Amid the hot button topics at this year's legislative session, a quiet resolution arose: a call for a yearly state poet laureate. Separately, the Maui Arts & Cultural Center named 18-year-old Kalehua Fung as its 2022 Hawaiʻi Youth Poet Laureate. The Conversation's Savannah Harriman-Pote has more.
Nāʻālehu Public Library in southern Hawaiʻi Island reopens to the public after two years of expansion and renovation projects. The library doubled in size with new amenities.