Honokaa News

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SPECIAL TO NHN Janet Lindsey, left, and Penny Alcoran examine images and reminisce about the plantation days that they remember.

Big Island police are asking the public's help locating a 47-year-old Honokaa man reported missing late Tuesday.

The North Hawaii Community Hospital says it is only accepting new maternal care patients who live within a certain area to ease overcrowding, according to the hospital website.

A vigil was held Thursday night for two graduates of Honokaa High School who died in a vehicle crash Sunday.

Honokaa High School graduates were remembered at a candlelight vigil at the school Thursday night after the teens were killed in a car crash on Sunday.

SPECIAL TO NHN Odin Rudd grabs a toy horse during a riding lessons at Iolani Stables, one of the games played during the lessons.

The Honokaa School Alumni Ohana will hold a candlelight vigil will be held tonight in remembrance of three Honokaa High School graduates that recently passed away from traffic accidents.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources has closed the remote Muliwai Trail in North Kohala for public safety, effective yesterday through Friday May 11 and Monday May 14 through Thursday, May 17, while it conducts annual trail and campground maintenance and repair.

Hawaii County police arrested the drivers of a pickup truck and a Honda sedan in connection with an accident that killed two men Sunday in South Kohala.

Cezar Corpuz Agustin April 29, 2012 Cezar Corpuz Agustin, 76, of Honokaa, Hawaii, a vegetable farm worker in Waimea, Hawaii, died in North Hawaii Community Hospital.

PHOTO BY LISA MARIE DAHM, North Hawaii News Punahele Andrade chants as his halau performs at the Hamakua Youth Foundation Hula Festival, on April 21.

From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, two kumu hula will inspire visitors with the art of ancient hula at Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park.

Students from Honokaa High and Intermediate School's Agriculture and Hawaiian Dance and Language classes recently visited Ulu Mau Puanui on Kohala Mountain.