Kaunakakai News

Sandwich Isles Communications , a local telecommunications company that services Hawaiian Homestead communities statewide, has completed installation of its new, state-of-the-art, undersea fiber optic cable connecting the five major Hawaiian islands .

KAUNAKAKAI, MOLOKAI>> Residents in the main town of Kaunakakai and nearby Kalae are being asked to use county drinking water for health and safety purposes only until a well pump is replaced.

There is precious little space for new additions at the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts archives room in Kane'ohe, which houses what is believed to be the biggest collection of Father Damien artifacts outside Belgium.

Three Maui County teen-agers and the anti-tobacco movement they're leading in Hawaii were tapped for a national award recognizing their campaign against cigarettes and tobacco advertising aimed at them and their peers.

WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawai'i, today announced a $6,867,000 U.S. Department of Transportation grant to build a new Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Facility at the Moloka'i Airport in Kaunakakai.

The reef along Moloka'i's south shore stands out for many reasons. It is the longest fringing reef in U.S. waters and has more coral cover than any other around the main Hawaiian Islands.

Kaunakakai Elementary School Principal Janice Espiritu will invest most, if not all, of her $25,000 award winnings in education.

If you made the journey all the way across the Pacific to Honolulu and promptly determined that the hustle and bustle of the busy city is not for you, you might want to consider heading to an outer island.

Firefighters on Molokai and the Air One crew on Maui assisted in the successful location and rescue Saturday of a Molokai hunter.

What would a Hawai'i public elementary school principal do with $25,000? Fix the library, buy computers, set up a science center ... the wish list is varied, but the possibility is real.

The more than 50-year-old Molokai Mission School in Kaunakakai will close at the end of this school year, as it will lose much of its funding that has come from the affiliated Seventh-day Adventist Church, school officials said.

Five Keanae residents launched a campaign this week to stop the state Department of Education from permanently closing the one-room schoolhouse in their remote East Maui community.

Young Brothers on Monday asked to intervene in the Pasha Hawaii application to the Public Utilities Commission to use its trans-Pacific transporter, MV Jean Anne, to carry vehicles and cargo interisland.

Island Insurance Foundation recognized 12 public school principals nominated for the Masayuki Tokioka Excellence in School Leadership Award.

An awards ceremony to honor student winners of the statewide Hawaii Center for the Book Sixth Annual Letters about Literature Essay Contest will be conducted on Saturday, April 25 at the Hawaii State Library.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources says the temporary pier replaces a concrete catwalk adjoining the boat ramp that collapsed in February.

Pomaika'i Elementary School Principal Rene Yamafuji and Kaunakakai Elementary Principal Janice Espiritu were two of 12 public school principals honored this past weekend by the Island Insurance Foundation.

A local non-profit group that has become a leader in promoting family literacy nationwide is celebrating its 10th anniversary by offering a series of presentations in April to encourage parents to read to their keiki.

Gov. Linda Lingle's Molokai Community Advisory Council is set to discuss this month a project to establish a wind farm on Molokai.

Local comedian and morning radio show host Augie Tulba will leave KQMQ-FM 93.1 "The Zone" after Tuesday after a little more than a year with the station.