Maui News

Senator Mazie Hirono today will present Haleakalā NP a resolution commemorating the park’s Centennial. After the presentation she will plant `āhinahina (silverswords) with fourth grade students from Kula Elementary School.

Staff, students and community supporters at St. Anthony Junior-Senior High School celebrated the launch and blessing of a new Communications & Media Lab at the Wailuku campus.

Maui Electric Company and the Hawaiian Electric Industries Charitable Foundation presented Smart electric vehicles to the University of Hawai‘i Maui College, Boys & Girls Clubs of Maui, and Maui Hui Malama.

May they rest in peace. Maui Obituaries for the week of Nov. 20, 2016. Brought to you in part by Ballard Family Mortuaries

Dr. David Laufer disputed expert testimony presented by the prosecution in the murder trial of Steven Capobianco relating to jawbone injuries and offered an opinion saying marks were from a four legged creature, possibly a wild boar

Robert Luuwai, vice president of factory operations at HC&S give us an inside look at mill operations and a bit of history about the original 1890 building.

David Alex, 20, was last seen on Nov. 7, 2016 at approximately 10 a.m. in Kahului, Maui. He was reported missing two days later.

A renter was cleaning out his storage unit at the Kihei Maui Self Storage located at 115 East Lipoa Street in Kihei when he found a small unexploded ordnance in a metal container that was left behind by the previous renter.

The 16th year of Paddle for Hunger takes place this year on Thanksgiving Day to support Maui Food Bank in its mission to help feed the hungry.

An estimated 2,000 samples were collected and the little fire ant infestation is estimated to be 12 acres in Kapalua, though that acreage may increase as further surveys are conducted.

The newly completed Hope Lodge Hawaii will provide lodging and amenities, free of charge, to cancer patients who travel from the neighbor islands for treatment.

The exercise will be conducted on Friday, Nov. 18, 2016, at the Queen Kaʻahumanu Center located at 275 West Kaʻahumanu Avenue in Kahului, from approximately 6:30 a.m. until 8:30 a.m.

The Maui Mokupuni group hosts a meeting from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 19, at Kēōkea Marketplace to plan the Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole Hoʻolauleʻa and Parade proposed for April 1, 2017, in Wailuku.

Here on Maui, students will be celebrating the event from noon to 5 p.m. on the Great Lawn of the Kahului campus with educational materials, entertainment and sign-waving in support of a Smoke-Free initiative to be voted on Friday at the University’s Academic Senate meeting.

Alexandria Duval (also known as Allison Dadow), 37, was arrested on Friday, Nov. 11, 2016 in Albany, New York on the strength of a warrant issued in connection with a grand jury indictment late last month for second-degree murder.

An unidentified male drove up in a gold-colored SUV (unknown license plates, make/model) and approached the students. The male claimed the student’s father was hurt and that he would take them to him.

At 1:31 p.m. Wednesday, the fire department’s Air 1 helicopter located the wreckage of the missing helicopter.

Maui’s Kula Elementary School won $1,000 in cash as part of Kaiser Permanente’s semiannual Fire Up Your Feet Fall Activity Challenge. The funds will be used to fund the purchase of physical activity and sports equipment or support wellness initiatives on campus.

The study is the first to show the extent of the impact of wastewater injection wells at Kahului Wastewater Reclamation Facility on Maui.

Hawaiʻi Representative Clift Tsuji, 75, passed away at the Queen’s Medical Center on Oʻahu today. Tsuji was born on Jan. 20, 1941 and was raised in Pāpaʻikou.