Honolulu Star - Bulletin back issues from March 2004:
Gone with the wind
Mar 01, 2004; ... face=+2; Insurance against hurricane losses continues to rise as companies heed two new isle-based risk modelsface=-2; Rates for hurricane insurance coverage from a number of Hawaii insurers have been on the upswing since last year. Although not all insurers have gotten the ...
Timeless tunes, zany story overcome minor glitches
Mar 01, 2004; ... One of the most difficult challenges for a composer is to write a simple but memorable popular tune. Writing a whole evening's worth of such tunes was the goal of the great operetta composers. Writing an operetta with tunes that still seem fresh a century after their composition was the singular ...
Kapolei class builta new mold
Mar 01, 2004; ... It has been almost 25 years since the island of Oahu has had a "first" graduating class. The last public school on record was Mililani High School in 1977. Now, more than two decades later, the chain has been broken. In two months, Kapolei High School will hold its first commencement ...
Flaming SUV freezesflights out of Kahului
Mar 01, 2004; ... A 52-year-old Haiku man set his sport utility vehicle on fire after driving it inside the Kahului Airport terminal yesterday morning, shutting down outgoing air service for more than nine hours. Maui police detectives and FBI agents arrested Paul Blatchley on suspicion of first-degree ...
Idled air travelers find ways to pass dreary hours
Mar 01, 2004; ... face=+2; As the airport reopens, airlines scramble to accommodate those who missed flightsface=-2; While federal and Maui officials investigated yesterday's automobile fire in the terminal of Kahului Airport, passengers had little to do but wait. Jillian Luis, a Kalaheo girls ...
Likelike Highwayfilled in for traffic
Mar 01, 2004; ... Crews finished filling a 20-foot-deep sinkhole on Likelike Highway yesterday, allowing the road to be opened last night in time for Monday morning traffic. City, state and civil defense officials were also dealing with other effects of a strong winter storm that drenched the island ...
Insurance reform bills hit workers' comp snag
Mar 01, 2004; ... Decisions by three Senate committee chairmen to delete workers' compensation cases from an administration bill to crack down on all forms of insurance fraud has provoked sharp criticism on the Senate floor. "The action today leaves me appalled, disappointed and angry," Sen. Sam Slom (R, ...
Constituents help determine new laws
Mar 01, 2004; ... Suppose you have an idea: If a production company films a movie in Hawaii with the help of substantial state tax breaks, then local residents should get to see that movie for free. Sounds good, others seem to like it. How do you get it into a bill for discussion at the ...
Haleiwa search comes up empty
Mar 01, 2004; ... face=+2; Police search the area for one of Hawaii's most wanted fugitivesface=-2; Federal and local law enforcement officials scoured Haleiwa yesterday for one of Hawaii's most wanted fugitives, who has several firearm and drug convictions. A U.S. Marshals Service employee said ...
Kauai band to join Tournament of Roses
Mar 01, 2004; ... LIHUE >> The Kauai All Island Ku Kilakila Band has been selected to march in the 2005 Tournament of Roses Parade, and organizers announced their first fund-raiser. The band is made up of high school and middle school musicians and hula dancers. About 250 youngsters have been signed ...
Assistant coach Barry leaves Wahine
Mar 01, 2004; ... Bob Barry has resigned as the assistant coach of the Hawaii women's soccer team. "The main reason for my resignation is a major difference in coaching philosophy between Pinsoom (Tenzing, UH head coach) and myself," said Barry, who coached the Willamete men's team the previous season ....
Sakata and Tokunaga provide offseason guidance
Mar 01, 2004; ... The baseball season never stops for Lenn Sakata. It is year-round with the offseason being even more important for the players. No longer can they afford to show up at spring training out of shape, either physically or skill-wise. This is why Sakata, beginning his fourth year ...
Iolani's Low goesout on top
Mar 01, 2004; ... Iolani's Derrick Low added a little crimson to his traditional white and red Raiders uniform in Saturday's night's 64-54 state basketball championship victory over Kalaheo. Crimson ... as in the main color in Washington State University's logo, which was stitched into his white ...
City not readyon landfill plan
Mar 01, 2004; ... The Honolulu City Council needs more than three months to decide where to put the next city landfill, Councilman Rod Tam says. Tam, chairman of the Public Works Committee, said last week he will ask the state Land Use Commission to extend its June 1 deadline for naming a landfill site ...
