Honaunau News

A Kona grand jury last week returned indictments against two men and a woman for allegedly operating a marijuana farm in South Kona.

Paul Kern Hilburn, 81, of Honaunau died April 23, 2013. Born Oct. 4, 1931, in Kobe, Japan, he was an Army veteran, teacher, principal and school superintendent and member of the Big Island Gun Club, Civil Air Patrol and Experimental Aircraft Association.

Alan W. Crowe Feb. 1, 2013 Alan W. Crowe, 65, of Honolulu, a retiree and an Army and Air Force veteran, died in Honolulu.

The Coast Guard and Hawaii County Fire Department are searching for a missing spear fisherman off the coast of Honaunau Beach Park on the Big Island.

Richard Masayuki Tanaka, 87, of Honaunau died Jan. 18, 2013, at a private care home in Kailua-Kona. Born April 8, 1925, in Keei, he was a retired assistant bell captain at the former Kona Hilton Hotel, a third generation lifelong coffee farmer, an Army Korean War and National Guard veteran and member of the Keei Kumiai, Kumamoto Kenjin Kai, Big ... (more)