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IVY ASHE
Tribune-Herald
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,
TOM CALLIS
Tribune-Herald
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 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
Associated Press
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
Funding twist alters plans for next phase of Hilo Bayfront Trails
See TMT Page A3
See SPOTLIGHT Page A3
See TRAILS Page A8
By STEPHANIE SALMONS
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
After the second-wettest
dry season in three decades,
Hawaii is expected to see
below average rainfall in the
coming months, according
to the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s
wet season rainfall outlook
that was released Friday.
Kevin Kodama, senior
hydrologist with the National
Weather Service in Honolulu,
said the beginning part
of the dry season, which
runs from May through
September, brought some
droughts in leeward areas.
Droughts developed in
Maui County early this
summer, as
well as leeward
areas of the
Big Island and
Oahu, according
to the outlook,
and reached
severe levels
in small portions of the
Big Island and Maui.
Then came the rains.
With Hurricane Lane
in August, Tropical Storm
Olivia in September and other
weather systems that also
produced heavy rain, Kodama
said droughts were “pretty
much eliminated across the
state by early October.”
Throughout a four-day
period in August, Hurricane
Lane dumped as much as
50 inches of rain in some
areas of East Hawaii.
“Rainfall totals were
above average pretty much
everywhere on the east half
of the Big Island,” down
to Pahala, said Kodama.
Heading into the wet season,
which runs from October
Police shoot,
kill woman
By MICHAEL BRESTOVANSKY
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Big Island police shot and killed a woman
Friday morning after she used a stolen
vehicle to repeatedly ram a police vehicle
near Hawaiian Beaches in Puna.
The woman was identified
late Friday as 26-year-old Ashley
Elisna Grammer of Hilo.
Three Puna patrol officers
were conducting a routine patrol
on Beach Road in the area
known as Honolulu Landing
at about 1 a.m. Friday.
Puna Patrol Area I Assistant Chief Mitchell
Kanehailua said patrols in the area have commonly
found fugitives with active warrants,
cases of illicit drug use and stolen vehicles
in the past. In this instance, the patrol found
a 1998 Toyota 4Runner parked on a dirt trail
near the ocean and moved to investigate.
As the officers attempted to leave their
KODAMA
See WET SEASON Page A10
EAST HAWAII WET SEASON OUTLOOK
By TIFFANY DEMASTERS
West Hawaii Today
KEALAKEKUA — A
former Hawaii County police
officer faces up to a year in
jail after jurors on Friday
found him guilty of misdemeanor
negligent homicide
in the death of a bicyclist
more than three years ago.
The jury returned the
verdict in the trial of former
officer Jody Buddemeyer,
finding him guilty of
third-degree negligent
homicide, a lesser included
offense, after deliberating
on the case for nearly six
hours following closing
arguments Friday. The officer
was facing a charge of
first-degree negligent homicide,
a Class B felony.
They also found
Buddemeyer not guilty of
evidence tampering and false
reporting to law enforcement.
“I do appreciate the
jury’s decision,” said Deputy
Prosecutor Kauanoe Jackson
on Friday evening. “The
state understands it was a
difficult case and believes
the jury did their best with
the evidence presented.”
Buddemeyer declined
to comment after the verdict.
His attorney, Brian De
Lima, spoke on his behalf.
Former Hawaii
County police
officer Jody
Buddemeyer, left,
and his attorney,
Brian De Lima,
await the verdict
in his trial Friday
evening in Kona
Circuit Court.
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DEMASTERS/
West Hawaii Today
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Suspect rammed officers’ vehicle
about 20 times with stolen SUV
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Caroline Hauanio, 11, looks on as Mercy Dunn, 10, and Brynne Harper, 9, mix together a home-style pasta
dough recipe Friday during the 4-H Cooking Day Camp at the Komohana Research and Extension Center
in Hilo. The camp was hosted during fall break for public schools. Friday’s pasta demo was led by the new
manager of Del’s Feed and Farm Supply, Ken Smith. Del’s is running the 4-H Paper Clover Campaign, which
benefits 4-H programs. Today and tomorrow are the last days customers can pledge a $1 donation to the
campaign. About 80 percent of the money raised comes back to the county 4-H program to use toward camp.
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