Long haul for Adams
Mar 02, 2004; ... It's been a rough 12 months for John Adams, but the former chairman and chief executive officer of face=+Bold; Hawaiian Airlinesface=-Bold; said he would recommend that the carrier be placed into bankruptcy if given the opportunity to do it all over again. In spite of the indignity of ...
American Idol doll
Mar 02, 2004; ... face=+2; Get heard{face=-2; Flex those finger muscles and make sure your speed-dialer is working if you plan on casting your vote for this week's batch of "American Idol" contenders. Hawaii contestant Jasmine Trias and each of the other "Idol" contenders tonight will be assigned ...
Friends defendairport arsonist
Mar 02, 2004; ... Friends and acquaintances of a man who drove a sport utility vehicle into Kahului Airport and set the vehicle on fire Sunday said he was despondent about life and needed help. Paul Blatchley, 52, of Haiku, was arrested and charged yesterday with first-degree attempted murder and ...
'Little angel' charmedfolks with big heart
Mar 02, 2004; ...[Sidebar] face=+2; In memory of Charlotte{face=-2; A special fund has been set up at City Bank to help the Schaefers family with expenses. Please make out check donations to: Friends of Allison Schaefers, c/o City Bank, P.O. Box 3709, Honolulu, HI 96811. Donations ...
Families criticalof Navy aboutcatchment basin
Mar 02, 2004; ... Some families in the Pearl City Peninsula Naval Housing neighborhood where 5-year-old Charlotte Schaefers drowned Saturday are criticizing the U.S. Navy for not fencing off a rain catchment basin. Soaking rains flooded the catch basin starting on Friday, turning it into a deep, muddy ...
Potholes forcingcars to limp infor repairs
Mar 02, 2004; ... Business at several Oahu repair shops has jumped because of tires damaged by potholes created by last week's storms. "I had three people come in on Saturday," said Dino Botelho, owner of D.J.'s Tire Service and Repair Inc. in Waipahu. "There was one that needed four new ...
Adams knocks againon Hawaiian Air's door
Mar 02, 2004; ... Eight years ago an investment group led by John Adams pumped $20 million into ailing Hawaiian Airlines to keep the struggling carrier flying. Now, Adams and the same investment group, AIP LLC, are prepared to make a $30 million investment for 50 percent ownership of the carrier as they ...
Tears flow atMarines' departure
Mar 02, 2004; ... The commotion of people saying farewell and bags being loaded on buses in the Kaneohe Marine Station parking lot last night was distracting for 2-year-old Dominic and 1-year-old Franklin. But Mama had tears in her eyes, and that's where their eyes kept returning. Sgt. Michelle ...
62 in Guard headed for Afghanistan
Mar 02, 2004; ... face=+2; A helicopter repair unit will leave Hawaii later this springface=-2; Sixty-two members of the Hawaii Army National Guard's helicopter maintenance unit have been alerted for duty in Afghanistan later this spring. Last week, members of Bravo Company of the Hawaii Army ...
Campaign spending watchdog gets OK to testify
Mar 02, 2004; ... face=+2; The state comptroller reverses his position on Watada appearing before the Legislatureface=-2; Bob Watada, executive director of the Campaign Spending Commission, says the state has reversed its position, allowing him to testify before the Legislature without prior permission ...
Carlisle survives motion in murder trial
Mar 02, 2004; ... face=+2; A judge rules that Peter Carlisle can try Christopher Akiface=-2; A state Circuit Court judge denied a defense motion yesterday seeking to disqualify Prosecutor Peter Carlisle from the Kahealani Indreginal murder case because the city post is an elected position. Deputy ...
Tips could curb isles' 10 annual crib deaths
Mar 01, 2004; ... The number of sleep-related infant deaths in Hawaii has dropped from 26 in 1992 to an average of 10 annually, but one is too many, the Safe Sleep Hawaii committee emphasizes. Sleep-related injuries are the leading cause of injury-related deaths among Hawaii infants and the third leading ...
SAT-prep scholarships target low-income students
Mar 01, 2004; ... College Connections Hawaii is offering scholarships to low- and moderate-income students so they can take SAT prep courses to improve their scores on the most popular college entrance exam in the state. "One hundred points on the SAT makes a big difference in college options," said Wren ...
