It must be a profoundly bittersweet time for St. Francis School, which will close permanently at month’s end after 95 years of service. The difficult decision, announced earlier this year, was due to declining enrollment.

But the Manoa school will be going out with a bang, not least of all due to some stellar athletics. St. Francis just captured the Division II state title in baseball, capping an unprecedented spring that also saw championship titles in girls softball and boys volleyball. Kudos to the school in its final hurrah.

Bribery mystery lingers

In the aftermath of pleading guilty in federal court to bribing government officials in Hawaii and Micronesia to obtain more than $10 million in contracts, Frank James Lyon, the president of Honolulu civil engineering company Lyon Associates Inc. and a former Honolulu Zoning Board of Appeals member, was sentenced on Monday to 2-1/2 years in prison.

Questions linger, however. While Lyon has admitted to paying about $240,000 in bribes to a Hawaii state agency employee to secure a $2.5 million contract, neither the agency nor the bribee has been named in court documents — yet. A federal probe continues.