WAILUA — The Wailua Cane Haul Bridge will close Wednesday and will remain closed until July, when a new Acrow panel bridge is in place, according to a press release from the contractor.

LIHU‘E — Bail for suspected burglar and thief Li‘ikaimana Damon Jack Cook is $16,000, according to the Kaua‘i Police Department.

PUHI — Doors to the Kaua‘i Community College open Monday morning, but KCC Chancellor Helen Cox was already excited Friday.

LIHU‘E — Ashlee Pasion Rita, 27, convicted felon and mother of three, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for numerous drug and property crimes Wednesday.

LIHU‘E — The emergency-room nurse who lost her ex-husband in one of the island’s last drownings of 2009 wants people to live and learn from his tragedy.

LIHU‘E — H1N1 influenza vaccinations will be available for the general public next week and Kaua‘i Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr. on Friday joined the nation in recognizing Jan. 10 through Jan. 16 as National Influenza Week.

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LIHU‘E — As part of the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. Day peace celebration, participants in the Retired Seniors Volunteer Program are spearheading a food drive, a county press release states.

KAPA‘A — When Joe Lopez moved to Wailua, a piece of Oregon came with him.

LIHU‘E — State cutbacks have led to the recent loss of 10 staff members at the Kaua‘i District Health Office, according to state Department of Health spokesperson Janice Okubo.

LIHU‘E — A local case of property rights, state-government authority and state and federal constitutional questions has been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

LIHU‘E — Kaua‘i County has filed a motion asking a state judge to unseal the county portion of the settlement in the Ka Loko Reservoir wrongful-death and property-damage civil cases.

As the day wore on, word had spread around the island that a local hunter had killed a mountain lion at Polihale.

LIHU‘E — Huge waves pounded Kaua‘i’s north- and west-facing shores on Thursday as 25- to 35-foot sets rolled in.

KALAHEO — Two Kaua‘i schools placed in the top three of the Arts Excellence Schools by the Hawai‘i Alliance for Arts Education program, Thursday.

In the spring of 1969, every kid’s Tarzan and Jane dream of tree houses on a tropical beach came true at Kaua‘i’s Taylor Camp when Howard Taylor, brother of actress Elizabeth, bailed out a rag-tag band of 13 young Mainland hippies jailed for vagrancy and then invited them to camp on his oceanfront land, a news release states.

Kaua‘i held its very first county fair on Saturday May 27, 1922, at the Lihu‘e Armory, which was located where the State Building now stands.

LIHU‘E — E.J. Resinto of Puhi, in his third year studying to be a Catholic priest, said his college expenses have been around $30,000 a year.

LIHU‘E — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has picked up the pace in federally registering 48 endangered Kaua‘i species in light of a lawsuit filed earlier this week in federal court by environmental activists.

HONOLULU — Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr. underscored the importance of Kaua‘i keeping its share of hotel tax revenue from the state in his testimony Wednesday morning during a joint hearing of the House Finance and Senate Ways and Means committees.