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Sunday, June 1st, 2025
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Good morning, Honolulu. Here's your local news at a glance for Sunday, the 1st of June.
COMMUNITY NEWS
- ➤ Volunteers spent Saturday morning cleaning up a long-neglected cemetery in Pearl City. Friends of Sunset Memorial, a nonprofit group dedicated to preserving the park, removed trash and trimmed grass—efforts aimed at restoring a site with sunken graves and missing markers. Hawaii News Now
- ➤ Community volunteers worked Saturday to clean up a long-neglected cemetery in Pearl City. Hawaii News Now
- ➤ Hawai’i Foodbank is providing free summer meals for keiki on Oʻahu during the school break. The program offers meals at several sites and weekly meal boxes from early June through early August — no registration is needed for eligible families. KITV
ACCIDENTS NEWS
- ➤ A motorcyclist is in critical condition after a crash on Kamehameha Highway in the Kahaluu area at 10:37 p.m. Friday night. Hawaii News Now
CRIME NEWS
- ➤ Police arrested three males aged 17, 20 and 21 for a Makaha shooting that killed a 19-year-old man and injured four others on May 28. KITV
ECONOMY NEWS
- ➤ According to DBEDT, visitor arrivals in April increased 7.9% to 833,219 while spending rose 9.4% to $1.69 billion, marking a near recovery from 2019 levels with most growth from U.S. West and East markets. The report warns that tourism will slow slightly this summer due to political and economic uncertainties—though a rebound is expected in 2026. Hawaii Free Press
ENVIRONMENT NEWS
- ➤ On May 29, the Center for Biological Diversity sued the Air Force and Fish and Wildlife Service for not releasing records on plans to build landing pads for SpaceX rockets on Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, a vital site for seabirds and marine life. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii (in Honolulu) and the records are expected (within two to three months) to reveal whether the environmental review meets legal standards. Hawaii Free Press
- ➤ On May 25, the eruption at Halemaʻumaʻu reached record lava fountain heights of about 1,150 feet — the highest observed during the ongoing eruption that began on Dec. 23 — and the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory updated its volcano alert notifications to better warn island residents and aviators of airborne hazards. Hawaii Tribune-Herald
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