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A number of companies and hotels will offer pyrotechnics shows around the state on New Year’s Eve as part of celebrations. Maui might get more crackle and pop this New Year’s Eve. Dry conditions prompt fireworks warning Beginning at midnight, employees at Tanioka’s Seafoods and Catering in Waipahu were to begin cutting large blocks of ahi into thin slices. The pre-dawn work today is in anticipation of the morning arrival of scores of customers who ordered sashimi for New Year’s. President Barack Obama continued his low-key holiday vacation, spending several hours at the secluded North Shore home of a high school friend. Karl Rove, a senior advisor and top political strategist to former President George W. Bush, is scheduled to appear at the state GOP’s annual Lincoln Day dinner in February, local Republicans said Wednesday. Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk radio host, is “resting comfortably” in the Queen’s Medical Center after suffering chest pains, his program said in a statement. In stark contrast to Sarah Palin, whose Hawaii vacation was photographed and touted in the press, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is enjoying a very private luxurious time at the Four Seasons Hualalai resort on the Big Island. Crime in Honolulu rose nearly 6 percent in the first half of 2009, even as it fell nationwide. Despite an initial rejection by the governor … a proposed agreement to reduce the number of teacher furlough days is still alive. Hawaii County is moving forward with its revised version of a $1.4 million upgrade to Reed’s Bay Beach Park in Hilo. Firefighters continued to build a fire break around the Kealakekua Ranch fire Tuesday, West Hawaii Battalion Chief Reuben Chun said. Many Hawaii County property owners are abusing agricultural tax exemptions and not paying their fair share of taxes, according to the chairman of the Real Property Tax Board of Review. The voters’ rejection in 2008 of a proposed charter amendment that would have loosened ethical restrictions does not impact how the law is interpreted, county officials have determined. Do you walk three miles to and from work everyday? Would you expect a 7-year-old to? A recent study has thrown new light on the previously underestimated extent of pre-contact Hawaiian agriculture, particularly in dry lee areas of the Big Island.

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