Ewa Beach News

The board that oversees Hawaii's public libraries was told Thursday about a proposal to close five libraries statewide to deal with budget cuts.

The Board of Education, which oversees operations of state libraries, is considering closing five libraries due to budget cuts.

Times Super Market, founded 60 years ago by the sons of Okinawan immigrants, is buying 82-year-old Star Markets in a deal that brings together two longtime fixtures in the Hawaii food service industry.

"Currents" of by Claudia Johnson. From the collection of Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea.

After 23 hours in labor with their first child, Alim and Cydney Shabazz thought there was plenty of time to get from Ewa Beach to Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children for their daughter's birth.

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He's described as "father, marathon runner, scuba diver, aviation enthusiast, tree hugger, home improvement do-it-yourselfer and all-around outdoor sports junkie." The terms "Mars explorer" and "astronaut" are missing from Brian Shiro's resume, but the 30-year-old is closing in on those.

Were you around when Hawaii became a state in 1959? We'd like to hear from you for a commemorative 50th-anniversary edition.

EWA BEACH - Gescille Acuna, a 13-year-old resident of Ewa Beach, said she's grateful for a program called Operation Purple.

The 2nd International Symposium on Freeway and Tollway Operations is being held Sunday through next Wednesday in Honolulu, where hundreds of engineers and financiers from around the world will converge to share transportation solutions with us.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning System has been operating with 10 defunct ocean buoys that are supposed to be supplying information from the Northwest Pacific, but a ship is now repairing or replacing them, officials say.

Prosecutors are trying to convict Toi Nofoa of murder for the shooting of his girlfriend, Royal Kaukani and collect more money from the company that bailed him out.

Owners of a 10-year-old commercial fish farm want to quadruple production at their operation off Ewa Beach, where they raise moi in open-ocean cages.

Christopher Derige Malano, from Ewa Beach, stands in front of a popular clothing store called LC Waikiki in a shopping mall in Istanbul, Turkey.

The city on Wednesday will test the outdoor siren warning systems in several locations on Oahu.

Ewa Beach Public & School Library will offer six special events to celebrate the 2009 HSPLS Children's Summer Reading Program from June 10 July 17 in the Meeting Room.

"Let's All Work Together to Save Our World" was the slogan Justin Heltman chose in designing a poster depicting the negative effects of marine debris in our oceans.

After a laudable effort at testing a ferry commuter service between Leeward Oahu and downtown, Mayor Mufi Hannemann has announced that the service will be stopped at the end of June.

The Friends of the Ewa Beach Library will conduct its Spring Book Sale on Saturday, May 30 at the Ewa Beach Public & School Library.

Hawaii Medical Center, which has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization since August, has named hospital administrators for its two hospitals, both newly created positions.