BUSINESS BRIEFS
Tina Shelton leaving KHON
Advertiser Staff and News Services
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Longtime local television journalist Tina Shelton is leaving KHON Channel 2 to take a position with the University of Hawai'i medical school, the station announced yesterday.
Shelton will become the communications director for the John A. Burns School of Medicine. Shelton, whose last day at Channel 2 will be July 6, has been with KHON for eight years. The 25-year veteran of TV news also worked at KHVH news radio and KGMB-TV before joining KITV in 1985.
"She's been part of television news in this town for nearly three decades and we'll miss her experience, dedication and investigative reporting," news director Lori Silva said in an e-mail to the KHON staff.
BIG ISLAND MILK PRICES GOING UP
Big Island consumers will begin paying more for milk when a 26-cents-per-gallon wholesale price increase takes effect Sunday. The state-mandated increase is meant to offset rising labor, feed and insurance costs at the Big Island's three remaining dairies.
Currently, Big Island dairy farmers get a fixed $2.28 per gallon for their drinking milk. That's the wholesale price paid to farmers. The state last raised the wholesale price of Big Island milk by 25 cents a gallon in 2005, the first such increase in 13 years.
LAST DAY FOR $19 ONE-WAY TICKETS
Hawai'i's airlines are again offering $19 one-way fares for interisland tickets purchased on the Internet by today.
Hawaiian Airlines, Aloha Airlines and go! said the fares are good for travel through July 12. Restrictions apply and all tickets must be purchased from the airlines' Web sites. The carriers don't say how many tickets they will sell at the $19 price.
Aloha and Hawaiian said tickets must be purchased by midnight tonight. On its Web site, go! said its offer is good until 9 a.m. today.
