From The Molokai Dispatch:

Molokai High School Athletics Department is struggling to keep afloat this year, lacking thousands of dollars needed for 196 students in the school’s 12 sports to participate in off-island games. Yet with a $40,000 budget shortfall for travel expenses, Athletic Director Hoku Haliniak is determined to keep Farmers sports programs intact.

“I refuse to cut away games,” said Haliniak. “There has to be a way — where there’s a will, there’s a way.” Read more.

And here’s the latest in other neighbor isle gov’t and politics:

Chopper goes down on Na Pali Coast

Tiger shark capture video on Hawaii Island sparks controversy

Second escapee caught in Hilo

BLNR to consider giving Naniloa Volcanoes Resort more time to sell

Kauai well drilling meetings to resume

County comes to defense of Leithead Todd

Affordable Waikapu housing project moves forward

Lawsuit accuses bionergy plant developers of fraud

South Maui waterline repaired

Scientists spy ‘fluffy disk’ floating around young star

Photo: Molokai sunset. (James Brennan Molokai Hawaii)

—Chad Blair