One recent August evening, Brett Schenk went for a walk to Waahila Ridge State Recreation Area, where he noticed a young boy overloading a barbecue grill at a pavilion with branches just before closing time.
Four years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that Kamehameha Schools had agreed to begin an audit of some 3,000 properties to determine which still had cesspools. The Conversation talked to Marissa Harman, director of asset management for Kamehameha Schools about where they are in the process.
You can’t talk about Hawaiʻi’s hybridized hibiscus without mentioning Charlies Nii Nursery tucked away in Kamilonui Valley in Hawaii Kai. The future of this second-generation family business is now uncertain.