Maui News

A Hāna residential scrap metals recycling event is set for 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. March 3-5 at the Hāna Landfill.

Maui County has set up a new web page as part of the formation of the new County Department of Agriculture. Voters approved a Maui County Charter amendment in November 2020 for establishment of the department, which will officially launch in July 2022.

The Office on Aging is seeking nominations for Maui County’s 53nd Annual Outstanding Older Americans. The recognition program is held each May in conjunction with Older Americans Month to recognize elders across the nation for their extraordinary efforts and contributions to society.

The updated West Maui Community Plan and its web map have been posted online by the Maui County Department of Planning.

The Planning Department has completed an interactive and publicly accessible map of pending and recently completed projects throughout Maui County.

Maui Nui Marine Resource Council is hosting a special “Know Your Ocean Speaker Series” presentation on Zoom on March 2 at 5:30 p.m. featuring Reef Power president Travis Liggett, who has created a new FlushAware app.

A blessing and grand opening event was held over the weekend for the newly constructed Stanley Izumigawa Resource Center at the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center in Wailuku, Maui. The new SIRC will allow the center to double its space for visitors, workshops and research requests.

The latest data represents a total of 6,646 “active” cases statewide over two weeks. This is below the delta peak of 11,500. Maui County’s seven day average of cases is now 27.6 cases per 100,000. This is below the delta peak of 57.6 per 100,000 reported on Aug. 25, and the 412.1 per 100,000 reported on Jan. 21, 2022.

UH Maui College set record one-year (2.5%) and three-year (29.2%) graduation rates for full-time first-time students as well as four-year and six-year rates for part-time students.

The company received a Notice of Violation Order with a $75,000 penalty from the Hawai‘i Department of Health for an incident involving the alleged overflow of beer into storm drains and the Waiawa stream near its O‘ahu warehouse in Waipiʻo.  

The Maui Invasive Species Committee is holding a teacher development workshop for K-12 teachers and environmental educators on March 14 and 15 featuring the place-based Hōʻike o Haleakalā curriculum. 

The state Department of Transportation is working on several road projects that will result in lane closures through Feb. 25, 2022.

A Hawaiian homestead nonprofit governed by enrolled members of the Sovereign Council of Hawaiian Homestead purchased a 6-unit apartment property in downtown Līhuʻe, Kauaʻi. 

Here’s some whale trivia about the wintering whales that come to Hawaiʻi each year to breed, give birth, and nurse their young.

California’s ASAP Holdings recently acquired longstanding Maui Seaside Hotel in Kahului and said it will be converted to an “upscale Hilton hotel.”

The members of the Oʻahu County Democratic Party’s House District 39 selection body – comprised of the party’s precinct officers and district council chair who reside in House District 39 – have selected three names to send to Governor David Ige for his consideration to fill the House vacancy created by the resignation of Ty Cullen from the Hawaiʻi State House of Representatives.

Todayʻs count includes 25 cases on Maui, 46 on Hawaiʻi Island, 42 on Kauaʻi, one on Molokaʻi, one on Lānaʻi, and 20 out of state.  There are 195 new COVID-19 cases on Oʻahu.

Governor David Ige announced the release of $364,445,224 for Capital Improvement Projects that will be administered by various state departments. These funds were released in November and December of 2021, and January of 2022. 

The deadline to apply for the Binhi at Ani Scholarship for graduating high school students is March 1, 2022. 

Councilmember Yuki Lei Sugimura of Maui expressed her support for a proposed Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Amendment from Mayor Michael Victorino that would create a micro-grants program for axis deer mitigation.