Maui News

West Maui Lawmaker, Angus McKelvey testified Wednesday before the Board of Education to reject a proposal by the State Librarian that seeks the closure the Lahaina Library. McKelvey says the library serves the entire area of West Maui, which on any given day has a population of about 20,000 people.  State Librarian Richard P. Burns […]

By Wendy Osher Members of the Hawaii Carpenters Union staged a small scale protest at two different sites on Maui today.  Banners were placed in front of the old Pizza Hut and future Wallgreens site in Kahului, a separate site in Lahaina and four Wallgreens locations on Oahu. Hawaii Carpenters Union Assistant Business Rep. Lance […]

The Maui Nui Botanical Gardens hosts a Native Hawaiian Plant Sale on Saturday, August 29, 2009.  Maui residents will have the opportunity to purchase Hawaiian plants to help support the ongoing conservation and educational programs at the Gardens. Come and learn about water conservation, plant care and plant maintenance from top experts. Participating vendors include: […]

A new county run program aims to increase home ownership for low-income families.  The Homeownership Option Program (HOP) will allow Section 8 HUD rental assistance participants to apply rental housing assistance payments toward mortgage payments instead.  The program is being launched by the County Department of Housing and Human Concerns. There are currently 1,360 participants […]

The Maui County Fair will host two new contests this year created exclusively for  students. The Parade Grand Marshall Contest will honor outstanding educators by inviting students (grades K-12) to nominate their favorite teacher as 2009 Maui County Fair Parade Grand Marshall. The winning educator in each category (Elementary I, grades K-2; Elementary II, 3 – 5; Intermediate, grades 6 […]

Hawaii is set to receive more than $7.6 million for Native Hawaiian education initiatives including cultural programs, curriculum expansion, tutoring, and resource development.  In announcing the funds, U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye said the money will come through a series of 14 grants from the U.S. Department of Education. The largest appropriation of $1,016,255 goes […]

Three time Grammy® Nominee and multi Nā HōkÅ« Hanohano award winner Amy Hānaiali’i released her latest project titled Amy Hānaiali’i: Friends & Family of Hawai’I today. The album features duets with 16 well known male vocalists and musicians of Hawai’i-including Palani Vaughan, Keali’i Reichel, John Cruz, Kaumaka’iwa Kanaka’ole and FIJI.  Hānaiali’i remains the highest selling […]

By Wendy Osher The Maui Economic Opportunity community action agency is currently operating seven stimulus fund initiatives and expects nearly $4 million in federal funding. Maui Economic Opportunity CEO, Sandy Baz was among the list of people who testified today (Monday, August 24, 2009) before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.  Today’s hearing was organized […]

Maui Council Chair Danny Mateo is being honored as one of 20 Outstanding Filipinos Abroad in 2009 by the national Filipino Image Magazine.  Mateo is recognized as the first person of Filipino descent to be elected as chair of the Maui County Council. Mateo is the eighth born of nine children and was raised in […]

By Wendy Osher The Maui High Performance Computing Center dedicated a new Supercomputer today that doubles the center’s computing power.  The Dell platform system has 103 TeraFLOPs (103 trillion Floating operations per second),  That’s 13 thousand times the computational capability of the original 8-giga FLOP (8 billion Floating Point Operations per second) system that was […]

Governor Linda Lingle is among the people set to testify on Monday on the progress of Hawaii’s spending of federal stimulus funds. More than $1 billion was appropriated for Hawaii in February through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations is being held to gauge the progress […]

Hawaii’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 7 percent in July-that’s an improvement of 0.3 percentage points below the previous month.  All islands saw improvement in rates in July, with Maui Island improving to 9.2 percent down from the 9.7 percent the month before.  Maui’s outer islands did better as well, but remained in the […]

Tickets were made available to the public this morning (Thursday August 20, 2009) for the 2009 EA SPORTS Maui Invitational Basketball tournament.  Booster Tickets are good for entry to all three Tournament games in which a particular school will participate. In addition, the following remaining ticket types also went on sale today, Aug. 20: Courtside […]

All County of Maui offices will be closed on Statehood Day, Friday August 21, and on Labor Day, Monday, September 7, 2009 in observance of the holidays. Statehood Day: Lanai Landfill: closed Central Maui Landfill: open 6 a.m. – noon Olowalu Recycling & Refuse Center: open 9 a.m. – noon Hana Landfill: open 8 a.m. […]

(Updated at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, August 20, 2009) A Kahului man died of injuries he sustained in a motorcycle accident earlier this week.  Authorities identified the man as 51-year-old Alberto C. Tejeda.  The man was traveling west on Papa Place when he lost control of the vehicle he was operating and collided into a raised […]

Two Maui projects are set to receive more than a million each in federal funding.  Maui is set to receive a total of $2.2 million in federal funding for the design of a Municipal parking garage in Wailuku and the construction of a renewable energy resource center in Kihei. The grant awards were announced this […]

The county plans to expose delinquent taxpayers in an effort to make up for $8.6 million in unpaid real property taxes.  Beginning in October, the County will publish a list of the top 25 delinquent accounts on its website, along with the names and accounts of all taxpayers with delinquent accounts that have existed for […]

Maui police seized more than $841,000 worth of processed marijuana-the largest seizure of its kind in the county’s history. Police recovered 130 pounds of processed marijuana during the search of freight sent from California to Maui on August 12th.  Officers also found 1.5 pounds of processed marijuana along with drug paraphernalia during the search of […]

Dozens of wildlife biologists will visit Hawai’i’s wetlands on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 for the statewide bi-annual waterbird survey. Department of Land and Natural Resources’ (DLNR) Division of Forestry and Wildlife staff and volunteers will survey more than 250 wetland sites where waterbirds are known to gather — including marshes, reservoirs, golf course canals, prawn […]

The county will reduce the amount of days it accepts greenwaste on Molokai.  Beginning August 21, the Molokai Landfill will reduce its greenwaste schedule from seven to four days per week.  The change in schedule was necessary to ensure the landfill complies with State Department of Health permit requirements and reduce the potential for fire […]