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Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Friday, January 12, 2001
The buyer of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin is holding a job fair tomorrow to help fill more than 100 openings at the newspaper. Oahu Publications, a unit of Victoria, British Columbia-based Black Press Ltd., has scheduled the fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at a Restaurant Row office next to the Burger King. Positions are available in accounting, advertising sales, advertising design, telemarketing and circulation. Job applicants should bring their resumes. Black Press will take over the Star-Bulletin on March 16. Job fair seeking
newspaper workers
Bulletin closing archive
Bankoh opens branch in Poipu
Bank of Hawaii has opened its sixth branch on Kauai, establishing its first location in the resort town of Poipu.The new facility at the Poipu Shopping Village opened last month. It is 640 square feet and includes a customer service counter, ATM machine and a telephone banking kiosk, but no tellers. A grand opening was held yesterday.
The branch has four employees, and is closed on weekends, the company said.
Waikiki hotel, land put on the market
The Ohana Waikiki Hobron Hotel and three acres of land under it are on the market for $38 million by its Japan-based owner Odakyu Electric Railway Co.Odakyu has retained real estate firm Colliers Monroe Friedlander to sell the mostly fee-simple property, which also houses several low-rise apartments.
The Hobron Lane property, near the Hawaii Convention Center, is zoned for apartments, but allows for the 612-room hotel, formerly the Outrigger Hobron.
In other news . . .
WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp.'s breakup is a "lawful and appropriate" remedy for the software giant's illegal campaign to protect its Windows monopoly, the Clinton administration said today in its last filing in the landmark antitrust case. The Justice Department and 17 states urged a federal appeals court to affirm U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling to break up the world's largest software company.
