The mayor of Kauai has a heart bypass performed on Oahu
Kauai Mayor Bryan Baptiste is “his usual feisty self” after heart bypass surgery Friday, Kauai public information officer Mary Daubert said yesterday.
Baptiste, 52, went in for a routine checkup last week, and doctors apparently did not like what they saw.
“They recommended he go for surgery,” [...]

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U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono, D-District 2, hosted about 15 constituents at a “Congress on Your Corner” community forum yesterday afternoon at the Hanalei Elementary School.
The first-term congresswoman briefed attendees on the issues most important to her before taking questions.
“The war in Iraq and the cost of the war overlays so much of what we’re trying [...]

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A Wainiha man who had pled guilty to three felony charges stemming from two separate Hanalei burglaries over the past two years received the maximum sentence allowed.
Ray Kuna Harada, 36, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by 5th Circuit Judge Randal Valenciano yesterday.
 On Jan. 24, Harada pled guilty to felony burglary and theft charges [...]

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A mother of three was identified as the woman who was found dead Wednesday morning in Kilauea.
County officials said Heather Bell, 39, of Kilauea, had been reported missing Tuesday night.
North Shore firefighters recovered her body at 6:08 a.m. on the east side of Kalihiwai Bay.
Her body was found on an outcropping of rocks after what [...]

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North Shore firefighters recovered the body of a woman yesterday morning in Kilauea at Kalihiwai Bay.
Police do not believe foul play is a factor, however, the case is under investigation, Mary Daubert, county spokeswoman, said.
Emergency responders from the Hanalei fire station and rescue specialists from Lihu‘e recovered the woman’s body yesterday at 6:08 a.m. on [...]

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Ranks of Hawaiians grows on the mainland, shrinks at home
While native Hawaiians increased in population nationwide, their numbers have decreased in the Aloha State in the past several years.
California is beginning to rival Hawaii in the total number of native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.
Hawaii also has experienced an increase in Micronesians, who have unrestricted [...]

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