BIIF track and field: Led by Satta-Ellis, Hanks, Konawaena makes its mark
KEALAKEKUA – Led by Ro’o Satta-Ellis and Caiya Hanks, Konawaena had a banner day Saturday afternoon on the track at Julian Yates Field.
Baseball: Vulcans show power stroke, win finale at Biola
Rare is the game that UH-Hilo’s baseball team hits three home run, but Joe Gallagher, Jaryn Kanbara and Joshua Fuentes on Saturday gave coach Kallen Miyataki a luxury.
Cartoon for March 20
The Big Island as seen by Hawaii Tribune-Herald cartoonist Gary Hoff.
Kona man arrested in large drug bust
Police arrested a 46-year-old Kealakekua man on following an execution of a narcotics search warrant at a residence.
Russians push deeper into Mariupol as locals plead for help
LVIV, Ukraine — Russian forces pushed deeper into Ukraine’s besieged and battered port city of Mariupol on Saturday, where heavy fighting shut down a major steel plant and local authorities pleaded for more Western help.
Beneath the surface: $1.29M grant funding study of lava tube ecosystems
University of Hawaii researchers have received more than a million dollars from the federal government to study the ecosystems within the Big Island’s lava tubes.
Bills diminishing neighbor island political clout die in House
Two Senate measures that would have concentrated more legislative power on Oahu at the expense of the neighbor islands were shut down last week in their first House committee.
‘He was still a good person’: Family opens up about slain man as police ID two suspects
Less than a month after Albert Aukai Manners was reported missing on Dec. 1, 2020, his family suspected he had been murdered.
Rent relief program to continue: Federal money will allow county to help low-income renters for three more years
A program providing rental relief to those affected by the pandemic could continue into mid-2025.
Understaffing leaves after-school programs with unmet demand
The return to classrooms for the nation’s schoolchildren has not meant a return to work for many of their parents who, with workdays that outlast school days, are finding crucial after-school programs in short supply.
Sewer work to impact traffic on Kinoole Street
The county Department of Environmental Management has announced a single-lane closure on Kinoole Street in downtown Hilo on Tuesday between Ponahawai Street and Alenaio Lane.
Meeting set to discuss skate park
The county Department of Parks and Recreation on Thursday will host a meeting about the Hilo Skate Park.
China reports first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year
BEIJING (AP) — China’s health authorities reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first since January 2021, as the country battles its worst outbreak in two years driven by a surge in the highly transmissible omicron variant.
Firefighters gain ground on Texas wildfires on Saturday
EASTLAND, Texas (AP) — Fire crews in Texas made progress Saturday against a massive complex of wildfires that have killed a deputy sheriff and burned at least 50 homes, officials said.
Rep. Don Young, longtime Alaska congressman, dies at 88
JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska Rep. Don Young, who was the longest-serving Republican in the history of the U.S. House, has died. He was 88.
Obituaries for March 20
The Rev. John W. Beardsley, 91, of Hilo died Feb. 6 at the Hale Anuenue Restorative Care Center. Born in Choteau, Mont., he was a retired pastor for the former Trinity Community Assembly of God and Pepeekeo Assembly of God, secretary for the Hawaii Assemblies of God District and a graduate of Laupahoehoe High School and Northwest Bible School. Visitation 1-2 p.m. Saturday (March 26) at The House Hilo, 2282 Kanoelehua Ave. Celebration of life at 2 p.m. Casual attire. Survived by wife, Betty Beardsley; children, Keith (Joanie) Beardsley, Janice (Terry) Neumann and Lisa (John) Tipsword; brothers, Frances (Karla) Beardsley and Raymond (Glenda) Beardsley; 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Guantanamo clients an issue for GOP
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee will face sharp questions from Republican lawmakers this coming week about the work she did as a public defender representing four Guantanamo Bay detainees.
US lawmakers visit Poland, urge help for Ukraine military
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A bipartisan delegation of U.S. lawmakers visiting Poland said Saturday that the most urgent need in Ukraine’s fight against a Russian invasion is to equip and support the country in every way that will help it defend its independence.
Not all propaganda aims to persuade
When Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’s denazifying Ukraine, he no doubt expects some people, in Russia and abroad, to believe him. Many in the West and on the international stage have expressed bewilderment at these claims. But this does not mean his propaganda strategy is failing. He is engaging in “hard propaganda,” which is meant to convey the speaker’s power — not persuade.
Embracing an institutional inspection
When I was in college and my parents were going to come to visit, I always embarked on a frenzy of housecleaning. My friends and I would laugh about how getting the apartment or house “mom and dad clean” was a little more challenging than just tidying up. Not that our parents would go around with a white glove looking for dust above the door frames or anything like that, thank goodness, but we always envisioned our parents’ homes being much cleaner than our own. We would do the dishes, put away the laundry, dust and vacuum. I’ll admit we usually did not go so far as to scrub the floors, but we would tackle the bathroom! Would they have loved us less if the apartment was a mess? No, but we wanted to demonstrate that we were responsible adults; we wanted their approval.
