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  • 2 weeks ago | khon2.com | Howard Dashefsky

    HONOLULU (KHON2) — With the first season of girls’ flag football in the books, many are already looking forward to bigger things, including the 2028 summer games in Los Angeles, where the sport will make its Olympic debut. Kamehameha Schools sophomore Hayden Kaahanui-Cera has been playing flag football since she was four years old. “Flag football to me is basically my second home,” Kaahanui-Cera said.

  • 2 weeks ago | khon2.com | Howard Dashefsky

    HONOLULU (KHON2) — Signing Day is something KHON2 has covered many times in recent years, as athletes put pen to paper signing a letter of intent to attend the college of their choice. Over at St. Louis School, another signing day was held, not for athletes, but for other rising stars — future engineers, computer programmers and more.

  • 2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Howard Dashefsky

    HONOLULU (KHON2) — Signing Day is something KHON2 has covered many times in recent years, as athletes put pen to paper signing a letter of intent to attend the college of their choice. Over at St. Louis School, another signing day was held, not for athletes, but for other rising stars — future engineers, computer programmers and more.

  • Mar 8, 2025 | khon2.com | Howard Dashefsky

    HONOLULU (KHON2) — Whether docked at Sand Island or out at sea, the Hōkūleʻa is more than a voyaging canoe. She serves as the ultimate educational tool and Kaiulani Murphy is much more than just a teacher. “To me, Hōkūleʻa represents so much. She stands for the brilliance of our kūpuna. The genius of being able to travel the way that they did for so many years without instruments, just using natural clues,” said Murphy.

  • Mar 8, 2025 | khon2.com | Howard Dashefsky

    HONOLULU (KHON2) — The story of Hōkūleʻa is one that in many ways dates back some 2000 years. It’s also a story that was rarely told because so many thought it to be impossible. Anthropologist Ben Finney, waterman and researcher Tommy Holmes and artist and historian Herb Kane, who would later form the Polynesian Voyaging Society, connected the many islands of the ocean, as well as their peoples and cultures, in a double hulled voyaging canoe.

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