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The Warriors had a chance to clinch the league title on Saturday, but gave up a three-run lead and lost to the Bears, 6-4. Tuesday, Kamehameha Maui beat Baldwin 8-0 to claim its second league baseball championship. The Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA state tournament is set for May 7-10 at Maehara Stadium.
The network has grown to 6,200 trees across 25 grow hubs, with volunteers like the Williams family, who lost their home in the Lahaina fire and are now growing trees to give back to the community.
The Spartans are headed to the Wally Yonamine Foundation/HHSAA Division II state tournament May 8-10 on O'ahu.
Maui County has $43.5 million to spend in its Affordable Housing Fund for the fiscal year that starts July 1. The funds would help with planning and construction for new projects and repairs for aging ones.
In water polo, the Bears have outscored Maui Interscholastic League opponents 107-27 so far this season. Baldwin can wrap up a third straight league title in the MIL tournament this week.
Plan on track to be submitted this week, with applications taken for programs in the summer.
Maui County is hoping increased rates as high as 25%, along with stricter measures that include limits on when people can water their lawns during a shortage, will curb water usage.
Maui County is hoping to bring another well online by this summer, but it would be limited to temporary housing projects and homes rebuilt after the 2023 wildfire.
As spring season winds down, Warriors baseball team and Sabers boys volleyball team know they will be in their state tournaments. MIL track also shining through.
In the pandemic, Maui Health had to run an emergency operations center, set up community clinics, tap into other health care facilities for assistance and communicate better with staff and the community.
The decision granting another year of NCAA eligibility to former junior college players has allowed Moloka'i graduate Uso Seumalo and Kamehameha Maui graduate Kapena Gushiken the chance to play this fall at Kansas State and Mississippi, respectively.
Nurses at Maui Memorial Medical Center during the COVID pandemic went to great lengths not to bring the virus home and spent months in isolation from loved ones and neighbors who applauded their bravery but feared being around them.
Some owners are selling, and related businesses like cleaning services are seeing a drop in jobs and income. "We're just kind of in purgatory," one property management company said.
The Maui Interscholastic League has sanctioned surfing as an official high school sport since 2014, and now the State Legislature is considering funding to make the sport sanctioned statewide at public schools.
One year after putting two teams in the Division I state championship game, the MIL has reached the midway point of the baseball season with three teams — Kamehameha Maui, Maui High and Baldwin — all separated by just one game.
Some property owners are seeing increases by as much as 50%, and even with a tax rate cut, they may still see a higher bill.
