Updated at 12:56 p.m., Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Army seeks comment on Makua cultural site preservation list Advertiser Staff The Army today announced the release of its recommended high priority cultural site list for unexploded ordnance clearance at Makua Military Reservation. The list was drafted in response to public comments received during a 30-day period… Read more »
Posts Categorized: O’ahu
Repairs to reef damaged by Navy ship proceed
Posted on: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Repairs to Hawaii reef damaged by Navy ship enter new phase Divers will collect coral displaced by grounded Navy ship By Curtis Lum Advertiser Staff Writer Divers today are expected to begin collecting coral colonies that survived the Feb. 5 grounding of the USS Port Royal and temporarily store… Read more »
Bills to avert Kahana evictions advance
April 26, 2009 Kahana evictions unlikely 2 pending bills seek to reverse threat to 6 Hawaiian families By Gordon Y. K. Pang Advertiser Staff Writer Lawmakers appear poised to give relief to six families that were on the brink of eviction from historic Kahana Valley late last year. Two bills that address the situation –… Read more »
More on Kualaka’i Trail / Road
Posted on: Sunday, April 26, 2009 Fight over name of road isn’t over By William Cole Advertiser Columnist Leading up to a state Senate committee hearing on April 15, there were lots of impassioned feelings over a proposal to ditch the name Fort Barrette Road in Kapolei and rename the roadway Kualaka’i Road. Some veterans’… Read more »
“Kualaka’i” or “Fort Barrette Road”? The colonial violence of naming
Veteran and military historical groups are fighting to retain the military name for the ancient Kualaka’i trail. Another struggle for domination of the symbolic landscape and an example of the colonial violence of naming… Posted on: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Fort Barrette Road’s name becoming a heated issue By William Cole Advertiser Military Writer KAPOLEI… Read more »
Gun sales “blazing” in Hawai’i
The fear of social and economic unrest and crime is driving up gun sales… Gun sales on Oahu blazing By Leila Fujimori POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Apr 22, 2009 First-time gun buyer Anthony Escasa obtained his permit to purchase a PS-90, describing it as a compact, futuristic-looking, semiautomatic weapon used by SWAT teams. Escasa was… Read more »
Strykers shipped into Honolulu on container ship, 4/12/09
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Abercrombie speaks about Makua and Hawai’i Superferry
Neil Abercrombie, 20-year Congressional Representative from Hawai’i, is making a run for Governor in 2010. He started out his political career as an anti-war activist at UH in the 1960s. More recently, he has been a proponent of militarization of Hawai’i, including supporting the largest military land-grab since World War II, the Army Stryker Brigade. … Read more »
Waikane Valley Restoration Advisory Board Meeting
Waikane Valley Restoration Advisory Board Meeting April 15, 2009 7:00 to 9:00 pm Wai’ahole Elementary School Public Meeting to discuss the Marine Corps clean up of unexploded munitions in the Kamaka family land in Waikane Valley. Background In the 1940s, the military leased nearly 1000 acres of land in Wai’ahole and Waikane Valleys for training… Read more »
“Several thousand” chemical munitions in “long trails” off Wai’anae
Photo: Terry Kerby/ Hawaii Undersea Research Lab A University of Hawaii deep-diving submersible examines munitions discarded five miles south of the entrance to Pearl Harbor. UH and Army scientists spent 15 days earlier this month mapping the location of munitions dumped in the ocean at a deep-sea disposal site off Oahu. Army analyzes data from… Read more »
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