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Preparing for the upcoming Honolulu City Lights, Honolulu Parks and Recreation employees Alex Ching, left, Kerry Terukina and Kevin Park placed a finishing touch to the Shaka Santa and Tutu Mele display to Honolulu Hale on Tuesday morning, Nov. 28.

Off The News: Honolulu City Lights includes a tribute

Today

The 39th Honolulu City Lights party comes to the Fasi Municipal Grounds on Saturday starting 4 p.m., with a tree-lighting ceremony at 6 p.m. Read more

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Puuloa Beach Park. Marines have a rifle range next door and they have signs posted not to enter area.

Off The News: Testing for lead at Puuloa Range

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Board of Water Supply (BWS) comment on Red Hill Cost Recovery. Ernest Lau, Board of Water Supply Manager and Chief Engineer.

Editorial: DoD has duty to fix years of fuel leaks

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Former President Jimmy Carter greeted attendees as he departed Wednesday’s funeral service for his wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, at Maranatha Baptist Church, in Plains, Ga.

Letter: Carters have shown much aloha for others

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Gov. Josh Green has released $15 million in general obligation bonds so that the Hawai’i Convention Center can shore up a leaky rooftop terrace deck — but it’s just a temporary fix and costs to permanently repair the roof are projected over the next three years to escalate by at least another 35% to $88 million.

Letter: Convention center can’t delay repairs to roof

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Former President Jimmy Carter greeted attendees as he departed Wednesday’s funeral service for his wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, at Maranatha Baptist Church, in Plains, Ga.

Letter: Carters have shown much aloha for others

Today

The picture of former President Jimmy Carter wearing a cigar and ti leaf lei made me think that they are truly one of the greatest couples to walk this Earth (“Final aloha to former first lady,” Star-Advertiser, Nov. 30). Read more

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Gov. Josh Green has released $15 million in general obligation bonds so that the Hawai’i Convention Center can shore up a leaky rooftop terrace deck — but it’s just a temporary fix and costs to permanently repair the roof are projected over the next three years to escalate by at least another 35% to $88 million.

Letter: Convention center can’t delay repairs to roof

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Onlookers pause to watch a spectacular sunset at the promenade of the Kakaako Waterfront Park.

Letter: True gratitude comes from God, not evolution

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Palestinians visit their houses destroyed in the Israeli bombings in Al-Zahra, on the outskirts of Gaza City, on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. during the temporary ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.

Letter: Israel must commit to a two-state solution

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State Capitol building.

Letter: Capitol reflecting pool should be rock garden

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Honolulu Board of Water Supply crews worked to repair a water main break at the intersection of Kuhio and Kalakaua avenues in Waikiki on April 27. The break caused a complete shutdown of Kalakaua Avenue.

Letter: Water rate hikes leave questions unanswered

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Ernest Lau, Board of Water Supply Manager and Chief Engineer.

Letter: Public has no choice but to pay more for water

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Board of Water Supply (BWS) comment on Red Hill Cost Recovery. Ernest Lau, Board of Water Supply Manager and Chief Engineer.

Editorial: DoD has duty to fix years of fuel leaks

Today

Two news stories breaking on Tuesday underscore, very concerningly, the uncertainty of chemical dangers that lurk below Hawaii’s picture-perfect environs. Read more

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Ala Wai Canal. Army Corps of Engineers unveils its “prospective plan” for Ala Wai flood control ahead of Monday’s public meeting. It includes those controversial 6-foot walls around the Ala Wai Canal but excludes another contentious item: turning Manoa District Park into a detention basin.

Editorial: Protect Waikiki from huge flood

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A Navy P-8A plane that overshot a runway at Marine Corps Base Hawaii and landed in shallow water offshore sits on a reef and sand in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, on Monday, Nov. 27, 2023.

Editorial: Inform public on Navy plane probe

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Park Kaleiwahea, left, Senate Asst. Sgt at arms and Taylor Date, from the office of Rep. Scott Nishimoto, were starting a delivery to Waikiki of donations to a family from Maui displaced by the fire. The basement of the Capitol is crowded with Maui donations.

Editorial: Give generously to those in need

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In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Rear Adm. John Korka, Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC), and Chief of Civil Engineers, leads Navy and civilian water quality recovery experts through the tunnels of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 23, 2021.

Editorial: Navy must pay for Red Hill mess

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Maui residents waited outside of the new Maui Distribution Center in Kahului, which is designed to be like a shopping center for those impacted by the fires, on Nov. 9.

Editorial: State’s budget priorities: Maui, and nuch more

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Shoppers are seen during Black Friday at Ala Moana Center, Friday, Nov. 25, 2022, in Honolulu.

Editorial: Shop creatively, and always local

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