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One year after Maui High and Baldwin were in the state baseball championship game, two Maui Interscholastic League teams — Baldwin and Kamehameha Maui — are in the state semifinals at Maehara Stadium in Wailuku.

Mana Up, the Hawai‘i-based accelerator dedicated to growing local product businesses, is expanding to Maui with “The Mana Up Market” at Royal Lahaina Resort & Bungalows. Set to open in May 2025, this new retail space will showcase products from entrepreneurs who have participated in Mana Up’s statewide accelerator program — bringing their locally made goods to both residents and visitors to Maui.

The UHERO second quarter forecast for 2025 reports: “sharp increases in US import tariffs, sweeping federal layoffs, and volatile fiscal and immigration policies are undermining consumer confidence, raising inflation expectations, and worsening the business outlook—both nationally and in Hawaiʻi’s visitor-dependent economy.”

A Maui teacher, who along with other educators was detained by federal law enforcement officers during an early morning raid at a Kahului home Tuesday morning, said agents were looking for a convicted felon.

Bishop Larry Silva of the Diocese of Honolulu congratulated Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who the College of Cardinals elected Thursday as the new Holy Father to succeed Pope Francis.

Of the 41 local athletes to receive scholarship support from the foundation this year, seven were from Maui including: Kalia Kaneta and Kaysa Ong of Maui High School; Avery Kirkham of Maui Preparatory Academy; Kamakanōweo Kekauoha-Schultz and Bella Kuailani of King Kekaulike High School; and Kaili McMillin and Sage Ryden of Seabury Hall Academy.

ToolBank Disaster Services has officially launched operations on the island of Maui to support long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts.

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center presents singer/songwriter Justin Kawika Young in a MACC “Local Voices” concert in the McCoy Studio Theater Thursday, June 19 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale online only to MACC members on May 8, and to the general public May 9.

This contribution represents a quarter of all funds awarded to Hawaiʻi organizations and will support a range of initiatives focused on affordable housing, financial education and community revitalization, including Lahaina homeowner recovery efforts.

In celebration of World Bee Day, the Four Seasons Resort Maui is offering a new Bee Wonders Tour where guests can take part in a hive inspection, hands-on activities, and a honey and pastry tasting in the Chef’s Garden.

Maui Ocean Center will host Camp Kainani, a new summer day camp for children ages 7 to 14, during four sessions in June and July.

Hawaiian Electric is improving its outage reporting system on Hawaiʻi Island and in Maui County. As part of the new system, the current phone numbers to report outages will be replaced with new toll-free numbers, effective May 8, 2025.

Aloha House staff, board members and supporters conducted a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday, May 6 to celebrate the start of construction for a new Residential Substance Use Treatment Program dormitory.

A blessing was held over the weekend to bring into service a new wildland firefighting apparatus for the Maui Fire Department. This vehicle is the first of a total of seven new firefighting apparatus being donated to the Maui Fire Department through a collective effort by the Daniel R. Sayre Memorial Fund. The initiative is supported by the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation’s “Maui Strong Fund” as well as a contribution from Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.

US Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaiʻi) is speaking out against a reported ICE raid on a group of Maui teachers.

Maui Public Art Corps, in collaboration with the Maui Historical Society, the County of Maui and University of Hawaiʻi Foundation, has announced a new series of three large-scale murals at the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College.

US Sen. Brian Schatz took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to highlight Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Awareness Week.

A humpback whale missing part of its tail has been spotted off the coast of Anacortes, Wash., after completing a more than 2,600-mile journey from Maui.

Sadie Stafford, an 11th grader at Maui Preparatory Academy earned an Honorable Mention award for her pencil on paper artwork entitled “Sweet 15.”

Hawaiian Electric will continue to use unmanned aircraft, or drones, for aerial inspections of its infrastructure in Nāpili and Pu‘ukoli‘i on Thursday, May 8, as well as in Kula on Friday, May 9, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on both days, weather permitting.