Four Lānaʻi High School students in the Lānaʻi Military Prep program represented the island at the Army Ten-Miler in Washington, D.C. The race drew more than 27,000 runners from around the world. Their months of early-morning training led to a proud finish on a national stage.

After twenty-three years of running the Mike Carroll Gallery, Mike and Kathy Carroll have closed their doors, not to leave but to begin again. What started as a visit to Lānaʻi in 1999 became a life built around art, community, and persistence, and now their next chapter continues as Deep Hawaiʻi Art takes over the historic space they helped define.

After fifteen years surrounded by the sounds of brass, woodwinds, and ukuleles in the Lānaʻi High and Elementary band room, Kerri Glickstein now leads a space where quiet is part of the job: the library.