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The Honolulu Advertiser - Local News Local News articles for Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Local News
•	Hawaii libraries face challenges ahead
•	1,000-home Hawaii subdivision planned
•	Hawaii rated near top in emergency readiness
•	Some Hawaii fans stuck in Sugar Bowl end zone
•	Bedtime story tradition fading
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
•	Senate OKs $70B in war funding
LEGISLATURE
•	Hawaii House member switching from GOP
STATE GOVERNMENT
•	Search on to fill vacancies at historic preservation agency
•	$842M in Hawaii harbor upgrades OK'd
CITY GOVERNMENT
•	Drug discount plan free to all on Oahu
MILITARY AFFAIRS
•	Schofield soldier, 19, dies in Iraq
EDUCATION
•	Hawaii school helped 35,000 last fiscal year
POLICE
•	Hawaii fatality renews calls for safe driving
FIRE
•	Pair rescued after sailboat runs aground
MY COMMUNITIES
•	Winter break reading program starts Friday
•	Second meeting slated on Lako Street extension
•	Recycling drive on Jan. 5 benefits Boy Scout troop
•	Organic garden growing at Maui Prep Academy
•	Grant awarded to help native plant revegetation
•	Final $3.8 million released for bigger Manoa library
•	'Very Best of Christmas Talk Story' scheduled
•	'Ewa Weed & Seed gets $10,000 Haseko grant
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
•	Maui harbor rule over ferry eased
•	Obituaries
ADVERTISER CHRISTMAS FUND
•	Hawaii single mother works hard for her kids