Big Island Pop Warner football cancels season
To play or not to play?
Ex-UHH women’s basketball star: ‘Bullying’ prompted transfer; coach, AD support program’s chemistry
Allie Navarette, the record-setting UH-Hilo women’s basketball player, claimed her experience of “treatment from teammates that only got worse” led to her decision to transfer to Metropolitan State University in Denver.
Two new COVID-19 cases bring statewide case total to 900
The state Department of Health reported two new COVID-19 cases today, bringing the statewide total to 900.
Now a Disney VP, St. Joe alum Mills still a great sport
Before he became a vice president for Disneyland Resorts and Aulani at Ko Olina on Oahu and a Kamehameha Schools trustee, Elliot Mills was an all-around student-athlete at St. Joseph, where he sharpened his greatest gift.
Contact tracing leads to identification of new COVID-19 cases
A spike in COVID-19 case numbers on Sunday were largely due to a cluster of 17 Honolulu cases all associated with attending a funeral. Intensive contact tracing identified the cases quickly, testing was conducted, and all are in isolation. Contact tracing also identified six cases in Leeward Oahu associated with known clusters, and all of the cases are in isolation.
World hits coronavirus milestones amid fears worse to come
ROME — The world surpassed two sobering coronavirus milestones Sunday — 500,000 confirmed deaths, 10 million confirmed cases — and hit another high mark for daily new infections as governments that attempted reopenings continued to backtrack and warn that worse news could be yet to come.
Commissioners at odds over Kealakehe sewer plant
A delay in design plans for the $75 million Kealakehe Wastewater Treatment Plant frustrated members of the county Environmental Management Commission, who grilled the administration Wednesday about why the county can’t simply stop illegal discharges altogether.
Trump’s lack of empathy is pathological
Picture, if you will, four Russian nesting dolls, each roosting inside another. Imagine the largest figurine is of President Donald Trump, and gestating inside are dolls representing the civil rights crisis, inside a financial disaster, inside the coronavirus pandemic.
While task force members urge more testing, Trump sows confusion
With a “disturbing surge of infections” in coronavirus cases nationwide, Dr. Tony Fauci testified before Congress last Tuesday that the next two weeks will be critical in controlling the spread.
Big Isle nursing homes still virus free
Clusters of COVID-19 have been found in nursing homes on Oahu, but the Big Island’s long-term care facilities have so far remained free of the disease and are continuing their efforts to keep it out.
Rainy Side View: Great? Yes. Great American? No
We missed our annual celebration of Kamehameha Day, an official state holiday on June 11 established in 1871 by Kamehameha V, grandson of Kamehameha I. It’s a big day in Hawaii, with parades, lei-draping ceremonies and ho‘olaule‘a, but this year due to the pandemic, all events were canceled.
