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Island Life: Bovine breakfast

Jan. 09, 2021

Cattle graze under the morning sun on Pu’u Hoku’ula in Waimea on Thursday. (Bob Monzo/Community contributor)

Island Life: Naia ahoy

Jan. 08, 2021

Playful dolphins visit swimmers in Kailua Bay in 2020. (Reiko Sekine/Community contributor)

Island Life: Honu naptime

Jan. 07, 2021 • Updated 10:03 a.m.

A honu rests at Honokohau Historical Park on Monday. (Katie Schroeder/Community contributor)

Family raises more than $600 for children’s hospital

Jan. 07, 2021 • Updated 10:02 a.m.

Shane Hanley and his son, Tristan, who live stream Dungeons & Dragons on YouTube for a show they call Saturday Morning Wartoons, raised more than $600 on Dec. 26, 2020, for Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.

Announcements: January 6, 2021

Jan. 06, 2021 • Updated 10:50 a.m.

Applicants sought for Scientists in Parks program

Island Life: Neon foliage

Jan. 06, 2021 • Updated 11:07 a.m.

A red ti plant’s purple blooms are example of Hawaii’s gorgeous flora.

Want a dish that keeps on giving? Roast a chicken

Jan. 05, 2021

For the amount of time I have spent in the kitchen, one would think that roasting a chicken would be old hat by now. I should have dozens of roasted chickens in my culinary past. Sadly, until last year, I could count the number of chickens I’ve roasted in my lifetime on one hand.

The words that shaped the way we ate in 2020

Jan. 05, 2021

There was a lot to swallow in 2020. Our plates have been too full, as we chewed on now-commonplace terms like personal protective equipment, contact tracing, quarantine, social distancing and essential, or front-line, workers. All the while, the liquid pleasure in our glasses has needed refilling, perhaps with more frequency than we’d like to admit.

Island Life: Giant neighbors

Jan. 05, 2021

The view of Maunakea from the Mauna Loa weather station at 11,000 ft. (Steve Hinkley/Community Contributor)

Can you help identify this photo?

Jan. 05, 2021

Inside Kona Historical Society’s Jean Greenwell Library &Archive is the Photograph Collection, which holds more than 50,000 images depicting such subjects as ethnic culture, geography, agriculture, religion, and education in Kona between 1790 and 1994. In this collection, there are several photos of subjects unidentified and shown entirely without context.

Cooking resolutions for 2021: Resolve to cook more good food by starting with simple goals

Jan. 05, 2021

Speaking of home cooking, I was strolling through a cemetery the other day, the historic Graceland on Chicago’s North Side. Holy cripes on toast, you should see the monuments. This one dead guy, Potter Palmer — you’ve heard of The Palmer House Hotel? That’s him — he’s got an actual 16-columned Greek-style temple with matching sarcophagi for himself and his wife, who literally was named Bertha.

Island Life: Water and light

Jan. 04, 2021 • Updated 11:19 a.m.

Pu‘u rise into the sky behind a rainbow in Waimea.

Announcements: January 3, 2021

Jan. 03, 2021

Monthly siren test scheduled Monday

Island Life: Butter and saddle

Jan. 03, 2021

A saddleback butterflyfish swims along a South Kona reef on Wednesday. (Barry Fackler/Community contributor)

Composting and mulching to build healthy soils from scratch

Jan. 03, 2021

The beginning of a new year and the death and destruction that occurred in 2020 teaches us that life in general goes in cycles. Madam Pele manifests this phenomenon as Kilauea erupts again. With thousands of acres covered with lava in the last few years, it is hard to imagine they will ever support vegetation again at least in our lifetime.

Plant of the Month: Firecracker plant an eye-catching garden addition

Jan. 03, 2021

By now, you are probably tired of the pop, bang, boom of those expensive New Year’s fireworks down the street. Maybe you are ready to put a quieter, more attractive firecracker in your garden. Looking like a burning sparker, a firecracker plant can add an exciting visual effect to your landscape without the noise.