Kealakekua News

A longtime dream of a Hawaii Community College campus at Kona took a step forward yesterday with the Board of Regents' approval of a development plan for the new campus.

At tonight's high school championship games, the Oahu Interscholastic Association will be taking donations for Asia-Pacific disaster relief efforts.

A Big Island woman was scammed for more than $2,000 after posting an item for sale on Craig's List, police said today.

Laupahoehoe Public & School Library will discontinue its Passport Application Acceptance Service, effective Saturday, October 31, 2009, in order for staff to focus on providing core library services to patrons.

Bank of Hawaii Kailua Branch Manager Catherine Sato led the 'Get Smart About Credit' session, which focused on the fundamentals of wise credit use to about 25 high school juniors in the AVID program at Kailua High School.

Kona coffee belongs to a special breed of agricultural product. Hawai'i is the only coffee-growing region in the United States, and with its storied past Kona coffee has spawned an impressive number of estate farms of exceptional quality and global stature.

Tom Greenwell plucks a ripe, red piece of fruit from a century-old tree and squeezes the "cherry" into his palm, revealing two oval beans that, when processed and roasted, will produce some of the world's premium coffee.

The future of the Big Island's Kealakekua Public Library remained uncertain Thursday, even as the Board of Education considered a revised budget proposal.

While the state Board of Education considers closing or reducing hours of libraries, their patrons are trying to raise enough money to keep them open at normal hours.

The Friends of the Library of Hawaii and the Hawaii State Public Library System hope patrons will donate at least that amount to help keep open the state's public libraries.

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HILO - Hawaii County police have identified a pedestrian who died Friday after being hit by a car at a North Kona intersection.

WHEELWRIGHT, Ky.>> A sixth worker at a private women's prison in eastern Kentucky has been indicted on a sex-related charge.

Budget restrictions, hiring freezes and staffing shortages could lead to a temporary closure at the Lahaina Public Library, State Librarian Richard Burns is reporting today to a Board of Education committee.

The Hawai'i Public Library System may have to close some library branches intermittently and substantially pare back public service hours, but no libraries would be permanently closed, according to a $5.7 million budget reduction plan before the state Board of Education.

Maui businesswoman Joan McKelvey is upset about a proposal to close the Lahaina Public Library, because the next nearest library is more than 20 miles away in Wailuku.

Holding out billions of dollars as a potential windfall, the Obama administration is persuading state after state to rewrite education laws to open the door to more charter schools and expand the use of student test scores for judging teachers.

All islands except the Big Island received beneficial rain last night from former tropical depression Felicia but heavier showers could develop in the next 24 hours, the National Weather Service reported today.

Hawaii's Board of Education is pausing before deciding whether to approve the state librarian's proposal to close five branches, and residents of the affected areas are rightly angry about the plan.

Public library patrons are gathering petitions, writing lawmakers and e-mailing the Board of Education to try to avert the closure of five branches due to budget cuts.