The 27th annual Amer Ari Intercollegiate Golf Tournament was contested over the Waikoloa Kings’ Course In early February, with Oklahoma State emerging as the champion in decisive fashion. The Cowboys took the lead on the second day of play and…
Lions and Taiko drums helped welcome the Chinese “Year of the Dog” at the exciting “Asian Fest” at Queens’ MarketPlace on Friday, February 2. The event was marked by the high energy of vibrant Lion Dancers and driving rhythms of…
Christopher Bagwell Hemmeter, 1939-2003 Christopher B. Hemmeter was one of the Aloha State’s most charismatic hotel developers in the 1970s and 1980s, and his influence is perhaps nowhere more evident than at Waikoloa Beach Resort. It was here that one…
In December, a new coffee table book on Waikoloa Beach Resort, “THE GATHERING PLACE of the Kohala Coast,” was published. In thoroughly researched text and artful photography, the book details the history of the land on which the resort is…
This winter, a unique new offering will be open for resort guests and the local community: Waikoloa Luxury Cinemas at Queens’ MarketPlace. Scheduled to open around the beginning of December — “We don’t want to miss the new Star Wars…
Waikoloa Beach Resort earns its moniker, “The Gathering Place of the Kohala Coast,” every week of the year by providing an amazing array of entertainment options. There are hula shows, performing musicians, culinary celebrations, and much more. During the holiday…
The Waikoloa Luxury Cinemas will be the first business the Dalzells have opened in Hawai`i, although they have been visiting the Waikoloa area annually for past 20 years. “It’s become like a second home and we’ve long thought of retiring…
Taking home the first-ever “winner of winners” Olelo Hawaii Award in the Kindy Sproat Falsetto Contest was Benson Kam, pictured here with his proud ohana
When the Polynesian Voyaging Society first sailed the double-hulled voyaging canoe (wa‘a kaulua) Hōkūle`a to Tahiti in 1976 — the first such canoe built in Hawai`i in many generations — it set in motion a rediscovery of ancient knowledge held…
One of the ways Paishon and Na Kalai Wa`a Moku o Hawai`i is passing on this knowledge is by working with local schools — 10 of them — both in the classroom and in the school gardens, on a provisioning…