Honolulu Star - Bulletin back issues from February 2007:
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL - Pico comes through as Molokai wins opener
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Division II State Softballface=-Bold; In its first trip to the state softball tournament in school history last year, Molokai wasn't able to win a game. Senior Deisha Pico made sure this year wouldn't be the same. Pico broke a 1-1 tie with a two-out RBI ...
Wind lashes Windward side
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Gusts that reach 55 mph blow roofs and trees and lead to power failures for about 30,000face=-Bold; A houseboat adrift in Kaneohe Bay. More branches blowing onto power lines. Entire trees on their side. Pieces of roofs -- and a whole carport -- flying through the ...
Dance teacher faces more assault charges
Feb 01, 2007; ... A former Aiea dance teacher who denies having any sexual contact with two female students is now facing a second trial. Daniel Jones went on trial yesterday in Circuit Judge Virginia Crandall's courtroom, charged with two counts of first-degree assault and four counts of third-degree ...
Union's trustees say assets are secure
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; A hearing on the sudden trusteeship of Local 368 will be held in 30 daysface=-Bold; Assets of the roughly 4,000-member Hawaii unit of the Laborers' International Union of North America appear intact despite signs of significant mismanagement that has spurred an emergency ...
Maui firefighters contain blaze
Feb 01, 2007; ... KULA, Maui » On a muddy road cutting through burned pines and cypress along the slopes of Haleakala, state forestry resource official Lance De Silva looks for signs of danger, such as weakened tree trunks and barely-hanging tree limbs firefighters call "widow makers." "They call them ...
The Star-Bulletin celebrates a milestone birthday
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Hawaii's oldest continuously published daily newspaper, turns 125 todayface=-Bold; Happy birthday to us! The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Hawaii's oldest continuously published daily newspaper, turns 125 today. The very first Bulletin was a single page, four columns wide, ...
2,700-acre Waikoloa brush fire is reduced to flare-ups
Feb 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; The Big Island blaze is mostly contained, an official saysface=-Bold; WAIKOLOA, Hawaii » Firefighters continued to mop up remnants of a 2,700-acre brush and grassland fire above Waikoloa in West Hawaii yesterday, Big Island Fire Chief Darryl Oliveira said. A ...
The art of war
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; An exhibit displaying wearable items with a propaganda motif comes to the Academy of Artsface=-Bold; IAGO MIGHT HAVE claimed to wear his heart on his sleeve, and the Trojans might have invented the modern printed T-shirt by branding "PROPERTY OF USC" on their PE gear, but ...
Bill aims to cool schools
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; A Senate committee approves a measure providing $40 million for air conditioningface=-Bold; The state Department of Education would get $40 million over the next two years to air-condition public schools and move toward energy efficiency at campuses statewide under a bill ...
Adasa launches e-Concept
Feb 01, 2007; ... These are challenging times for retailers confronted by a proliferation of storefronts -- on the street and in cyberspace. Adasa has just leaped ahead of the competition with the opening of the Adasa e-Concept Boutique, combining the personal pampering associated with luxury boutiques ...
SHOPPING - Seeing red at Macy's
Feb 01, 2007 ... Macy's, a sponsor of National Wear Red Day tomorrow, is inviting all of Honolulu to don red for the day, whether in the form of a favorite red T-shirt, red lipstick, tie or handbag, in support of the American Heart Association and heart disease prevention. The first 100 in red entering ...
Scientists seeking neutrinos
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; A balloon scours Antarctica for particles that could help unlock the universe's originsface=-Bold; A SCIENTIFIC balloon designed to make the first-ever measurements of high-energy neutrinos has completed a 35-day flight over Antarctica, said University of Hawaii professor ...
Rancher is held in Big Isle pot operation
Feb 01, 2007; ... HILO » Big Island resident David Finley, 64, was ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail yesterday on 14 charges related to a large marijuana growing operation at his home near Volcano village. A preliminary hearing was set for 10 a.m. tomorrow in Puna District Court following Finley's ...
House OKs $30M for Legislature
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Republicans fail in a try to cut $2 million from the House's operational budgetface=-Bold; State House lawmakers have given final approval to a $30 million operational budget for the Legislature and affiliated agencies. The budget, up from $27.3 million last year, ...