'Bows send offseniors in style
Mar 01, 2004; ... Senior Day for the Hawaii basketball team went as close to the script as the Rainbow Warriors could have hoped. The Rainbows treated the Stan Sheriff Center crowd of 7,627 to a convincing 91-77 victory over Rice in a key Western Athletic Conference showdown yesterday afternoon, setting ...
Dons defeat UHfor first series win
Mar 01, 2004; ... San Francisco made good use of its scoring opportunities. Hawaii squandered too many of its scoring chances. That was the difference yesterday in the nonconference-series finale, as the Dons (5-7) won their first series of the season with the 7-4 victory before 829 fans at Murakami ...
Rainbows host tourney early
Mar 01, 2004; ... The Citadel, Chicago State and Oregon State provide the opposition for the First Hawaii Title Rainbow Baseball Tournament tomorrow through Saturday at Murakami Stadium. This is the 29th edition of the tournament that has been played every year since 1975 with the exception of 1982. The ...
Maui victim accused of indecent exposure
Mar 02, 2004; ... face=+2; Witnesses say that the man who was shot by police had exposed himself to childrenface=-2; KIHEI, Maui >> A Maui police officer who fatally shot a man at a Kihei beach had been called to the area because of a report of a man indecently exposing himself to children, a ...
Feds charge 2 men with intent to distribute 'ice'
Mar 02, 2004; ... The U.S. attorney's office charged two men yesterday with intent to distribute crystal methamphetamine after police seized "ice," $15,680 in cash, a handgun and receipts for thousands of dollars. Police stopped Walter Cacho for a traffic violation in Hale- iwa on Jan. 15 after he left ...
Youth prison crowding is topic of forum
Mar 02, 2004; ... The Hawaii Juvenile Justice Project will hold a public forum from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Neal Blaisdell Center to address overcrowding and other concerns about the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility. National juvenile justice experts Sue Burrell, of the Youth Law Center, and Dan ...
Reserves coming up big
Mar 02, 2004; ... Hawaii's role players have been playing more than bit parts in the Rainbow Warriors' fortunes late in the Western Athletic Conference basketball season. Over the past three weeks, the Rainbows received significant contributions from players who spend most of the week on the scout team in ...
Hawaii officialsfavor addition ofa fifth BCS bowl game
Mar 02, 2004; ... face=+2; Frazier says the football team 'could lobby for such a game' if the Warriors run the tableface=-2; News that the Bowl Championship Series will likely add a fifth game in 2006 -- creating more opportunity and potential financial rewards for so-called mid-major schools and ...
UH travels to face Matadors
Mar 02, 2004; ...[Sidebar] face=+2; MPSF men's volleyball{face=-2; face=+Bold; Whoface=-Bold; : Hawaii (11-3, 8-2) at CSU Northridge (11-6, 6-5).face=+Bold; Whenface=-Bold; : Tomorrow and Friday, 5 p.m. Hawaii time.face=+Bold; Whereface=-Bold; : The Matadome (1,600), Northridge, ...
Radford repeats in OIA cheerleading
Mar 02, 2004; ...[Sidebar] face=+2; OIA Championship{face=-2; face=+Bold; At Radford H.S. Gymface=-Bold; Note: The top eight teams qualify for the State competition to be held March 13 at Stan Sheriff Center.face=+Bold; Varsityface=-Bold; face=+Bold; Following qualified for State ...
Raiders No. 1, but Warriors climb to No. 5
Mar 02, 2004; ... Hawaii's best high school basketball teams were at the state tournament last week, so it made the Star-Bulletin top 10 media poll voters' job a bit easier. Head-to-head competition is a more efficient way of comparing teams from various islands than judging them on their scores and ...
Record month, again
Mar 03, 2004; ... Oahu home resale prices set another record in February, reaching a single-family median of $410,000, but even as inventory shrinks and prices push higher, real estate agents continue to say potential buyers are not yet priced out of the market. "Even with the limited availability of ...
GAO report cites Norwegian's isle cruise 'monopoly'
Mar 03, 2004; ... face=+2; But the report also says the cruise line's federal exemption won't allow it to capitalize unfairlyface=-2; face=+Bold; Norwegian Cruise Lineface=-Bold; has a flag up on its competition in Hawaii, but a special exemption that allows it to bypass foreign ports won't allow it to ...
