Heavy rains and flood conditions have forced the closure of  Hanalei Elementary.

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Freelance artist Curtis Cabral’s first Ching Young Village Shopping Center mural was 4-foot by 80-foot. “I did it with spray paint,” said the 14-year North Shore resident.
“I used to hire some of the kids from Hanalei Gourmet to help me with my murals,” said Cabral. “I’d tell these transient hippies, ‘Don’t you want to aspire [...]

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Money To Replace Unsafe Playground Equipment
Pierce Brosnan and his wife, Keely, have donated $100,000 to help replace an unsafe playground at an elementary school on Kauai, where they own a home.
The money was donated to Hawaii 3R’s (Repair, Remodel and Restore Hawaii’s public schools), a nonprofit organization that kicked in $47,800 for the project at [...]

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The two educators implicated in drug-related charges last month are just a couple of 40-something housemates, each going through some rough patches, one said yesterday.
The men both lost their fathers to car accidents this year, and now, their jobs as well, former Kula Intermediate and High School Vice Principal David Rojeck said.
Rojeck and former athletic [...]

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Our state legislators consistently play a fun game around budget time — they like to give the chairman of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, a department of considerable importance in Hawaii, some paper clips as his budget, and see if he can trade them up for a house in four years’ time. This [...]

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The state is dispatching biologists into the forested areas of northwestern Kauai this month to survey the populations of rare native forest birds, the Department of Land and Natural Resources announced.
A 2005 survey deep in the Alakai Wilderness Area, as well as recent reports, “suggest that populations of the remaining native forest birds may now [...]

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After a “nerve-wracking” day of chess, winners emerged from the Hanalei School third annual Chess Tournament, though chess instructor Terry Moeller felt that all the students came out winners.
“My brain is fried,” said Maddy Rausch, the first-place winner for the Upper Elementary, Girls Division. “It was nerve-wracking, playing from 8 this morning until 1:30 this [...]

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Kula schools’ vice principal and a science teacher face marijuana charges
A science teacher and the athletic director of an expensive private North Shore school were arrested last week for allegedly growing marijuana at their home.
Alan Bertolino, 43, the science teacher at Kula Intermediate and High School, was charged with second-degree commercial production of marijuana, among [...]

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Two men arrested in connection with the Kaua‘i Police Department’s recent drug bust have been identified as a Kula Intermediate and High School eighth-grade teacher and the vice principal.
Police seized 50 marijuana plants, processed marijuana, drug paraphernalia and ammunition last week from a Moloa‘a home. The raid prompted the arrests of Kula Intermediate and High [...]

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