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The Hawaii Traveler

August 4th, 2008

Layoffs at Sea Life Park

Support your local dolphin:  Just months after its acquisition by the Parques Reunidos Group of Madrid, more than 40 employees of Sea Life Park will be laid off; that’s a staff reduction of about 20 percent. General Manager Jesus Bravo attributed the cuts to the nation’s economic downturn, and reduced ticket sales.
Hawaii’s Department of Labor’s […]

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July 5th, 2008

Hot Off the Presses

If you’re ever looking for great stories with authentic local flavor, check out one of my favorite feature blogs at the Honolulu Advertiser, “The Daily Dish,” by Catherine E. Toth — “a.k.a. Cat.”
I actually have to hand it to the Advertiser. Not only do they offer some great blogs, such as Lost in Hawaii, […]

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May 16th, 2008

The Marriage of Hattie and Sam

It’s the Hawai’i gear superstore visited by tourists and locals alike, and the place where you can buy a pound of Kona coffee, an aloha shirt, a dashboard hula girl, a lei, a box of macadamia nuts, and a set of pina colada stemware on the fly. It’s Hilo Hatties, the ubiquitous sign of […]

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