HMSA reports$47M net income
Mar 03, 2004; ... In a nearly $90 million turnaround, the state's largest health insurer, Hawaii Medical Service Association, said yesterday it finished 2003 with a net income of $47 million. In 2002, the company reported $41 million in losses. HMSA, which earlier this year asked the state for permission ...
Women warnedagainst estrogen
Mar 03, 2004; ... About 11,000 women taking estrogen in a national study, including 143 in Hawaii, have been told to stop taking the pills because of an increased risk of stroke. Findings of the estrogen-only trial were similar to those in a companion study of women taking estrogen plus progestin, the ...
City slogging throughsewage overflows
Mar 03, 2004; ... Kailua resident Eric Poland drove over a small fountain of dark water that shot out of a manhole on Kailua Road near the Kailua Beach Center about 6 a.m. yesterday. Then he smelled it. "I didn't know what it was at first. Then I smelled it and I knew," said Poland. "It seems like ...
Family says city sewer system is a stinker
Mar 03, 2004; ... When Foster Village residents Susan and Bernard Bisch hear the heavy rain, they sleep with one eye open, one ear open -- and their noses wide open. On Friday, their house was hit with the third sewage backflow in the past three months. "It's definitely frustrating," said ...
Hawaii's 18% carpooling rate is best in nation
Mar 03, 2004; ... face=+2; The Census Bureau also rates the state seventh for workers' use of public transitface=-2; Hawaii leads the nation in carpooling -- with 18 percent of the islands' workers sharing a ride to work, according to a Census Bureau analysis of commuter habits. The national ...
Feds charge suspect in airport fire
Mar 03, 2004; ... face=+2; Paul Blatchley drove an SUV into the Maui Airport and torched itface=-2; Federal prosecutors are seeking to hold without bail a Maui man accused of driving his roommate's sport utility vehicle into the Kahului Airport terminal Sunday and setting the vehicle ablaze. Paul ...
Forecasters say wind blast caused damage on Big Isle
Mar 03, 2004; ... SOUTH KONA, Hawaii >> Straight line downburst winds traveling up to 90 mph -- not a tornado -- damaged a three-mile swath of South Kona late Friday night, the National Weather Service has determined. "It's just as bad or more devastating than a tornado," said weather service ...
Camera theft imperils school's newspaper
Mar 03, 2004; ... face=+2; This is the second theft in a week at Waialua High and Intermediateface=-2; In the past three years, The Waialuan has grown from a photocopied, stapled newsletter into a "real" newspaper that just won a statewide award and attracts readers beyond the campus of Waialua High and ...
Ruling puts school bonds in jeopardy
Mar 03, 2004; ... face=+2; Fear of lawsuits after a high court decision is hurting bond salesface=-2; A state Supreme Court ruling last month that threw out a proposed constitutional amendment could also halt state bond sales that fund construction at private schools. Though the amendment ...
City buys time on TV for Harris to discuss budget
Mar 03, 2004; ... The city is paying $3,200 for 30 minutes of television air time so Mayor Jeremy Harris can outline his proposals for next fiscal year's city budget. "(The public) needs as much information as possible so they can understand how their money is being used," city spokeswoman Carol Costa ...
Officials urge veto override for Best Buy store
Mar 03, 2004; ... face=+2; The Council had OK'd a zoning change for a Pearl City building siteface=-2; Two City Council members are calling for an override of Mayor Jeremy Harris' veto of a zoning change for a planned Best Buy store near the waterfront in Pearl City. "We support Best Buy, but ...
Autopsy set in Maui shooting
Mar 03, 2004; ... WAILUKU >> An autopsy is scheduled today on a man fatally shot by police after he allegedly sprayed a chemical agent at a police officer. The man, Charles Benson Ogden, 48, formerly of Oklahoma, was shot on the beach about 150 yards south of Lipoa Street, Maui police acting Lt ....
Giuliani will speak at Lingle fund-raiser
Mar 03, 2004; ... Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will be the guest speaker at a $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser for Gov. Linda Lingle March 20 at the J.W. Marriott Ihilani Resort and Spa at Ko Olina. Lingle, who has been hosted by Giuliani at events in New York, is one of the GOP's top money-raisers ....
