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Starting this week, April 15, and every third Thursday of the month, Sunset Market at Wailea Village will partner with Kimokeo Kapahulehua to bring cultural programs to the Market.

St. Anthony School in Wailuku has started a search for a new Head of School, and has launched an Executive Transition Search Committee to ensure a smooth transition. The school has also secured Catholic search firm, Partners in Mission to guide the search.

The Maui Community Correctional Center is now clear of all active COVID-19 cases, according to the state Department of Public Safety. The department today reported that the remaining two inmates with active positive cases have since recovered.

The state Department of Health reports that there were 70 additional COVID-19 cases reported in Hawai‘i on Monday, including 48 on O‘ahu, 15 on Maui, five on Hawai‘i Island, and two in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed while out of state. There were a total of 1,278 cases logged over the past two weeks, 317 of them in Maui County.

“Cooking Hawaiian Style,” a locally produced television show, set up its outdoor kitchen at Kula Country Farms and Kaonoulu Ranch on the Valley Isle this week.

A winter weather advisory was in effect yesterday through midnight as a passing disturbance brought fleeting snow to the upper elevations of Haleakala and more frigid conditions to the Big Island Summits.

The Summit District of Haleakalā National Park is temporarily closed due to winter weather conditions effective April 11, 2021 at 3 p.m. The closure begins at the Summit Entrance Station on Haleakalā Highway extending up to the summit. The Summit District of Haleakalā National Park will reopen once conditions improve.

The National Weather Service says a passing disturbance aloft is producing snow showers above 9,000 feet. Chances for snow will diminish late this afternoon and evening.

The state Department of Health reports that there were 92 additional COVID-19 cases reported in Hawai‘i on Sunday, including 72 on O‘ahu, 11 on Maui, six on Hawai‘i Island, and three in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed while out of state. There were a total of 1,307 cases logged over the past two weeks, 337 of them in Maui County.

Here on Maui, April numbers are exceeding pre-pandemic levels for the same period in 2018 and 2019. The DBEDT preliminary data shows that so far in April, there’s an average of 6,441 passengers arriving daily to Kahului Airport on domestic (including mainland and interisland) flights, up 7.2 percent (433 more passengers) from two years ago in 2019, and up 14 percent (793 more passengers) from three years ago in 2018.

The state Department of Health reports that there were 114 additional COVID-19 cases reported in Hawai‘i on Saturday, including 74 on O‘ahu, 27 on Maui, 12 on Hawai‘i Island, and one in a Hawai‘i resident diagnosed while out of state. There were a total of 1,320 cases logged over the past two weeks, 352 of them in Maui County.

The Maui District Health Office has three Moderna clinics and one Johnson and Johnson vaccine clinic planned this month at the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College.

One of the owners of the Wahiawa Dam, the Dole Food Company Hawai‘i on O‘ahu, was fined $20,000. The owner of the Keaīwa Reservoir on Hawai‘i Island, the Edmund C. Olson Trust No. II, was fined $7,500.

Governor David Ige signed a 19th emergency proclamation for COVID-19 on Friday, which extends the eviction moratorium, prohibiting evictions of tenants for failure to pay all or a portion of the rent, maintenance fees, utility charges, taxes or other required fees for the rental unit.

“It is a huge loss for all of us, not for only his ʻohana here at ʻImiloa, but for the many who were fortunate to know Kālepa as a crewmember, captain and navigator aboard Hōkūleʻa throughout the Pacific and beyond,” said Kimura.

Crews renovated three former dorm buildings into 12 two-bedroom apartment in an effort to provide safe, affordable housing for families who have fallen into homelessness.

The state Department of Health reports that there were 87 additional COVID-19 cases reported in Hawai‘i on Friday, including 67 on O‘ahu, 11 on Maui, four on Hawai‘i Island, and five in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed while out of state. There were a total of 1,312 cases logged over the past two weeks, 356 of them in Maui County.

A California man was airlifted to safety after suffering injuries while jumping off of a 40 foot waterfall at Twin Falls in Haʻikū, Maui.

The incident was reported at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at Makāluapuna Point, in the area sometimes called “Dragon’s Teeth.”

The state Department of Health reports that there were 122 additional COVID-19 cases reported in Hawai‘i on Thursday, including 70 on O‘ahu, 40 on Maui, 10 on Hawai‘i Island, one on Kaua‘i, and one in a Hawai‘i resident diagnosed while out of state. There were a total of 1,350 cases logged over the past two weeks, 389 of them in Maui County.