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The US Postal Service will open its first Village Post Office in the state this week at Hanzawa’s Variety Store in Haʻikū on the island of Maui.

The Pacific Whale Foundation is seeking volunteers to participate in the organization’s Great Whale Count, scheduled to take place from 7:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014.

“Naming the Kīhei high school in her honor will serve as a reminder to students that, with perseverance and hard work, one person can make a difference,” said Hokama.

Over the last 24 hours ending at 5 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, a gauge at the Kaupō Gap on Maui recorded 2.3 inches of rain.

Upon arrival at 9:26 a.m., crews from Engine-2 out of Pāʻia found the 600-square-foot shed burt to the ground, according to Captain Kris Sakamoto with the Maui Department of Fire and Public Safety.

Crews are actively searching the area with an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Barbers Point in an effort to rule out the possibility of anyone in distress.

Family members say Itsuki “Bucky” Taguchi was last seen at approximately 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 31, on the dirt service road mauka of Akolu Street, heading makai.

Currently Maui’s TAT revenue from hotel rooms is capped at $21.2 million, but distribution would increase by $16.4 million if the cap were removed, raising potential TAT revenues to $37.6 million.

Events happening around Maui this weekend.

The Maui High School science bowl team won the state title over the weekend, earning them a return spot in the national competition to be held in April in Washington, DC.

Because the demonstration was an educational event, no one was cited; however, organizers say that out of the 78 vehicles checked over a four hour period, only 30 had properly covered their loads, and 48 vehicles were found to be in violation.

A compressor that runs the refrigeration for the chillers at Times Supermarket in Kīhei blew, sending a white vapor cloud into the store shortly before 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 29.

The funds will be used for “due diligence activities,” to support the land acquisition, “including title search, property appraisal, and boundary surveys.”

State health officials say the images “resemble that of turtle feces,” and that reports have come from the same area in the past. The department currently tests water quality in the area twice a week.

The Polynesian Voyaging Society is the recipient of a five-year, $250,000 grant from Hawaiian Electric Industries, that will be used to support its historic world-wide voyage aboard the Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia canoes.

Concerned farmers and ranchers have dubbed the measure as an “anti-agriculture,” and “harassment bill.”

Mayor Arakawa said the request “falls right in line” with the discovery of an invasion of little fire ants on Maui that were found on hāpuʻu ferns shipped to Maui via distributors at Lowe’s and Home Depot on Hawaiʻi Island.

“These expanding businesses are requiring more and more employees, so it’s good news as far as the economy [ ] becoming much more stable and growing,” said Mayor Arakawa.

A groundbreaking and blessing ceremony will be held next week Thursday, Jan. 30, for the new Pu‘unēnē Shopping Center planned for development on 24 acres of land that will house the island’s first Target store.

The buses cost a total of $4.8 million and were acquired with 20% county funds, and 80% federal funding through the Federal Transit Administration’s competitive State of Good Repair grant.