Kamaile seeks charter conversion
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; School officials hope the change will help deal with rising enrollmentface=-Bold; Waianae's Kamaile Elementary School wants to become a charter school, hoping the change will help it deal with an enrollment spurt and meet strict demands set by the No Child Left Behind ...
Art illuminates conservation
Feb 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; Student drawings draw attention to low-energy fluorescent bulbsface=-Bold; THREE students came up with "A Bright and Colorful Idea" in illustrating that fluorescent light bulbs far outshine regular ones in a contest, sponsored by Hawaiian Electric Co. and General ...
RAINBOW BASEBALL - Outfield 2-fer paying off for UH
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Junior college teammates Haislet and Zimny are still together, and looked good in their debutsface=-Bold; There's a difference between a natural athlete and a natural hitter. Hawaii has one of each in center fielder Brandon Haislet and right fielder Evan ...
RAINBOW WARRIOR VOLLEYBALL - Service errors doom UH at UCLA
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Hawaii serves up 27 misses in a four-game loss at Pauleyface=-Bold; LOS ANGELES » Faith and doubt cannot co-exist. Neither can service errors and victory. No. 9 Hawaii committed 27 errors from the service line in falling to No. 8 UCLA 30-25, 33-31, 28-30, ...
Hospitals' union irate over staff 'surprise'
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; It threatens legal action against the buyer of two St. Francis hospitalsface=-Bold; Calling it a "complete surprise," the head of a union representing 500 employees at the former St. Francis hospitals has threatened to take legal action against the facilities' new owner over ...
COLLEGE FOOTBAL - Fehoko headed to Texas Tech
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Red Raiders coach Leach did magic tricks and the haka on a home visitface=-Bold; Mike Leach worked his magic, and Texas Tech has its first recruit ever from the islands. The Red Raiders football coach visited the home of Sam Fehoko on Tuesday night, and yesterday, ...
Developers dreaming of helping seniors
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; A trio of baby boomers is building apartments in Wahiawa for isle seniorsface=-Bold; A few dozen low-income seniors, with fixed incomes vulnerable to escalating rents and mortgages, will soon have another housing option thanks to a tax-credit-assisted project that is coming ...
HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER - Kapolei wins on PKs, joins boys in finals
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; OIA Girls Soccer Semifinalsface=-Bold; Kapolei lived up to its end of the bargain last night. The Hurricanes pulled out a 2-1 win over previously unbeaten Mililani on penalty kicks in the Oahu Interscholastic Association girls soccer semifinals at Moanalua. They join ...
Haas quits as chief of tourism marketing
Feb 01, 2007; ... Frank Haas, vice president of marketing for the Hawaii Tourism Authority, said yesterday he is resigning from the state's tourism marketing arm. Haas is taking a job as an instructor at the University of Hawaii's School of Travel Industry Management and will help the school develop new ...
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL - Mililani routs Campbell
Feb 01, 2007 ... Scott Burns scored a game-high 19 points, including two second-half 3-pointers, and the Mililani defense helped the Trojans pull away from Campbell and remain undefeated in OIA West play with a 62-46 win. The Trojans shut down Mike Makinano, holding the Sabers' top scorer to only nine ...
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL - Kailua rallies on Waipahu's errors
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Division I State Softballface=-Bold; A pitcher hates to be pulled out of a game, especially in the early going. But it was Kailua head coach Bernard Victor's decision to pull his starter, Ashley-Ann Hopfe, after she allowed three runs in just a third of an ...
DIVISION II STATE SOFTBALL - Pine Lasses arrive in style
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Datahouse/HHSAA State Softball Championshipsface=-Bold; face=+Bold; Division IIface=-Bold; face=+Bold; Seeds: 1. Sacred Hearts; 2. Kauai; 3. Kahuku; 4. KS-Hawaiiface=-Bold; face=+Bold; All remaining games at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadiumface=-Bold; ...
HAWAII GROWN REPORT - Walking on Cloud 9
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+2; Kimi Daniel's Career Statisticsface=-2; face=+Bold; Dreams come true for Kimi Daniel and Jessica Maielua's, who walked on at Portland Stateface=-Bold; Kimi Daniel and Jessica Maielua took a chance their freshman year and tried out for the Portland State women's ...
