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Newswatch
Star-Bulletin staff and wire service
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Sewer work to slow Kapiolani for 7 weeks
The city is shutting down two lanes of six-lane Kapiolani Boulevard 24 hours a day through Nov. 22 for sewer work.
One lane in each direction between Pensacola Street and Kamakee Street will be closed for night work from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m.
Work began last night to bury the pipes, and is expected to be completed Thursday.
The work is part of a larger rehabilitation project of existing sewer pipes.
A pump for a sewer bypass will be installed Saturday and will sit temporarily on the roadway surface in front of McKinley Car Wash on Kapiolani.
Morning contra-flow lanes will stop after the McCully Street intersection. There will be no afternoon contra-flow lanes.
The work on the Kapiolani Boulevard Water & Sewer System Improvement Project will continue through Nov. 22, with a break during the holidays. Work resumes Jan. 14.
The entire two-year project includes work on Atkinson Drive, Kapiolani Boulevard from Ward to Kalakaua avenues, Kalakaua and Kamakee Street.
Water crews working to fix Kakaako break
A Board of Water Supply crew continued working last night to repair a break to an 8-inch water main break in Kakaako.
The break occurred about 9:30 p.m. Monday at 609 South St.
Petroleum-contaminated soil was discovered eight feet below ground near the broken water main, delaying the work. A hazardous-materials specialist was called in to clean up the site, in compliance with the federal Clean Water Act.
No water was contaminated. The Board of Water Supply keeps the main pressurized enough to prevent water contamination, an agency spokeswoman said.
Traffic between Halekauwila and Queen streets was redirected into the two left lanes.
Six businesses and two apartment buildings were without water. A water wagon at 565 Quinn Lane supplied water to customers.
4 candidates named for med school dean
A University of Hawaii search committee has selected four candidates for the dean's position at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.
One candidate, Dr. Kenneth Ward, is chairman of obstetrics and gynecology in the school's Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health.
The other candidates are Dr. Neal Cohen of the University of California-San Francisco, Dr. Bruce Jarrell of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Dr. Bonita Stanton of the Wayne State University School of Medicine.
The four are to pay official visits to UH this month.
"The search committee did an excellent job of identifying quality candidates for the dean's position," interim Manoa Chancellor Denise Konan said yesterday.
"I hope that the campus community will take advantage of opportunities to hear what these candidates have to offer," Konan said. "We always welcome feedback and comments from the campus, and that will be important to the process as we make a recommendation to the Board of Regents later this year."
The school of medicine has not had a permanent dean since February 2005, when Edwin Cadman took medical leave. Cadman announced a few months later that he would not be returning.
Don Ho still laid back
Almost a week after being released from a Honolulu hospital, entertainer Don Ho continues to rest.
Ho entered the undisclosed hospital to have his pacemaker replaced. Nearly a year ago, he underwent experimental treatment in Thailand for his weakened heart.
On Thursday, Ho went straight from the hospital to Eastern Garden on Keeaumoku Street, one of his favorite restaurants.
[ SHINING STARS ]
Friedl, Malahoff named Marine Technology Society Fellows at Oceans MTS conference
William Friedl of Kailua and
Alexander Malahoff of Honolulu were named Marine Technology Society Fellows at the Oceans MTS 2006 Conference in Boston for their contributions to their professions.
Friedl is the sole proprietor of the consulting firm BDI Maritime in Kailua. He was a former research scientist for the Navy at the Hawaii Laboratory of Naval Sea Systems Command.
When he retired in 1993, he joined Hawaii's National Defense Center of Excellence for Research in Ocean Sciences. For the past six years he has chaired the MTS Hawaii section, tripling its membership.
Malahoff has worked as chief scientist for the National Ocean Survey of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as director of the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) and as a professor at the University of Hawaii.
While director of HURL, he developed and executed one of the most capable deep-diving research systems in the world, according to a release.
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Police, Fire, Courts
Star-Bulletin staff
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WINDWARD OAHU
Driver held in alleged ramming of police car
Police arrested a 37-year-old driver yesterday after he allegedly rammed a police officer's car, injuring the officer, also 37, during a traffic stop in Waimanalo.
The officer stopped the driver in front of 41-560 Kalanianaole Highway at 3:10 p.m. yesterday.
The driver pulled over to the side of the road, then reversed and allegedly smashed into the officer's subsidized car, injuring the officer and rendering his car inoperable, police said.
Responding police units followed the suspect's car, which collided with a stone wall near Shriners Beach Club, police said.
Police arrested the man, who has no local address but frequents the Waimanalo area, on suspicion of first-degree criminal property damage, fleeing the scene of an accident and driving without a license.
A 34-year-old female passenger was arrested on suspicion of two counts of contempt, third-degree possession of dangerous drugs and drug paraphernalia, police said.
The officer was taken to Castle Medical Center, where he was treated and released in good condition.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Big Island brush fire endangers no property
PUUANAHULU, Hawaii » A 200-acre brush fire just north of Puuanahulu in West Hawaii was causing inconvenience due to smoke yesterday but posed no danger to property, Civil Defense head Troy Kindred said.
Reported at 11:13 a.m., the fire was abut 200 yards below Mamalahoa Highway, making little headway because shifting winds were blowing it back onto itself, Kindred said.
Although bulldozers and helicopter water drops were unable to contain it by yesterday evening, old, thinly vegetated aa lava flows north and south of it meant that the only directions it could burn would be uphill or downhill, where there is no property to threaten.
The highway was closed late in the afternoon while a "backburn" was under way along the road to prevent a spread uphill.
CENTRAL OAHU
Police arrest woman for threats and assault
Police said a 40-year-old Wahiawa woman attacked a police officer who was arresting her for allegedly threatening her son.
Police said the woman was drunk when she got home from work at about 6 p.m. Monday. She then threatened her 20-year-old son with a knife, police said.
An officer arrested her for investigation of first-degree terroristic threatening. As the officer, a 44-year-old man, was escorting her to a patrol car, she kicked him in the groin, police said.
She was then arrested for investigation of first-degree assault on a police officer.