Kaumakani News

WAIMEA, Kauai - The main streets of Waimea and Hanapepe were filled yesterday with a cacophony of truck horns, shouts and waves for a half-hour in each town as Gay & Robinson cane haul trucks rumbled through for the last time.

KAUMAKANI - Kauai is reading the last few paragraphs of one long chapter, but is not at the end of the book.

Gay & Robinson will process its last sugar crops in October, ending 117 years in the sugar business on Kauai.

KAUMAKANI, Hawaii - Gay & Robinson Inc. says its final sugar cane harvest will be processed in late October, when the company will officially leave the sugar business after 119 years.

It's one of the greatest disasters to hit Hawaii. Almost 18 years ago, Hurricane Iniki slammed into Kauai.

It's one of the greatest disasters to hit Hawaii. Almost 18 years ago, Hurricane Iniki slammed into Kauai.

Earl, a retired champion rope horse, and Buddy, a 5-year-old quarterhorse, were mysteriously shot last week in a Kapaia, Kauai pasture, leaving one dead and the other injured.

A tourist and a Kaua'i man were killed and three others injured yesterday in a three-vehicle accident that shut down Kuhio Highway on the Garden Island for nearly nine hours.

Two men died yesterday morning and three others were injured in a crash near the Wailua Golf Course on Kauai involving a big-rig truck, a rental car and a motorcycle.

A memorial ceremony for two Hawaiian monk seals who were shot to death earlier this year will be held tomorrow at Poipu Beach Park on Kauai.

The Surfrider Foundation's Kauai chapter is offering a reward -- as yet unspecified -- for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the shooting death of two Hawaiian monk seals on Kauai.

The Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation, Inc. has awarded a Waimea High School senior one of its top three scholarship awards.

Federal officials suspect humans caused the death of a 4-year-old monk seal on Kauai and have opened an investigation.