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Environmental Benefits and Sustainability of Concrete, February 2008
Trade Publishing/Building Industry magazine and CCPI


Environment steers Grove Farm parking lot construction, February 1, 2008
The Garden Island, Dennis Fujimoto

PUHI - A team from R Electric team wasn't deterred by cloudy weather while installing two solar-powered lighting fixtures at the Grove Farm employee parking lot yesterday.

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Nene spread wings and take flight, June 13, 2007
The Garden Island, Dennis Fujimoto

KAPAʻIA - "This is a warm and fuzzy day," Al Silva, wildlife technician for the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, said yesterday as 11 endangered state birds took their first flight.

About six weeks ago, 11 nene goslings were introduced to their new habitat deep in the valleys of Kapaʻia. more »


Errors kill Kauai yearbook but uproar might revive it, June 12, 2007
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Tom Finnegan

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Piecing together a public beautification project, May 24, 2007
The Garden Island, Keya Keita

A wall that designates a planned housing project is not normally anything that would cause a second look. "Long, solid and stable" would adequately describe most. But in the case of Grove Farm's new subdivision off of Nohou Street behind Costco, something beautiful is happening to the long, solid and stable wall - by the hands of O'ahu artist Leah Kilpatrick Rigg. Some 15 mosaic panels highlighting Kaua'i's unique plants and flowers are currently in the last stages of installation, completing a year-long process of design, fabrication, preparation and installation. Co.
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Students learn language of eco-restoration, April 21, 2007
The Garden Island, Keya Keita

'ILIAHI - Last week 300 students from Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School participated in a joint eco-restoration project sponsored by the National Tropical Botanical Garden and Grove Farm Land and Development Co.
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Students' environmental film rewarded with grant, January 28, 2007
The Garden Island, Dennis Fujimoto


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Tresler joins Grove Farm, December 13, 2006
The Garden Island

Michael Tresler, the departing Kaua'i County finance director, will become a vice president at Grove Farm in January, company officials said yesterday.

He will oversee property management and renewable energy initiatives for the sugar plantation-turned-development company, which owns about 40,000 acres of Kaua'i land.
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Local Industry, December 2, 2006
The Garden Island, Charlotte Woolard

Warren Haruki is increasing Grove Farm's focus on positive economic growth while enhancing its land and water resources to meet Kaua'i's housing needs and to promote diversified agriculture.
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Grove Farm wins first of several lawsuits, November 26, 2006
The Garden Island, Amanda C. Gregg

Grove Farm prevailed in all aspects of a month-long civil trial that ended yesterday afternoon.
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Jury rejects lawsuit over Grove Farm sale, November 21, 2006
The Honolulu Starbulletin, Tom Finnegan

LIHUE » There was nothing wrong with the 2001 sale of the family-owned Grove Farm Co. to AOL founder Steve Case, according to a jury verdict reached yesterday.

After a four-week trial, jurors took only five hours to clear the five former board members of Grove Farm and the company of any wrongdoing in the $26 million sale, which pitted former shareholders and, at one point, cousins against each other. Former Grove Farm shareholder Michael Sheehan had sued the company and the board, as well as Case's Alps Acquisition Co., saying the board members had given Case a sweetheart deal.
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Growth and Sustainability, August 2006
Hawaii Business Magazine, Jacy L. Youn

Kaua'i's Grove Farm proves the two concepts are not mutually exclusive
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Grove Farm names new CEO, February 2005
Pacific Business News

Warren H. Haruki, a longtime executive with GTE Hawaiian Tel and Verizon Hawaii, has been named president and chief executive officer of Grove Farm Co. of Kaua'i.
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