Worker dies when grader backs over him
Mar 03, 2004; ... WAIKOLOA RESORT, Hawaii >> A Big Island construction worker was killed yesterday when he was run over by a grader at a residential construction site, police said. The victim, identified as Gordon Cagampang, 48, of Kailua-Kona, was working at the Kolea condominium and townhouse ...
Hawaiian cultural icon defended giant tree
Mar 03, 2004; ... face=+2; SARAH KAILIKEA / 1911-2004face=-2; LIHUE >> Aunty Sarah Kailikea will be buried at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Lihue Cemetery in what may be one of the largest funerals in the history of Kauai. A living connection to Kauai's history and a cultural icon in the Hawaiian ...
'Bows' goalsstill in sight
Mar 03, 2004; ...[Sidebar] face=+2; UH at Nevada{face=-2; face=+Bold; Whenface=-Bold; : Tomorrow, 5:05 p.m.face=+Bold; Whereface=-Bold; : Lawlor Events Centerface=+Bold; TVface=-Bold; : Noneface=+Bold; Radioface=-Bold; : Live, KKEA 1420 AMface=+Bold; Internetface=-Bold; : ...
Seeking redemption
Mar 03, 2004; ... While 10 other girls celebrated Interscholastic League of Honolulu wrestling championships last weekend, 130-pound champion Jazmine Cockett had only one thing on her mind. Redemption. The two-time state runner-up tries for the final time to win that elusive title at the Chevron ...
Iolani AD Hiramoto announces retirement
Mar 03, 2004; ... face=+2; After five years in the position, she says she wants to move onface=-2; Iolani athletic director Judy Hiramoto is going out a champion. Hiramoto, 56, announced her retirement yesterday, three days after the Raiders won their third state basketball championship in a ...
UH takes on woeful Wolf Pack
Mar 03, 2004; ...[Sidebar] face=+2; Wahine basketball{face=-2; face=+Bold; Whoface=-Bold; : Nevada at Hawaiiface=+Bold; Whenface=-Bold; : Tomorrow, 7 p.m.face=+Bold; Whereface=-Bold; : Stan Sheriff Centerface=+Bold; TVface=-Bold; : Live, KFVE (Ch. 5)face=+Bold; Radioface=-Bold; : ...
Waianae project teaches youths the value of farming
Mar 03, 2004; ...[Sidebar] face=+2; Buy organic{face=-2; Produce from the Mala 'Ai 'Opio organic farm can be found at these locations: Mini-farmers' markets: Noon to 1 p.m. Wednesdays at Kaiser Permanente clinic in Nanakuli, Waianae Coast Comprehensive Care Center and Leeward ...
Rains thrash South Kohala, upland Maui
Mar 02, 2004; ... Just as officials around the state took stock of damage caused by severe storms over the weekend, a new burst of rain yesterday pounded the normally arid South Kohala coast of the Big Island. "It's raining cats and dogs, rhinos and elephants," said Fairmont Orchid Hawaii resort ...
Vocals lend wings to musical weighted by anachronisms
Mar 02, 2004; ... Strong vocal performances by three leads and a secondary performer are the brightest facets in Army Community Theatre's revival of "Kiss Me, Kate." >> Buz Tennent (Fred Graham/Petruchio) and Cathy Foy (Lilli Vanessi/Kate) mesh as the bickering couple for whom a production of ...
Hawaiian's trustee, creditors want to pick plan
Mar 04, 2004; ... face=+2; The bankrupt airline's Gotbaum and unsecured creditors plan to file a motion today seeking to select the winning reorganization offer for the carrierface=-2; face=+Bold; Hawaiian Airlinesface=-Bold; trustee Joshua Gotbaum and an unsecured creditors' committee are expected to ...
Lingle battles Democratson education reform plan
Mar 03, 2004; ... Democrats in the state Legislature are "playing politics" with the educational future of public school students, Gov. Linda Lingle charged yesterday. The Republican governor renewed her campaign to dismantle the centralized state Department of Education and chop up the single statewide ...
Ameron, concreteworkers sit down
Mar 03, 2004; ... Ameron Hawaii and Teamsters officials negotiated yesterday for only the second time since the company's 140 concrete workers went on strike nearly a month ago. Though neither side met face to face, they communicated by way of federal mediator Ken Kawamoto at the Teamsters' Hart Street ...