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Aloha ‘Oe, Hiro’s ‘Ohana Grill

Thursday, July 24th, 2025

By Léo Azambuja

For the last eight years, Hiro’s ‘Ohana Grill was a picture-perfect venue for locals and visitors to relax to live music, have a pau hana drink with friends, enjoy a family dinner, take someone on a date, host special events or simply just have some good food. 

“I’m feeling emotional in a sense, because the support of our people has been astounding,” Cameron Hiro said on the last day the restaurant opened its doors. He co-owned the beachfront bar and restaurant along with his brother, Raymond Hiro, and their friend John Pele. 

On July 17, a special dinner buffet and poolside entertainment marked the final day Hiro’s ‘Ohana Grill served its customers.…

Molokai Mud Bog Returns After Decades

Thursday, July 24th, 2025

By Léo Azambuja

As the drivers lined up on the twin mud tracks, revving their engines to the tune of deafening noises, the sizable crowd waited quietly. On each start, the crowd erupted in cheers and mud boggers would send rocks flying through a cloud of red dirt before plunging into the mud pit, hoping to keep a straight line and finish first — and in one piece.

The Molokai Mud Bog 2025 attracted about 2,000 people to the new mud tracks in Ho‘oluehua July 19. Forty drivers battled each other with their mud boggers — modified mud-racing vehicles — and kept the crowd alongside the racetracks entertained all day.…