Kamehameha plans North Shore changes
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The trust is re-evaluating its property, taking public comment and preparing to draft a planface=-Bold; KAMEHAMEHA Schools, the state's largest private landowner, is re-evaluating the future of roughly 26,000 acres of land it owns on Oahu's North Shore. The $6 ...
Injured woman sues 'Dog,' A&E
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The "Bounty Hunter" posse allegedly threw her down some stairsface=-Bold; A woman is suing Duane "Dog" Chapman and the Arts and Entertainment Television network after one of Chapman's bounty hunting pack allegedly threw her down a flight of stairs during filming of an ...
3 Hawaii levees make national danger list
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The problems pose no peril and should be fixed by April, officials sayface=-Bold; Three flood-control levees, one on Oahu and two on Kauai, have not been maintained properly and are included on a national list of levees in danger of failing, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...
CINEMA - At The Movies
Feb 02, 2007 ... face=+2; Openingface=-2; face=+Bold; Because I Said So 1/2face=-Bold; Diane Keaton plays a well-intentioned but meddling mother on a mission to find Mr. Right for her youngest unmarried daughter (Mandy Moore). Review on Page 27. (PG-13) face=+Bold; The ...
ON STAGE - Comical culture
Feb 02, 2007; ... The UH-Manoa theater program excels at traditional east Asian productions in which the dialogue is in English, but the costumes, staging and actors' performances come as close as possible to what would be seen in China or Japan. face=+Bold; 'Kyogen: Timeless Comedy'face=-Bold; ...
Police fire up 911 cell phone locator
Feb 02, 2007; ... Lost? Stranded out at sea? Kidnapped? If you have a cell phone on you, emergency responders can now pinpoint your location. The Honolulu Police Department showed off yesterday its renovated communications division, outfitted with wide-screen monitors, adjustable ergonomic seating and ...
Manoa school keeps its sixth-graders
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Sixth-graders can stay at Manoa after parents say they were misledface=-Bold; The state Department of Education will allow Manoa Elementary School to keep its sixth-grade program until 2013, after parents of students alleged they were misinformed when they voted last year to ...
CELEBRATION - Bowl parties get a special Touch
Feb 02, 2007; ... Once again, the end of football season marks an annual migration of NFL players and their families to Honolulu for next week's Pro Bowl at Aloha Stadium. face=+Bold; 'All-Star Pro VIP Kickoff Party'face=-Bold; face=+Bold; Time:face=-Bold; 9 p.m. Feb. 7 face=+Bold; ...
Fallon weighs anchor - for now
Feb 02, 2007 ... face=+Bold; Adm. William Fallon is honored before he heads to the Mideastface=-Bold; By Gregg K. Kakesako gkakesako@starbulletin.com ADM. WILLIAM "Fox" Fallon gave hints that Hawaii could become his home port one day as he got ready to weigh anchor to become leader of ...
ART SCENE - First Friday
Feb 02, 2007 ... Stop by the Exhibit Space at 1132 Bishop St., and get a sense of what the future of the local art scene will look like. face=+Bold; First Fridayface=-Bold; face=+Bold; Time: face=-Bold; 5 to 9 p.m. Friday face=+Bold; Place:face=-Bold; Downtown/ Chinatown district ...
Full disclosure expected of judicial nominees
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Certain appointments spark the comments from Sen. Clayton Heeface=-Bold; Senate Judiciary Chairman Clayton Hee is warning judicial nominees: Tell the Judicial Selection Commission about past problems or face confirmation fights. "I want people to understand that ...
RESTAURANT - Cassis Honolulu will take Palomino's Harbor Court slip
Feb 02, 2007; ... Chef George Mavrothalassitis is adding a second restaurant -- a "bistro/wine bar with a very strong island flair" -- in the Harbor Court space now occupied by Palomino Restaurant. Cassis Honolulu will open in April, following a two-month renovation that will begin at the end of ...
BOXING - Ruling gives Viloria title shot
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The WBC strips Nino of the belt due to a positive drug testface=-Bold; MEXICO CITY » The WBC declared the light flyweight champion belt up for grabs yesterday, stripping Mexico's Omar Nino of the title for testing positive for methamphetamine following a Nov. 18 bout in Las ...
