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General news which affects the Molokai community in one way or another.

Molokai Family Health Center Closure

Wednesday, January 18th, 2023

We are writing to you as a respected, cherished and important patient of Kauka Noa Emmett Aluli,

M.D. to let you know that Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023 will be the last day that medical services will be provided at the Molokai Family Health Center. The clinic will remain open until Tuesday, Feb. 28, to assist you and other patients in finding a new provider here on Molokai.

We are so very blessed and fortunate that 46 years ago, Kauka Aluli, inspired by our kupuna, chose Molokai for his family healthcare practice. With his passing away on Nov. 30, 2022, the Molokai Family Health Center no longer has a family practice physician to provide medical care for our patients.…

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Sweet Home Molokai

Wednesday, January 18th, 2023

Molokai, so beautiful with a rich, happy and simple everyday lifestyle.  Life is peaceful and we appreciate what we have from this Island.  

Every Molokai sunrise brings hope, happiness and a special new day.  We are reminded to continue kind acts to ourselves and others in the community. We are reminded to act with love, care and respect for everyone — family, children, the community and visitors to our beautiful Island.

Every Molokai sunset brings a purification of spirit — forgiveness, release of negative energy in preparation for the next sunrise.  That is one of the purposes of sunrises and sunsets in our lives. …

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Remembering Hal Newman

Wednesday, January 18th, 2023

On the road again

As the sun rises in the east

Birds heard chirping against a changing sky.

Island community wakes

Lush, green and rainbow

Colors set against a

Northern cliff backdrop

That is east end Molokai.

A lone figure appears on 

The blacktop, navigating 

Toward the roadway, the 

Ocean and the secrets of 

Fishponds, old gas stations,

Coconut palms, towering

Mountains, lost horizons.

Greetings exchanged, vistas

Viewed and the heart and

Lungs renewed.

To the north, the church.

To the south, the ponds.

Acknowledgment and 

Thanks to another day

In the island way of

Luminous, living color.

Shirlee Newman, Hal’s loving wife

Hal was 94 when he passed away in October, 2022.…

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Who Owns My Home?

Wednesday, January 18th, 2023

Who Owns My Home?

Community Contributed

By Eileen M.S. Nims, Esq.

This is a question I get asked all the time. Homeownership can be a bit confusing. After you buy a home on Molokai with a mortgage, you often don’t see the actual deed, or the title to the house. It gets sent to the bank or the escrow company after recording. You may even be told that “The bank owns your home until it has been fully paid off.” However, this is not true! Once you have signed the paperwork prepared by a residential conveyancing expert, the house is yours. Your name is on the deed as owner.…

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Golf Ace

Wednesday, January 18th, 2023

Golf Ace

Community Contributed

By Rick Schonely

Rodney Reyes is the January ace winner for the Hui O Kukui Golf Club. “Hot Rod” Reyes and retired Molokai dentist and Molokai golf pro Dana Takashima were tied with a 69 net each which forced a play-off. Still tied after two playoff holes, Reyes got his par on the number three hole to claim the victory.

A great day was had by all at the first golf tournament of 2023. There was great fellowship, and great golf and a luncheon to follow. The club would like to thank the staff and management of iconic Ironwood Hills golf course for perpetuating the game of golf on Molokai.…

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MHS Principal’s Honors List & Honor Roll

Wednesday, January 18th, 2023

The Principal’s Honors List are students who have earned Mark Point Averages of 4.000* or above while enrolled in four or more courses, two or more of which are solid courses.  For the second quarter of the 2022-23 school year, they are:

Grade: 12 Augustiro Dion 4.000Grade: 12 Bumatay Joanne Nicole 4.000Grade: 12 Bumatay Quedin Clever 4.000Grade: 12 Duffy Danica 4.000Grade: 12 Duvauchelle Olapaholunape 4.000Grade: 12 Kahue-Cabanting Reina 4.000Grade: 12 Lima-Villa Kairee 4.000Grade: 12 Mamuad Jaslyn 4.000Grade: 12 Morris Raven 4.000Grade: 11 Adolpho Jericho 4.000Grade: 11 Agcaoili Sheniah Halle 4.000Grade: 11 Bush Chevy 4.000Grade: 11 Chong Kalima Kailiah 4.000Grade: 11 Davis Miliopuna 4.000Grade: 11 Duvauchelle Kauahekiliohu 4.000Grade: 11 Han Sonni 4.000Grade: 11 Kanemitsu Aiko 4.000Grade: 11 Kaupu Tollefsen Ella-Janee 4.000Grade: 11 Pali-Pahupu Kamauwai’ihi 4.000Grade: 11 Pu-Puaa Soulriah 4.000Grade: 11 Tanabe Clarence 4.000Grade: 10 Arinoki Te Waitemata 4.000Grade: 10 Braxton Mahealani 4.000Grade: 10 Cockett Rose Marie 4.000Grade: 10 Dunaevskaya Elizaveta 4.000Grade: 10 Manaba Anjolie 4.000Grade: 10 Pua’a Ara Meiliah 4.000Grade: 09 McLaurin Timika 4.000Grade: 09 Oamil Jr.…
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Molokai Group Awarded for Highway Cleanups

Wednesday, January 11th, 2023

Molokai Group Awarded for Highway Cleanups

By Catherine Cluett Pactol | Editor

A group of Molokai residents were honored for their exemplary public service in picking up debris from the highway. The Kawela Plantation Homeowners’ Association was recently named the recipient of the No Ka Oi Highway Hui Award, a program of the State of Hawaii, Department of Transportation Highways Division, Maui District. The award recognizes Adopt-A-Highway groups for their environmental volunteerism. 

The Homeowners’ Association is comprised of nearly 200 full- and part-time residents. They committed to cleaning a two-mile segment along Kamehameha V Highway and have organized a cleanup every few months. With an average 10 volunteers, they pick up about 20 bags of rubbish each time, according to a press release. …

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$1.6M for Health Center Dental Expansion

Wednesday, January 11th, 2023

$1.6M for Health Center Dental Expansion

By Catherine Cluett Pactol | Editor

Molokai Community Health Center’s dental services will be expanding after receiving $1,664,000 in Community Project Funding as part of a recently passed $1.7 trillion federal spending bill.

The funds will be used to renovate MCHC’s dental clinic to add three new dental operatories, office partitions Melbourne for flexible dental/hygiene/office spaces, an enlarged patient waiting area, state of the art dental equipment and a multi-tiered air sanitization system, according to MCHC. The new clinic space will double patient access to dental services and accommodate three full-time dental/hygiene providers to address the overwhelming increase in demand for oral hygiene and dentistry services island wide, the center stated so you can contact professionals like dentist Willmar and others.…

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Temporary Water Shut Off of Hoʻolehua Water System

Wednesday, January 11th, 2023

DHHL News Release 

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL), through its contractor Goodfellow Brothers, will conduct improvements to a main water line of Molokai’s Hoʻolehua Water System beginning on Jan. 16.

As part of these improvements, water service is scheduled to be shut off from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. on Jan. 17 and 18.

Residents in Kalamʻula are advised to conserve water. Upon reactivation, customers may experience low water pressure until the system is fully pressurized. Affected customers are asked to store water and adjust schedules accordingly.

The temporary water service interruption is a portion of DHHL’s $37 million capital improvement project to upgrade Molokai’s 80-year-old Hoʻolehua Water System.…

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Kilohana School Finalist in STEM Competition

Wednesday, January 11th, 2023

Samsung News Release 

Molokai’s Kilohana School is among 300 public schools across America have been named State Finalists in the 13th annual Samsung Solve for Tomorrow national competition, announced Samsung Electronics America. Representing the cream of more than 1000 competition entrants, each state finalist has won a package of $2,500 in technology and school supplies. Kilohana was one of five schools in Hawaii that became finalists. These finalists advance to additional stages of the competition that will culminate in three schools being selected in May as national winners, and receive $100,000 prize packages. 

The annual Solve for Tomorrow competition challenges public school students in grades 6-12 to explore the role science, technology, engineering, and math (the core STEM subjects) can play in addressing some of the biggest issues in their local communities.…

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