Koloa News

LIHUE, Hawaii - The Salvation Army says the highlight of its bellringing campaign in Hawaii this year was the donation of a gold coin with an estimated value of $1,200. Division commander Maj.

Kauai County has extended registration for its Winter Fun Program. The deadline to apply is 4 p.m. Tuesday at the following neighborhood centers: Hanapepe; Kapa'a; Koloa; and Lihu'e. The cost for enrollment is $30 per child.

Lenore Klass of Koloa, Kaua'i, is the Hawai'i representative for the 2010 Pillsbury Bake-Off for which the grand prize is $1 million plus high-end cooking appliances.

LIHU'E, Kaua'i - A long-awaited dredging project on Kaua'i has bogged down in permitting issues, leaving Kikiaola Small Boat Harbor all but unusable to the more than 100 recreational boaters and 18 commercially permitted fishing or tour boats it serves.

There are waiting lists for Thanksgiving food packages at the Lihu'e and Hanapepe Salvation Army offices.

Some have been anticipating this for nearly a quarter of a century, others have been dreading it, while still others just aren't sure.

The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded a $22.5 million design contract, part of $121 million in federal stimulus funds, to modernize and renovate the Prince Kuhio Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, agency officials said.

A wind advisory remains in effect for Niihau, the windward and leeward slopes of Kauai and the mountain areas.

KOLOA - A public information meeting regarding the proposed construction of a roadway segment that would connect the two Koloa bypass roads is scheduled for Thursday, Kauai County announced today.

WAIMEA, Kauai>> The sugar workers bringing in the last harvest at centuries-old Gay & Robinson had tears in their eyes, but this time it was not from the smoke and burning caramel smell that accompanies cane processing.

When the economy began to sour last year, Clinton and Aimee Hinchcliff came up with an unofficial company motto: "Listen to or generate 100 new ideas and pick one to try a day." Their Big Island-based construction company, Hinchcliff Drywall Construction , had been enjoying a steady stream of jobs throughout the almost 10 years they have been in ...

LIHUE - A Koloa man facing multiple counts of animal cruelty involving several dogs and puppies at his home, pleaded not guilty yesterday and requested a jury trial.

Stefania Pomponi Butler , Gina von Esmarch , and Abi Jones and I were sitting around a table at the BlogHer Food cocktail party Saturday night when discussion turned to Hawaii and shave ice.

KALAHEO, Kaua'i - After nine years of development and up to $5 million invested, a Kaua'i company is making rum from locally grown sugar cane.

My main employment story this morning is Gay & Robinson. The Robinson family, which owns the island of Niihau, has been growing sugar on Kauai since 1892, and the operation kind of dates back even further than that, to Ladd & Company at Koloa in the 1830s.

LIHU'E, Kaua'i - Gay & Robinson Inc. expects to process the last of its sugar cane by late October, several months ahead of the previously announced closure date, the company's president announced yesterday.

Two men were critically injured in a three-car crash yesterday afternoon in Koloa.

Much of Kaua'i was without electricity for about a half-hour yesterday afternoon after a generating unit failed.

Numismatists and auctioneers will be hard at work on Labor Day whilst we chill and grill -- as they congregate to corral coins and currency of rare Hawaiian vintage.

A pedestrian struck by a pickup truck Sunday night in 'Oma'o was in stable condition yesterday at Wilcox Hospital.