OCCC visits canceled Sunday
Visits at the Oahu Community Correctional Center were canceled Sunday due to a staffing shortage.
The Department of Public Safety posted cancellation notices on Facebook and Twitter in an effort to notify people planning to come to the facility. Should future cancellations occur, the department will post a notice on social media between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. on the scheduled visitation day.
For more information about visitation schedules, go to dps.hawaii.gov.
Leak repair necessitates water outage
The Kauai County Water Department has announced a scheduled water outage for residents on Hoomana Road from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday. This outage is necessary for the department and its contractors to repair a leak, Kauai County said in a news release.
Residents are encouraged to sign up for notification of these service interruptions via the Connect CTY emergency notification service. To register for Connect CTY, visit www.kauai.gov.
Highway bypass project enters its last phase
Contractors will begin work Monday on the final phase of the Mamalahoa Highway bypass on Hawaii island.
County officials broke ground on the $27.9 million project Tuesday, the Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported.
The completion of the highway had been bogged down in litigation and financial woes.
The 2.2-mile segment is expected to ease congestion along Hawaii Belt Road in South Kona when it opens in 2016.
Isemoto Contracting submitted the lowest bid for the concrete roadway, which will extend the bypass from Halekii Street in Kealakekua to an intersection with a traffic signal at Napoopoo Road. The roadwork will cost $14.8 million.
The reconstruction of the Napoopoo Road and Mamalahoa Highway intersection will cost $13.1 million and will start later this year, Public Works Director Warren Lee said.
"It’s never about asphalt, infrastructure," Mayor Billy Kenoi said. "It’s about family. It makes a big difference when people get out of their car after 40 minutes instead of two hours."
