Paradise Studio Artist Collective tour set for this weekend
Explore artist studios in Hawaiian Paradise Park and help bring art to the students of local high schools. The Paradise Studio Tour Artist Collective is having their 15th anniversary tour allowing the public into the studios where their art is created. Original art treasures and quality crafted gifts will be on display for sale from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Let’s Talk Food: Green Dragon and Red Delicious Apples
The Green Dragon apple has its roots in Japan in the 1920s, with the name of Chinese origin which was the ancient symbol for royalty.
WHO: New virus variant poses ‘very high’ risk
GENEVA — The World Health Organization warned Monday that the global risk from the omicron variant is “very high” based on the early evidence, saying the mutated coronavirus could lead to surges with “severe consequences.”
Community systems offer alternative paths for solar growth
MINNEAPOLIS — Strolling his church’s rooftop among 630 solar panels, Bishop Richard Howell Jr. acknowledged climate change isn’t the most pressing concern for his predominantly Black congregation — even though it disproportionately harms people of color and the poor.
Meetings today to showcase political maps
New political boundaries for federal, state and county elective offices are almost complete, and today, Hawaii County residents have an opportunity to weigh in on all of them.
More omicron cases pop up as world rushes to learn more
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in countries on opposite sides of the world Sunday and many governments rushed to close their borders even as scientists cautioned that it’s not clear if the new variant is more alarming than other versions of the virus.
Camped in Calais, migrants renew resolve to try for England
CALAIS, France — At the makeshift camps in France near Calais and Dunkirk, migrants are digging in, waiting for their chance to make a dash across the English Channel despite the deaths of at least 27 people this week when their boat sank a few miles (kilometers) from the French coast.
In French Pantheon, Josephine Baker makes history yet again
PARIS — France is inducting Josephine Baker — Missouri-born cabaret dancer, French World War II spy and civil rights activist — into its Pantheon, the first Black woman honored in the final resting place of France’s most revered luminaries.
Supreme Court set to take up all-or-nothing abortion fight
WASHINGTON — Both sides are telling the Supreme Court there’s no middle ground in Wednesday’s showdown over abortion. The justices can either reaffirm the constitutional right to an abortion or wipe it away altogether.
For cop who shot Daunte Wright, will ‘wrong gun’ plea work?
MINNEAPOLIS — When a suburban Minneapolis police officer shot and killed Daunte Wright in April, her reaction on body-camera video seemed to instantly establish the key facts of the case: “I grabbed the wrong (expletive) gun,” Kim Potter said. “I’m going to go to prison.”
Who is the real Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein enabler or pawn?
NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell spent the first half of her life with her father, a rags-to-riches billionaire who looted his companies’ pension funds before dying a mysterious death. She spent the second with another tycoon, Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while charged with sexually abusing teenage girls.
A strategy to fight veteran suicides
The White House’s latest effort to tackle the difficult problem of suicide among the military and veterans may be the comprehensive approach that’s sorely needed. It could help a lot of people here in Hampton Roads and across the nation. The new strategy, announced before Veterans Day, is promising and deserves support.
Why ‘King Richard’ brought me to tears
My stepfather used to play the numbers.
‘Tis the season for Christmas tree shopping
The Hilo Y’s Men and Women’s Club, in partnership with the Island of Hawaii YMCA, will be selling Christmas trees until stock runs out. For 72 years, the YMCA has been selling Christmas trees as a way to raise money for programs. This year, online preorders were offered for the first time.
Roth: New rules to take ‘a measured approach’
As Mayor Mitch Roth prepares to take over as primary emergency rule maker for Hawaii County from Gov. David Ige, he and his rules committee are “trying to take a measured approach.”
Shippers prepare for another pandemic crush of holiday gifts
PORTLAND, Maine — The last holiday season was far from the most wonderful time of the year for the U.S. Postal Service: Sick and quarantined workers, a flood of packages from shoppers loath to set foot in stores and a last-minute dump of packages from overwhelmed private shippers.
New EA planned for sewer project
The county is set to prepare another environmental assessment and work closely with the community before constructing a wastewater system to replace gang cesspools in Naalehu and Pahala, Environmental Management Director Ramzi Mansour said Wednesday.
Feds sentence women in Kona meth bust
U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor on Nov. 18 sentenced a pair of Hawaii Island women to federal prison for their role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine distribution, according to County Prosecutor Kelden Waltjen.
COVID variant spreads to more countries as world on alert
LONDON (AP) — The new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries on Saturday, just days after being identified in South Africa, leaving governments around the world scrambling to stop the spread.
Meeting on Hilo skate park slated for Dec. 8
The county Department of Parks and Recreation will be holding a public meeting on the design and development of a Hilo skate park.
High inflation? Low polling? White House blames the pandemic
WASHINGTON — Inflation is soaring, businesses are struggling to hire and President Joe Biden’s poll numbers have been in free fall. The White House sees a common culprit for it all: COVID-19.
Some states dropping ‘dehumanizing’ terms for immigrants
AUSTIN, Texas — Luz Rivas remembers seeing the word on her mother’s residency card as a child: “alien.”
Obituaries for November 28
Prayse Kolonahe Prembrook Chung, 23, of Hilo died Aug. 4 at home. Born in Hilo, he was an electrician’s helper for Walter’s Electric Inc. Visitation 5-6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4 at New Hope-Hilo, 840 Kupulau, Rod. Celebration of life at 6 p.m. Survived by father, Kaleonahe G. (Katie Kobayashi) Chung; mother, Leilokelani Billings; sisters, Heavyn Chung, Haart Chung and Khloe Chung-Castillo; brother, Shyn Chung; grandmother, Lucille V. Chung; grandfather, Kenneth Billings.
German minister hopes patient transfers a ‘wake-up call’
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister said Saturday he hopes that the sight of air force planes transferring patients across the country will act as a “wake-up call” to millions who are still holding out on getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
Keep infrastructure in the public’s hands
The recently passed $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill will provide desperately needed federal dollars to fix our roads, water systems and other public infrastructure. But the bill is not all sunshine and rainbows.
