Talks set on new water rates
The Kauai Department of Water will hold informational meetings to discuss the scheduled 11.2 percent water rate increase that will take effect July 1.
The meetings will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. each day: Tuesday, Lihue Neighborhood Center; Thursday, Kapaa Neighborhood Center; June 28, Koloa Neighborhood Center; June 30, Kilauea Neighborhood Center; July 2, Kalaheo Neighborhood Center; July 3, Hanapepe Neighborhood Center; and July 5, Waimea Neighborhood Center.
One lane of Kapiolani to close
The makai curbside lane on Kapiolani Boulevard will be closed through Tuesday between University Avenue and Date Street for construction of new bus pads, city transportation officials reported.
Also due to the new bus pad construction, the morning westbound contra-flow lane on Kapiolani Boulevard will be suspended from Kaimuki Avenue to Hausten Street through Tuesday.
State reopens park where shark bit man
The state Department of Land and Natural Resources reopened Kekaha Kai State Park on the Kona Coast after an aerial survey Thursday morning did not find any sharks in nearby ocean.
The park, 2.6 miles north of Kona Airport, was closed Tuesday after a tiger shark bit Kailua-Kona resident James Kerrigan, a Transportation Security Administration employee, in Mahaiula Bay.
Kerrigan was swimming with his fiancee and six friends.
A Hawaii County department helicopter crew spotted several reef sharks in the area Wednesday, so the park was kept closed.
Kerrigan, 28, said he never saw a shark that bit him and that it wasn’t until he saw his blood in the water that he realized what had happened.
Church was contact site in molestations
A Hawaii County prosecutor said an Ocean View man indicted on molestation charges knew the victims through a church in a remote Kau community.
Deputy Prosecutor Jeff Burleson told the Hawaii Tribune-Herald that Nicholas Krivanek, 69, knew the underage victims through Ocean View Evangelical Community Church.
He is accused of molesting two girls under age 14 between 2007 and 2011. He is being held on $50,000 bail at Hawaii Community Correctional Center.
A former church official said Krivanek was removed as deacon and youth mentor after he confessed to church elders in 2011. Larry Fisher, who was secretary of the elders in 2011, said Krivanek was allowed to remain a church member on the condition that he did not have anything to do with children.
