It’s a long road to his goal of playing professionally, but former University of Hawaii at Hilo wing player Randan Berinobis got his first step in that direction last Saturday when he played for the Hawaii Swish in a 99-91 victory over the St. Louis Spirits on Oahu in an American Basketball League game.

Longtime coach and athletic administrator Bill Trumbo, who founded and developed the University of Hawaii at Hilo Hall of Fame, passed away Sunday under hospice care in Kona for advanced Alzheimer’s. He was 79.

You would excuse Kamehameha senior Pono Yanagi if he came back from his official college recruiting visit feeling like he just visited the center of the universe.

HONOKAA — It was a different world back then when Daphne Honma came home from college at a small school in Oregon and began to consider what she would do with the rest of her life.

If you eat and breathe baseball, maybe spend an hour or more every morning on the internet analyzing last night’s games and then a couple more hours at night, if it’s the only sport you truly care about, then you probably knew about Ryan Brasier.

Dean Edwards was just doing what he does, but when you make your living as a surfboard artist, the efforts can take you to places as wild as your imagination.

For a lot of Hilo people, it wasn’t just an occasional thing, it was a regular thing, part of the weekly routine in their lives, more common than a night at the movies.

Thanks to some heavy morning rains that brought moisture to the air, events of the day were a little off schedule at the annual Labor Day Alumni Basketball Tournament at Panaewa gym, and that included the winners of the championship game in the final event, the men’s open.

With apologies to folk singer Pete Seeger, a somber question hung in the historic air of the Hilo Armory over the weekend.

Those of us who grew up with baseball consuming big chunks of time in our childhood surely remember the pain.

We talk aloha a lot around here, what it means, why it’s the core of the culture, how to recognize it in your ohana and in others.

VOLCANO — They all heard the storm warnings, but before the Saturday rain came, the Kilauea summit area burst into bright morning sunshine for the ninth renewal of the Volcano Rainforest half marathon, 10 and 5K runs, with 60 yards of Kahili ginger blossoms festooning both sides of the finishing chute giving runners an attractive finish to the popular local run.

You would understand if there are moments these days when Randan Berinobis lapses into a daydream every once in a while.

He moved her, brightly, toward the ocean and one of his favorite spots, Richardson Ocean Park.

VOLCANO — Up here, people know about rock and roll and they cheer for it.

A long time ago in a land that seems far away, there was no internet, people didn’t carry around phones, smart ones or dumb ones. Television news was brief back then, 30 minutes around the dinner hour. There was no such thing as cable news, or even cable television.

The world is a different place when you live in Pahoa, luxuriating in proximity of the ocean by day, perhaps passing along some reverential thoughts to Pele before going to sleep at night.

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Everybody knew it was coming, but nobody really expected this.