#Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company

A California company has purchased 339 acres of former Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company land in Pāʻia for an estimated $9.9 million, according to Maui Property Tax records.

The Maui Fire Department will be conducting a series of field burns in a wildland firefighting training exercise in Puʻunēnē today from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Matson Foundation has gifted the A Hui Hou Fund with a $100,000 grant to augment widespread community support for displaced sugar workers on Maui.

The Sugar Operators Support Taskforce was created a year ago today after HC&S announced it would be shutting down sugar operations on Maui by December 2016.

The US Department of Labor approved of a petition filed by the ILWU seeking adjustment assistance for bulk sugar workers who were affected by the HC&S closure on Maui

Sugar has had a significant impact on Maui’s culture, economy, landscape, development…even the surf scene, as you’ll hear in this final video in our series.

East Maui water rights will be one of the issues up for discussion at tomorrow’s Board of Land and Natural Resources meeting, scheduled to start at 9 a.m. at the Kalanimoku Building in Honolulu.

Robert Luuwai, vice president of factory operations at HC&S give us an inside look at mill operations and a bit of history about the original 1890 building.

A new scholarship fund specifically designed to support the Maui sugar industry workers and their children has been established amid the impending closure of HC&S.

HC&S General Manager, Rick Volner tells Maui Now that the company had a couple of major goals that they set out at the beginning of the year. “One was obviously finishing this last year and getting the sugar production and the crop through.”

As we head into the final quarter of 2016, Maui Now created a special Maui Sugar: End of an Era section that honors the industry, its workers and the plantation roots that have become a part of the last 145 years of Maui’s history.

The unscheduled cane fire burned about 200 acres next to Kaheka Road, which skirts around the west side of Hāliʻimaile Town.

Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar personnel conducted a scheduled cane burn between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. today near the area of this morning’s brush fire, but it is unclear if there the two fires were related.

An accidental cane fire was sparked by machinery during maintenance operations on Friday evening in a fallow sugar cane field off of the Haleakalā Highway at Keahua Road.

The federal funds will now cover all displaced Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company employees. This funding will benefit roughly 350 workers.

DBEDT director to share economic indicators in Hawaii; Business trends include a look at post-sugar on Maui

Crews do not expect the fire to be declared officially extinguished for at least another week or so because of hundreds of smoldering large kiawe trees.

The inaugural Plantation Festival has been rescheduled to Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Queen Ka’ahumanu Center.

In the Development & Sales sector, seven binding sales contracts were made at the 70-unit Keala O Wailea on Maui averaging $1.1 million per unit.

The new laws give the recently displaced HC&S and Mākena Prince Resort workers the resources to support their families as they transition to new jobs on Maui. The 2,800 workers represented approximately 3.5% of the 82,550 people who were employed in Maui County in February.