On March 6 at the Palace Theater in Hilo, Project Peaceful Skies hosted the Good Medicine Show 2. The concert featured Clan Dyken. The intent of the event was to give exposure to the fact that Hawaii County voters chose to make marijuana enforcement the lowest law enforcement priority in the November 2008 election.

Erik Hazelhoff, Jr, who wrote under the name of E.H. Roelfzema was born in the Netherlands in 1947. As a teenager, he raced Formula 3 cars in England, Germany and Holland, traveled extensively in Europe, North Africa and the Caribbean before finding his way to Hawaii in the 1971 where he made his home for nearly 20 years in the Kohala and Hamakua districts of the Big Island.

Volcom Stone's Totally Crustaceous Tour hit East Hawaii on Feb. 27 for their final surf contest before the California main event.