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Entries from May 30th, 2009
Awesome Big Island Photos by Jack Kostelec
May 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Photos
Tags: photography
Photos From 1883 to 1905 On Display at Lyman Museum In Hilo
May 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Community, Education
The photos you see here nearly wound up in a Honolulu landfill.
Along with 800 other turn-of-the-20th-century glass plate photos of the Kingdom of Hawaii taken by Bertram Gabriel Bellinghausen, they were marked for trash collectors by a Honolulu private school in 1964 before someone wisely saved them.
Bellinghausen was a young Marianist brother from Dayton, Ohio, [...]
Tags: hilo museum·photography
New Satellite Photos of Plumes Given Off By Kilauea
May 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Environment, Science
Plumes continued to rise from Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii’s big island in late May 2009 — the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite captured this true-color image on May 24, 2009.
Small clouds float overhead, casting their shadows on the land surface below. The relatively light cloud cover allows a clear view of [...]
Flower Farming Sales Down 8% in 2008
May 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Agriculture
Hawaii’s floriculture and nursery products were valued at an estimated $98.6 million in 2008.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Hawaii Field Office said the value was down 9 percent from $108.7 million in 2007.
The report said the industry still is a major contributor to Hawaii’s agriculture. Growers commented on slower business in 2008 as a result [...]
Tags: Economy
Crackdown on Puna Crime
May 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Crime
In response to recent spikes in crimes associated with drug use and distribution in Puna, Big Island police have focused their attention on several geographic areas and groups of individuals preying on law-abiding members of our community. To that end, investigators with the Criminal Investigations Division’s Criminal Investigation Section and Vice Section have been conducting [...]
2 Cases of H1N1 (Swine Flu) Reported on the Big Island
May 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Community, health
The number of cases of H1N1 Influenza A, or swine flu, in Hawaii is up to 58, with the Big Island reporting its first two cases.
The Hawaii Department of Health on Tuesday updated its Web site to include the 14 new cases since last week.
The department also broke the cases down by island.
The Big Island [...]
Car Crash in Kona Kills Baby, Mother Injured
May 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Death
A 1-year-old Kona girl was killed and her mother critically injured Saturday night in Kailua-Kona when their car was allegedly struck by a pickup truck whose driver had just run a red light.
Aliyah Braden was pronounced dead at 8:23 p.m. at Kona Community Hospital. She was a passenger in a 2004 Honda 4-door sedan driven [...]
Environmental Study Favors Telescope on Mauna Kea
May 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Environment, Science
HILO, Hawaii – An environmental study says the public benefit would outweigh the drawbacks if the world’s largest telescope were built atop Mauna Kea.
A consortium including the California Institute of Technology has proposed building what it calls a Thirty Meter Telescope on the Big Island mountain.
Another possible site is in Chile.
Some Native Hawaiian groups believe [...]
Travel Channels Samantha Brown Showcases the Big Island This Saturday
May 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Tourism
From About.com:
Viewers tuning into the Travel Channel’s newest series “Samantha Brown’s Great Weekends” on Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) will catch the effervescent Brown at the summit of Mauna Kea with Hawaii Forest & Trail, indulging at the Kona Village luau, and competing in a Kona Coffee Picking Contest during the [...]
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Only Big Island GM Dealership Closes Its Doors
May 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Economy
The only dealerships selling General Motors products on the Big Island have shut down.
Island Chevrolet abruptly closed both its Hilo and Kona dealerships on Monday. The company had sent a plant-closing notice to the state saying it planned to shut down on June 20, but the closure was moved up.
An employee who answered the phone [...]
Tags: GM