SUPER BOWL ON SUPER TVS - Fans snap up big TVs for Sunday's big game
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Hawaii was nearly left out of the high-definition party for this yearface=-Bold; » face=+Bold; SEE ALSO: TheBuzz - Super Bowl now in HDface=-Bold; CHICAGO » Mark Smithe admits to a moment of doubt before shelling out $10,000 for a 65-inch high-definition, ...
DIVISION I STATE SOFTBALL - St. Francis topples Kailua
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Datahouse/HHSAA State Softball Championshipsface=-Bold; face=+Bold; Division I face=-Bold; face=+Bold; Seeds: 1. Mililani; 2. St. Francis; 3. Baldwin; 4. Waiakeaface=-Bold; face=+Bold; All games at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadiumface=-Bold; ...
Sam's Club gas station on its way to Pearl City
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Construction is expected this summer, though a permit is still pendingface=-Bold; Hawaii's first Sam's Club gas station is on its way to Pearl City. Kevin McCall, spokesman for face=+Bold; Wal-Mart Stores Inc.face=-Bold; , said yesterday the company expects to begin ...
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL - Top-ranked Iolani pays back No. 4 Saint Louis
Feb 02, 2007; ... At Iolani H.S. gym SAINT LOUIS--Ricksson Pacarro 0, Kuli'a Aiona 2, John Quindara 0, Lucas Gonsalves 3, Scott Smith 14, Siunipa Fiefia 6, Kyle Gonzaga 0, Cole Shidaki 8, Solomona Aigamaua 11, Geordon Hanohano 0, Michael Tuiloma 2, Micah McClinton 3, Jamison Miller 0, Jacob Barit 0 ....
Enrollment at UH stable
Feb 02, 2007 ... face=+Bold; The university system has 86 fewer students than in spring 2006face=-Bold; Star-Bulletin staff Enrollment at the 10 University of Hawaii campuses is about the same as last year with only 86 fewer students, according to preliminary enrollment figures released ...
Power shortage blackout is averted
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Low demand stops outages from a cut in reserve capacityface=-Bold; Oahu residents escaped a series of threatened blackouts last night due to a shortage of reserve electricity-generation capacity. At about 5 p.m., HECO asked residents to reduce power consumption to ...
ON STAGE - A wicked and mighty tale
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The main players in "Samson and Dalila" appreciate the complexity of their rolesface=-Bold; If Camille Saint-Saens had set his opera "Samson and Dalila" in the present day, would it climax with a trip to Supercuts? We'll never know. But we do know that Saint-Saens' fussy and ...
Social safety net spans greatest need
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; For 60 years Catholic Charities has helped lift people from povertyface=-Bold; SIXTY YEARS ago, Catholic Charities Hawaii was formed to help children and families affected by World War II. The organization now stretches deeply into the neediest corners of the state, ...
NIGHTLIFE - Nightcrawlers
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Anna Bannana'sface=-Bold; 2440 S. Beretania St. / 946-5190 face=+Bold; COMING UPface=-Bold; Monday: "Open Mic Night," 9 p.m. Tuesday: "Bringing Back Kerouac," 8:30 p.m. face=+Bold; Arnold's Waikikiface=-Bold; 339 Saratoga ...
Hawaii quarter designs under scrutiny
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; A committee rejects all five proposed designs for the Hawaii quarterface=-Bold; KING Kamehameha I might have sway over the islands, but at least one mainland organization has nixed him from Hawaii's commemorative quarter. Last month, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts ...
Mental evaluation is ordered in Arizona Memorial theft case
Feb 02, 2007 ... A federal magistrate judge ordered a mental evaluation yesterday of a woman accused of stealing $170,000 from the Arizona Memorial Museum Association in 2005. Fe Nakahara is charged with one count of larceny for allegedly stealing while on federal property from May through August 2005, ...
MUSIC - Calling all the shots
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; "Old school" rockers The Radiators tour throughout the year and continue to draw new, young fansface=-Bold; Just like any music born and nurtured in New Orleans, the Radiators' so-called "funky fish head" sounds are best served live in concert. face=+Bold; The ...
