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Residents displaced by lava share insurance concerns during forum
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DLNR seeks hearing officer for TMT sublease
‘Hawaii
is home’
Two words are giving some Puna residents
who lost their homes to the ongoing
Kilauea eruption more anxiety as they try
to rebuild their lives — “lava exclusion.”
That language, or something similar, is
in some home insurance policies issued
within Lava Zone 1, leaving policy holders
to wonder if they
have any coverage.
That uncertainty was
highlighted Thursday
during an insurance
forum for lava victims
at the Hawaiian
INSIDE
Shores Community
Association building.
More than 200 people
attended, with some having to stand outside
and listen through open windows.
Concerns mostly involved policies
provided through Lloyd’s of London.
About a third present raised their
hands when asked if they have a policy
with Lloyd’s, one of the few companies
willing to insure in that area, and a fraction
of that said their policy includes
language excluding losses due to lava.
March 11, 2017
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Lava flows into the ocean Friday near homes in what remains of Kapoho Beach Lots. See INSURANCE Page A9
and cyclist use the section of the Hilo Bayfront Trails near the soccer fields on Kamehameha Avenue on
Hilo.
With only one active fissure, county eases into ‘recovery phase’
By MICHAEL BRESTOVANSKY
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Little about the volcanic
eruption changed Friday as
the county began shifting
its focus to rebuilding.
Fissure 8 in Leilani Estates
continues to be the only
vent actively producing lava,
although Hawaii County
Civil Defense
reported early
Friday that fissures
9, 10 and
Photos by HOLLYN JOHNSON/Tribune-Herald
24, all located
southwest of
fissure 8, were
producing
gas and steam and that fissure
24 was incandescent.
Steve Brantley,
deputy scientist
in-charge
at Hawaiian
Volcano
Observatory,
said no changes
in the “vigor”
of fissure
8 were detected, with the
vent continuing to produce
fountains of lava
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more than 200 feet high.
The flow of lava from
fissure 8 to the ocean is now
estimated to cover roughly
9 square miles, said HVO
geophysicist Jim Kauahikaua.
An accurate shape of the
lava shelf extending from the
former shoreline of Kapoho
Bay has not been determined,
although it was confirmed
that lava is flowing along the
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the Hilo
Trails continues
unexpected
grant cycle
organizers
priorities.
phase of the
last October
new multiuse
Mooheau
Banyan
well as a path
the soccer
Kamehameha
Pauahi Street.
second phase
to extend
Wailoa River State
Area, but when
went to apply for
they learned
parks division
Department of Land
Resources could
is the agency
of the land.
The Hilo Bayfront
Trails group now is applying
for grant funding for
a different segment of
the master trails plan in
order to keep momentum
going, said Roy Takemoto,
executive assistant for
Mayor Harry Kim.
“The idea is to do
another segment along the
Waiolama Canal so that
walkers could loop back
around the (soccer field)
parking lot and restroom
area,” he said.
A second segment would
connect the parking lot
area with downtown Hilo,
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Department of
Natural Resources
first step toward
contested case
the Thirty Meter
sublease on
by seeking applicants
hearing officer.
remains unclear
the quasi-judicial
— the third
be held.
The lower court ruling
requiring a hearing for the
sublease with the University
of Hawaii at Hilo is under
appeal, and the department’s
solicitation for applicants is
noncommittal. The deadline to
apply was Friday afternoon.
The job notice says the agency
seeks qualified applicants
“in the event it is decided to
hold a contested case hearing
and use a hearing
officer.”
“This solicitation
is made
for the purpose
of identifying
qualified candidates
if and as
necessary,” the notice says.
A hearing officer would
need to devote a “substantial
amount of time in the next six
to (12) months,”
according to the
department.
Supporters
and opponents
of building the
large observatory
on the
mountain said Friday they
had not received instructions
from the department on how
to proceed. No additional
information was available from
the department by deadline.
The hearing, if scheduled,
would be separate from the
contested case covering the
$1.4 billion project’s conservation
district use permit.
That hearing, a replay of a
previous contested case from
2011, concluded witness testimony
March 2. A decision
from hearing officer Riki May
Amano could be months away.
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State’s few Muslims thrust
into spotlight because of
challenge to travel ban
The beginning of the Hilo Bayfront Trails path on Pauahi Street that connects the
soccer fields off Kamehameha Avenue.
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
Associated Press
HONOLULU — Hawaii has 5,000
or so Muslims — less than 1 percent
of the state’s population — who are
finding themselves thrust into an international
spotlight after the state’s top
lawyer launched a challenge to President
Donald Trump’s revised travel ban,
saying it contradicts the islands’ welcoming
culture that values diversity.
Named as a plaintiff in the federal
lawsuit fighting the ban is Ismail
Elshikh, the imam of Oahu’s only
mosque — a converted plantation-style
house in a hilly Honolulu neighborhood
a few miles from Waikiki. Muslims
who gather in the prayer room know
they’re facing Mecca when the view of
iconic Diamond Head is at their backs.
Elshikh’s mother-in-law is a Syrian
living in Syria who won’t be able to
visit her relatives in Hawaii because
of the ban, and that will deprive the
rights of Elshikh, his wife and their
children as U.S. citizens, said state
Attorney General Doug Chin.
It was difficult for the shy and
reserved Elshikh to make the decision to
join the lawsuit and he is not speaking
publicly because of legal reasons and
fears for his security in a state that has
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Literature is seen inside the prayer room
Thursday at the Muslim Association
of Hawaii building in Manoa Valley in
Honolulu. The mosque has been serving
Hawaii for nearly 50 years, according to
the group.
UNFORESEEN TURN
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Saturday, June 9, 2018
KILAUEA ERUPTION
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out from afar to assist
with the response to
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Craig Coley,
center,
celebrates
a birthday
toast with
his ohana
Thursday at
the Hilton
Waikoloa
Village in
Waikoloa.
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Hilo man is a big part of his exonerated friend’s life
By TIFFANY DEMASTERS
West Hawaii Today
WAIKOLOA — Craig Richard
Coley this week celebrated his
71st birthday in Hawaii — his
first birthday as a free man after
spending nearly 39 years in prison
for a crime he didn’t commit.
And he didn’t spend the
memorable occasion alone.
Mike Bender, a former police
detective who spent 30 years of his
life fighting to prove Coley’s innocence,
joined Coley on the Big Island.
The men also were in the company
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