Click here for the announcement of an important meeting to determine State Highway projects planning for the long term future.  This is your opportunity to let the Department of Transportation know that project like those listed below are a priority for South Kohala: Saddle Road to Queen Ka’ahumanu HWY extension Kawaihae Road Bypass Waiaka Bridge [...]

Collection will occur between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., Saturday, March 3, 2012 at the Waimea Solid Waste Transfer Station. This event for household generated and self-hauled waste only. No business or farm wastes and NO electronic waste will be accepted. 
The County of Hawai‘i Department of Environmental Management holds these collection events so residents [...]

The recent 80-acre fire which caused evacuations in Waikoloa has prompted Waimea Community Association to schedule a FireWise program presentation at its 5:15 p.m., Thurs., March 1, 2012 Town Meeting in Waimea School Cafeteria. FireWise teaches communities how to adapt to living with wildfire and encourage neighbors to work together to prevent losses.  Given the [...]

Sen. Malama Solomon will begin a mandated five-day Legislative recess with a community update from 5:30-7:30 p.m., Thurs., Feb. 23, 2012 at the Kamuela Vacuum Cooling Plant.  Everyone is invited to share their thoughts and concerns about legislative priorities while there is still time to amend bills before First Decking on March 2, and First [...]

Vivienne Aronowitz, the Board President of Mala’ai: The Culinary Garden of Waimea Middle School, has written a letter to the Hoʻokākoʻo Board asking them to reconsider their move to replace Principal John Colson at Waimea Middle School.

Follow this link to Sherry Bracken’s web post about Brian De Lima’s comments on the resignation of Waimea Middle School Principal John Colson.

Keith Vieira, Chair of the Board of Directors of Ho’okako’o Corporation, has released a letter to the Waimea Middle School families and community inviting them to a meeting to discuss John Colson’s resignation. The meeting will be on Thursday, February 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Thelma Parker Memorial Gym. Click here to [...]

  Paniolo Preservation Society is inviting serious horseback riders on a half-day escorted trail ride exploring extraordinary pre-contact sites and features of the Waimea Field System as documented by historian Abraham Fornander in the mid 1800s, renowned Hawa’i historian Marion Kelly in the early 1970s, and more recently, by Ross Cordy in his respected book, [...]