Maui News

The Maui County Department of Fire and Public Safety will begin installing smoke alarms at high risk homes in October, under the federally funded Smoke Alarm Maui Program.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs awarded more than $718,000 in scholarship money to 303 Native Hawaiian students who are seeking a college education.

The school announced the promotion of Kawika Casco and Ryan Kirkham. Faculty additions for 2012 include: Angie Glass, Dr. Kathleen Ireland, Kay Milne, and Kristie Fetterly,

In the Department of Education’s team of the year category, three of the eight finalists are from Valley Isle.

The outage was reported before 6:30 p.m. and is due to a broken service lateral. DWS officials say crews are working on repairs to the line, and expect to have service restored within three hours.

“We know that this situation was an inconvenience for our customers in South Maui and we sincerely apologize,” said MECO.

Upon arrival, medics found a silver sedan vehicle that had crashed into a street sweeper about a quarter mile south of the Kahili Golf Course on the Honoapiilani Highway.

After five years as Maui area superintendent for the Baldwin-Kekaulike-Maui complex, Bruce Anderson, will transition away from the post and take on a new role as principal at Maui High School.

Lokelani Intermediate School will be closing today, September 6, 2012, due to a school wide power outage.School personnel are currently contacting parents to pick up students.

Three men ranging in age from 18 to 20 were transported to the hospital in stable condition after the jeep they were in rolled over and down a 30 foot embankment near the old Maui High School.

MECO officials say an estimated 13,000 customers in Kihei and Wailea lost electrical power just before 2:40 this afternoon.

The 2012 Maui SAREX, or Search and Rescue Exercise, will run from 9 a.m. to noon at the ocean area fronting the old Suda Store along South Kihei Road.

The re-branding effort includes a new series of workshops in which participants will help to define the town’s brand. After a series of workshops focused on infrastructure and planning, the reWAILUKU initiative continues to evolve, this time with the “reBRANDING” of Wailuku Town.

Reality TV film crews will be in old Wailuku Town this week where filming begins on the proposed Pawn Stories pilot episode.

Boy Scouts on Maui with Troop 14 from Kula spent a recent weekend constructing a 300-foot trail, and expanding native reforestation at the Pu‘u Mahoe cinder cone.

Kaupakalua Road is now OPEN. The road was closed at around 5:45 this morning due to a large tree that had fallen down. The road has since been cleared and police reopened the road at 9:20 a.m.

UPDATE: Hawaii News Now reports that the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has since issued an ALL CLEAR for Hawaii following a 7.6 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Costa Rica this morning.

For the first time in a dozen years, regularly scheduled air service will resume in the remote East Maui town of Hana.

Displaced occupants of the Valley Isle Resort were on property today recovering thier belongings after a Labor Day fire on the resort grounds gutted a gym, offices and other resort facilities.

Crews from Maui Fire & Flood are on location today cleaning units at the Valley Isle Resort, where a structure fire caused an estimated $1.4 million in damage on Monday.