Image Credit: George and Sandy
By The Garden Island
The county’s opportunity to blaze a trail forward on the eyesore that is the former Coco Palms resort may have passed many months ago when permit extensions were granted to the current owners, but Kauaians got two stark reminders in recent weeks of what could have been.
First, as [...]

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Kaua‘i’s coastal path meets resistance at Wailua
As the person who tends the heiau that line Wailua bay and river, Jim Alalem has a special sense about the region’s cultural value.
“It’s the most sacred area on Kauai,” he said. “No place else on Kauai but there were kings born. That’s where the first drums came up [...]

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From Andrea Brower of Malama Kaua‘i
This past Friday, the Malama Kaua‘i radio show on KKCR hosted Paul Glover, founder of Ithaca HOURS, one of the most successful local currencies in the country. It was an inspiring and interesting discussion about the economic, social, cultural, and environmental benefits of creating local exchange and investment systems, and [...]

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Kauai’s Feral Former Fighting Cocks Roam Freely and Crow Loudly at All Hours
Kauai, the oldest of the Hawaiian islands, is called the garden isle for its lush vegetation. Now people are calling it the chicken isle because it is overrun by roosters, hens and little chicks.
Most of the birds are believed to be descendants of [...]

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