Saturday Market Returns to Kaunakakai

For many years, the Saturday Market in Kaunakakai was a gathering place for the community. Vendors sold produce, food, clothing, art, crafts and much more – until the COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to the market in early 2020. It might have taken four years for the market to return to town, but it has officially kicked off last Saturday.
“This is very exciting,” ceramic artist Kim Markham said. “After COVID, we stopped going to people’s houses, we stopped doing a lot of things, so coming to the Saturday Market every week I get to meet a lot of people, and I get to see a lot of people I haven’t seen a long time.…