Hurricane Season: June 1 – November 30 (Most active from July through October) Download Hurricane Preparedness Flyer English | Tagalog | Ilocano | Kosraean Lāna‘i Fact: If harbor operations are disrupted, resupply shipments may be delayed. Plan to have enough food, water, medications and essential supplies for at least 14 days. Why Prepare Now? Experts […]
On May 23, families, teachers and friends filled the Pedro Dela Cruz Gym to celebrate the graduation of another class of pine lads and lasses. The Lānaʻi High & Elementary School Class of 2026 crossed the stage and stepped into the next chapter of their lives. For the 48 graduates, the moment was the culmination […]
From ocean to shore, ʻuaʻu kani depend on safe nesting habitat. In December 2025, community volunteers partnered with Pūlama Lānaʻi to remove invasive kiawe at Hulopoʻe Bay. Now, drone imagery and GIS analysis are helping track vegetation change and inform ongoing restoration. Check out our story map: Hulopoʻe Ecological Restoration Project 2025-2026
On Sundays, the studio hums. Music pulses through the room, feet shuffle across the floor and dancers move in sync. In the middle of it all is Hualani Obrero-Zablan, calling out cues and offering encouragement. One class ends, another begins. The music continues, dancers rotate and Hualani remains — grounded, in her element, from noon […]
Contributed by Nelinia Cabiles The Halakahiki girls’ basketball team is a Lānaʻi club team made up of players ages nine to 17 from fourth through eleventh grades. The club functions as a feeder for the Lānaʻi High School girls’ basketball team. The team travels to Maui every weekend to play basketball against other club teams. […]
Collins Tamashiro knows golf and golf courses the way a fly fisherman knows fly lines and the reaches of a river, or a woodworker knows grains and hardwoods. His knowledge is both specific and broad, his learning acquired organically and over time, the base of which began developing long before he actually started playing the […]
Contributed by Nelinia Cabiles Near the end of the school year in 2016, Nyssa Sugiyama (née Barfield) and her best friend were hanging out at a coffee shop on Lānaʻi when the subject came up of where they might find work that summer. Four Seasons, the island’s luxury resort and a perennial choice among Lānaʻi’s […]
Contributed by Nelinia Cabiles On December 7, 2024, about forty volunteers signed up for a Lānaʻi Culture and Heritage Center clean-up and stewardship event in collaboration with Pūlama Lānaʻi’s Culture and Historic Preservation Department and picked up marine debris along the shoreline of Waiaʻōpae, Lānaʻi’s largest loko iʻa. They also cut back or uprooted kiawe […]
When she is working, Mary Claire Bolo is out in space, some 25,000 feet in the air, flat on her belly, and burrowed in a tanker’s crawlspace that might cause immediate agita for a claustrophobe, if it were not for a small window that offers a sweeping view of the sky. And maybe even then […]
When Eustaquio Berganio graduated from Lānaʻi High & Elementary School in 1984, he already had a clear idea of the work he wanted to do in life. He knew it would involve using his hands, being precise, and building things with wood that were straight and plumb and sturdy. High marks in Wood Shop classes […]
