Trust to help pay for private schools
HONOLULU (AP) — Kamehameha Schools plans to spend $47 million over the next 15 years to pay the private school tuition of 720 students.
The Native Hawaiian school has been trying to expand its educational beneficiaries in recent years by increasing the number of preschool scholarships it offers and expanding its community outreach programs.
The trust was established under the 1883 will of Hawaii Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop to educate Native Hawaiians.
The trust, valued at more than $9 billion as of June 2007, is the largest private landowner in Hawaii.
The new scholarships, provided under the Pauahi Keiki Scholars Kindergarten Program, were announced last week but details were released this week. They offer students up to $6,000 in tuition aid. Parents will be allowed to reapply for the funds until their children graduate from high school.
The school and the scholarship program give preference to Native Hawaiian applic
Ex-critics now want to stay on Mainland to serve prison time
HILO (AP) — Nearly 100 female inmates from Hawaii being held at a private prison in Kentucky say they don’t want to come home.
About two-thirds of the 149 women at Otter Creek Correctional Center in Wheelwright, Ky., have signed a petiti
‘Dog’ returns to A&E
HONOLULU — Bounty hunter Duane ‘‘Dog’’ Chapman’s popular cable TV show is scheduled to be back on the air this summer after it was pulled following a racial outburst by the reality show star.
Executives with A&E, the cable network that b
Sony, recycler to start program
HONOLULU — Sony Hawaii and Recycle Hawaii are partners in a program that will allow consumers to hand in broken or worn-out radios, TVs, recorders, Walkmans and other devices for free. There’ll be a charge for recycling non-Sony electronics.
State lowers economic growth forecast
HONOLULU (AP) — The state expects slower economic growth this year and next due to the shutdown of ATA and Aloha airlines’ passenger service, as well as the departure of two NCL Corp. cruise ships from the Hawaii market.
The state Depart
Akaka, Strazar backing Obama
HONOLULU — Sen. Daniel Akaka and another unpledged Hawaii superdelegate, Dolly Strazar, have endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president.
That leaves Sen. Daniel Inouye the lone Hawaii member of Congress in the Hillary Rodham Clinton camp.
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