Kaumakani News

Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann will be in Washington, D.C., tomorrow to meet with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and other federal officials about Honolulu's rail transit project, city spokesman Bill Brennan said.

LIHU'E, Kauai - Leaders at Gay & Robinson and Pacific West Energy on Friday signed what G&R's Alan Kennett called a "term sheet" enabling Pacific West to lease the Kaumakani mill and boiler, and the Nawiliwili shipping and storage terminal.

The state says tax revenues for the first five months of this fiscal year are 6.5 percent below revenues recorded for the same period the previous fiscal year.

HONOLULU Federal officials are offering a reward of up to $5,000 to anyone who can provide information leading to the conviction of the persons responsible for the killing of a Hawaiian monk seal on Kauai.

Tell people you're going to Niihau, and they invariably exclaim,"No way!"Or,"Do you know the Robinsons?" Yes, way, and I do not know the Robinsons.

From Los Angeles, nonstop service to Lihue, Kauai, is offered on Delta, United and American, and connecting service is available on Hawaiian, Alaska, American, Northwest, United and Continental.

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.