 30 different types of plants, including palms, grasses and weeds, and recently, the [...]
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Via SFGate.com:
It’s impossible to visit Hawaii without seeing — if not sampling — Kona coffee in stores and restaurants. Better yet is a tour of its scenic source on the southwest side of the Big Island. But you can also get a locally grown and brewed cup of joe in other distinctive parts of the [...]
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Officers from the Hawai’i Police Department began making bicycle patrols in Hilo at the beginning of April. Bike patrols will be added shortly in Kona and Puna.
Since the bike patrols began, police have already seen positive results in the areas of liquor enforcement, drug enforcement and community satisfaction, said Lieutenant Jason Cortez, who supervises the [...]
A Big Island technology startup broke ground Thursday on its $20 million manufacturing plant that will turn macadamia nut shells into premium-grade carbon for filtration devices.
Big Island Carbon LLC will build on a four-acre parcel of land in the Kaie Hana Industrial Park in Kawaihae, north of Kona. The land is being leased from the [...]
It might not look like much, but this image represents one of the most distant objects astronomers have ever seen, 12.9 billion light years away.
It is a “Lyman-alpha blob” and is 55,000 light years across – as large as present-day galaxies.
Though younger such blobs have been found, “Himiko” confounds the idea that such large objects [...]
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