Posted on: Thursday, December 9, 2004
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
More UH library services restored
Advertiser Staff
With University of Hawai'i students in the midst of final semester exams this week and next, Hamilton Library has extended its paging hours from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Though the library is still in the last few weeks of being cleaned and sterilized after the damage sustained in the Oct. 30 flood, staff have also managed to open up a single computer room with 12 computers, with entry off Maile Way.
Sinclair Library has also extended its hours during finals, opening the library until midnight nightly through Dec. 16.
A 24-hour study center to the left of the entry on the ground floor has also been opened. The study area has a handful of computers for Internet and catalogue searches, and between 50 and 100 carrels where students can work, said head librarian Gregg Geary.
A car crashed into a utility pole on Farrington Highway near Honokai Hale last night, knocking out electricity to the area for several hours.
No one was seriously hurt in the 6:20 p.m. crash. But the accident cut power to about 500 Hawaiian Electric customers in the Ko Olina and Honokai Hale areas, said HECO spokesman Jose Dizon.
Power to most customers was restored at 7:43 p.m., but there were still some homes in Honokai Hale without power as of 10:15 p.m.
The state Transportation Department is planning another — and perhaps final — round of lane closures in the Castle Junction area of Kalaniana'ole Highway tomorrow and Saturday.
The right town-bound lane of the highway will be closed between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. tomorrow and between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday for restriping, DOT spokesman Scott Ishikawa said.
The restriping is the last part of 10-month-long hillside-clearing project that has caused periodic lane closings and delays.
Weather permitting, DOT hopes to open all three lanes of the highway, including a wider and longer right turn lane, to traffic early next week, Ishikawa said.
Car crash cuts power to 500
Weekend lane closures again
