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Sixty percent of Waldorf’s student body biked, walked, scootered or skateboarded to school on Tuesday.

The ACLU filed a lawsuit today in federal court on behalf of four women who were banned by the state from marrying their fiancés, all of whom are men incarcerated at the Saguaro Correctional Facility in Eloy, Arizona.

May 23 will be the last day of operations for the West Kauai factory.

The city is soliciting bids for a transitional housing project in urban Honolulu.

The City has issued a Request for Proposals to invite agencies interested in partnering on the project, and will provide $3.5 million from the City’s Affordable Housing Fund to acquire and/or renovate an existing structure to provide transitional housing to homeless persons with special needs. A specific project site has not been identified. Funds will be awarded to a nonprofit agency that will be responsible for working with neighborhoods in urban Honolulu to obtain a community consensus that The Pathways Project is an acceptable means to address homelessness in their neighborhood. A specific project site will be identified to implement the project only after a positive community consensus has been achieved.

Sen. Carol Fukunaga, Rep. Karl Rhoads and Councilwoman Ann Kobayashi will host the 9 a.m. meeting at Makiki Christian Church.

They’ve invited city Department of Transportation Services Director Wayne Yoshioka to discuss plans for public safety in Makiki and the Ala Moana areas.

The meeting is scheduled for this Saturday, 9 am, at Makiki Christian Church.

US Naval Secretary Ray Mabus renamed the two Hawaii Superferry vessels – the Alakai and its sister ship, the Huakai, which never entered service in Hawaii waters – on Tuesday.

The selection of the name Guam honors the long-standing historical and military relationship between Guam and the United States.  This relationship began in 1898 when the United States acquired the island from Spain as a result of the “Treaty of Paris” that ended the Spanish-American War.  Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese captured Guam which they occupied until U.S. troops retook the island on July 21, 1944, a date commemorated every year as “Liberation Day”.  Guam continues to host many of the United States’ critical military installations in the Pacific Ocean.

“I am humbled by the vote of confidence the teachers have given me. These are difficult times. We must remain united in the pursuit of what is best for our profession and the children we teach,” Okabe said. “I want to thank those who voted for me and I want all members to know that I will work as hard as I can to do as much as I can for every member of our Association,” he said.

The Associated Press reports that only 22% of the union’s 13,000 members participated in the vote.

The outdoor bar in the center of Honolulu’s Waterfront Plaza office and restaurant complex has closed but may reopen under new ownership.

RIMPAC, the multinational military training exercise, will run this year from June 27 to August 7.

The state is poised to start hiring to fill jobs vacated due to budget constraints. On the list: food safety inspectors, quarantine inspectors, staffers in MedQuest, and more.

Carol Okada, Plant Quarantine Branch Manager:

“We’re dealing with a lot of snakes a lot of reptiles coming in. Hiring these inspectors means that we’ll be back in baggage claim looking at the passengers, looking at the freight forwarders, doing a better inspection.”

A range of organizations – from the Sierra Club to the Hawaii Independent – are petitioning legislators to protect government transparency.

An open letter to Mayor Carlisle in opposition to a new landfill in the Ka Iwi area.

Reward total now at $40,000

What I’m mostly concerned about is, what’s going to happen to my loving family, a family for college next? What’s going to come of them and many other homeless people? I don’t want to be attending my college and have to be worried about everyone while I am attending. So could you help us to overcome a very, very, important situation please? I know with God’s help, all of us who’ve been homeless for years, are going to overcome this obstacle!

My name is Gail D. Peeples. I’m one of many who lives at Kea‘au Beach Park along with my husband, daughter, son, son-in-law, and five minor grandchildren. We’ve all lived at Kea‘au Beach for approximately 15 years. We’ve also learned to adjust to living here over all the years.

More than 100 organizations and individuals came together today to oppose Governor Abercrombie’s nomination of Ted Yamamura to the state Commission on Water and Resource Management.

“A lot of us don’t have any vehicles at all to help us to get moving. The beach is pretty much all everyone knows. It has been our only home we know for a long, long time. It would be so greatly appreciated if we could have more time,” Gayle Peeples wrote. According to her letter, Peeples has lived at Kea‘au for 15 years, along with her husband, daughter, son, son-in-law, and five grandchildren.