#Maui County

Coastal erosion and mitigation alternatives along Lower Honoapiʻilani Road at Kaopala Bay in Kahana will be discussed during a Maui County-hosted online community meeting via Zoom on Sept. 22.

A survey about alternatives for a grade-separated pedestrian crossing at Pi‘ilani Highway to serve the new Kūlanihāko‘i High School being built in Kīhei is now available.

The Maui County Planning Committee likely will discuss the ongoing dilemma about how pedestrians and bicyclists will safely cross four-lane Piʻilani Highway to the new Kūlanihākoʻi High School in Kīhei at its Sept. 1 meeting in Wailuku.

Maui Economic Opportunity is offering business planning classes with graduates eligible for up to $25,000 in grants for business start-up expenses.

The Maui County Council won a 2022 achievement award in civic engagement and public information for its youth engagement program at the National Association of Counties conference in Colorado.

Construction of the upper campus of the beautiful new Kīhei High School is expected to finally be completed enough to open in January for a small inaugural class of ninth graders, but the lack of a state-mandated grade-separated crossing may delay the opening.

In 2021, Maui County had record high numbers for firearm permits processed (2,938), firearms registered (8,149) and firearms imported (3,763), according to an annual report released today by the Hawaiʻi Department of the Attorney General.

At about 9:13 a.m. Sunday, Kahekili Highway was closed at Kahekili / Hoauna, Kahekili / Waiehu Beach and Kahekili / Na Wai Eha Place due to a motor vehicle accident.

Kaunoa Senior Services, a division of Maui County’s Department of Housing and Human Concerns, is offering a variety of online classes via Zoom in August for seniors 55 years old and older.

The Maui Nonprofit Directors Association is seeking nominations for Community Business and Humanitarian awards, and for Outstanding Nonprofit Executive Director. Applications are available at www.mauinonprofit.org. Applications may be mailed to Maui Nonprofit Directors Association, P.O. Box 1186, Puʻunene, HI 96784 or emailed to [email protected].

The Maui Economic Development Board is hosting a free virtual Maui TechOhana event on July 27 with guest speaker Omar Sultan, co-founder and managing partner of Sultan Ventures, a boutique venture investment firm.

Maui Now’s featured jobs from July 5 to 11, 2022.

Maui County has become the first county in the State of Hawai’i to establish its own Department of Agriculture.

Farmers and ranchers can receive a grant up to $30,000 for fencing and to cover crop damage and other losses caused by feral animals.

Maui Economic Opportunity’s Business Development Center hosted a financial literacy class for 30 teenagers to learn about budgeting, credit, saving – and the cost of raising children.

A full road closure of Mill Street, from Market Street to Central Avenue, in Wailuku began Saturday morning and will continue through Tuesday, June 28, until 6:00 pm, Maui County announced.

Beginning June 27, the County of Maui Department of Parks and Recreation will not provide walk-up service at permit windows on Tuesdays due to staffing shortages.

The deadline to apply for federally funded energy credit assistance for low-income residents — who are not in crisis but require help to pay their heating and cooling bills — is June 30 at 4:30 p.m.

The latest COVID-19 update from the State of Hawaiʻi shows the average number of new cases per day in Maui County is 86 over the week June 9-15, down 17 per day from the previous week.

Mālama Maui Nui’s monthly Go Green Recycling event for West Maui residents will take place in Lahaina on Saturday, June 18 from 9 am to noon at 1870 Honoapi’ilani Highway (parking lot behind the Lahaina District Court).