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State may stop ignoring private memorials on Hawaii shorelines

Two grave markers cemented onto rocks at a tide pool near Sandy Beach have raised the question of whether such memorials are legal.

A long-held state policy to ignore grave markers cemented to the rocks along the shoreline of the Wai'anae Coast isn't sitting well in Hawai'i Kai. More »

Waipahu pool open again

Mayor Mufi Hannemann watched city parks official Toni Robinson take the inaugural jump into the Waipahu District Park swimming pool yesterday. The pool had been closed for more than four years for repairs.

WAIPAHU, Hawaii — The Waipahu community swimming pool reopened yesterday, four years after it was closed because shifting soil buckled the pool deck and damaged pipes. The city spent $2.2 million to shore up the deck by installing steel piles under it. Photo gallery Video More »

Sugar cane varieties had amazing uses in the Hawaii of old

Heirloom ko cultivars, above and below, make fine garden additions.

In old Hawai'i, more than 40 different varieties of sugar cane, saccharum officinarum, or ko, were propagated. The cultivars planted by commercial sugar cane producers were the result of breeding hybrids that exhibited millable, high-yielding, disease-resistant canes. Unfortunately, this hybridization process resulted in the loss of many of the unique, heirloom ko that previously graced our 'aina. More »

EWA BEACH ELEM. IS A HAWAII BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL

Ewa Beach Elementary is one of three schools selected as a Hawaii Blue Ribbon School for 2009-2010.

Ewa Beach Elementary is one of three schools selected as a Hawaii Blue Ribbon School for 2009-2010. More »

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Waipahu

Mayor Mufi Hannemann watched city parks official Toni Robinson take the inaugural jump into the Waipahu District Park swimming pool yesterday. The pool had been closed for more than four years for repairs.

Waipahu pool open again Photo gallery Video

WAIPAHU, Hawaii — The Waipahu community swimming pool reopened yesterday, four years after it was closed because shifting soil buckled the pool deck and damaged pipes. The city spent $2.2 million to shore up the deck by installing steel piles under it. More »

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