Stealer of artifacts gets prison
Feb 02, 2007; ... A 45-year-old Big Island man was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison for his part in the theft of native Hawaiian artifacts from a burial cave in Kohala. John A. Carta of Kailua-Kona admitted to leading a collectibles dealer to the cave and assisting him in removing the items ...
OUR OPINION - Mayor's transit route wisely foresees Oahu's growth
Feb 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; THE ISSUEface=-Bold; Mayor Mufi Hannemann is proposing a 20-mile line from eastern Kapolei to Ala Moana Center as the first phase of the island's rail transit system. MAYOR Mufi Hannemann has settled on a relatively moderate scheme for the first and major phase of a ...
GOSPEL - Sacred sounds heading to LCC
Feb 02, 2007 ... "Can You Feel It?" is the title of the latest CD from sacred steel guitar masters the Campbell Brothers, and they're hoping a Hawaii audience will be rocking with that glorious gospel sound this weekend. From the initial influence of the Hawaiian steel guitar, the African American ...
Hearing on airport irradiator draws dozens
Feb 02, 2007; ... Supporters and opponents of a proposed facility that would use radioactive cobalt-60 to kill pests on fruit and other produce turned out in force last night to tell the Nuclear Regulatory Commission what they think of it. Proponents included several dozen farmers, many from the Big ...
DESIGNING MINDS - The comfort zone
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; A 1960s-era apartment is transformed into an island oasis face=-Bold; face=+Bold; The challengeface=-Bold; face=+Bold; Designing Mindsface=-Bold; face=+Bold; The project:face=-Bold; Work with the client to transform a 1,493-square-foot, 1960s apartment ...
CINEMA - Prepare to take flight
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The characters in "Flyboys" feel like clichés, but the movie really soars once in the airface=-Bold; When a movie is firing on all pistons, it can transport you. Not just into unfamiliar situations and emotions, but physically, right off the planet. Something like "Flyboys" ...
Hawaii Medical Center hit with labor charge
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The Teamsters file a federal complaint over layoff notices at two former St. Francis hospitalsface=-Bold; The Teamsters union has charged the Hawaii Medical Center with unfair labor practices regarding layoff notifications and procedures in a complaint filed with the ...
RECRUITING - Kahuku linemen commit
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Walton's call helps steer Tuipulotu to Arizona; Manu-Olevao picks UHface=-Bold; Arizona had an interesting advantage in the recruiting of Kahuku star defensive tackle Kaniela Tuipulotu. Tuipulotu, one of four Red Raider football players to make oral commitments to ...
A&B buoyed by China venture
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The shipping route is already contributing to the company's netface=-Bold; Alexander & Baldwin Inc.'s ocean-shipping venture into China appears to be paying off. Less than a year after beginning service, the parent of Matson Navigation Co. said yesterday its ...
OUR OPINION - Fix but don't scuttle smoking ban in bars
Feb 02, 2007 ... face=+Bold; THE ISSUEface=-Bold; The Hawaii Bar Owners Association has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the ban on smoking in bars. BAR owners are unlikely to win a court battle challenging Hawaii's new law that bans smoking on their property. However, a ...
OUR OPINION - 'Death with Dignity' deserves fair hearing
Feb 02, 2007 ... face=+Bold; THE ISSUEface=-Bold; A bill to allow physician-assisted suicide has been introduced in the Legislature. THE state Senate's narrow vote rejecting adoption of Oregon's Death With Dignity Act five years ago caused the issue to languish in the next two sessions. The U.S ....
RAINBOW BASKETBALL - 'Bows dog Fresno
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Next Upface=-Bold; vs. No. 15 Nevada tomorrow face=+2; WAC Standingsface=-2; face=+Bold; Yesterdayface=-Bold; face=+Bold; Hawaii face=-Bold; 54, Fresno State 42 San Jose State 68, Idaho 65 face=+Bold; Tomorrowface=-Bold; ...
RAINBOW BASEBALL - Eagles outslug Rainbows
Feb 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Next Upface=-Bold; vs. Georgia Southern tonight face=+2; Ga. Southern 13, Hawaii 11face=-2; E--Shehan; Lairsey; Young 3; Christensen; Hernandez. DP--Hawaii 1. LOB--Ga. Southern 6, Hawaii 7. 2B--Miller 2; Economos 2; Frash; Haislet; Zimny; Hernandez. HR--Economos ....