#Buddy Nobriga

The blueprint to attract students to St. Anthony, the alma mater of Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen and Major League Baseball two-time champion Shane Victorino, has been developed over the past year and is being implemented for K-12 for the 2025-26 school year.

A Plantation Days Festival is scheduled to celebrate the plantation era with the food and the cultures of a variety of ethnic groups, many whose descendants came to work in the sugarcane fields. The celebration takes place at the Sugar Museum at 3957 Hansen Road on Oct. 1 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Here are some of the important headlines and stories you need to know around Maui.

David “Buddy” Nobriga, who was the patriarch of a family with roots five generations deep on Maui, died peacefully on Wednesday at the age of 90.

Maui Soda & Ice Works executives say the 2017 forecast looks bright for the family-owned company, which this year marks its 129th year of doing business on Maui

By Wendy Osher [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtIfcpkJbgI[/youtube] The county broke ground today on the long awaited Lahaina Watershed Flood Control Project.  The project is designed to divert floodwater from the heavily populated Lahainaluna, Puamana and the surrounding area.  Maui Mayor Charmaine Tavares said that after 30 years of planning, a half a century of discussion, she is pleased […]

Maui’s David “Buddy” Nobriga is one of four people in the pacific islands recognized as environmental heroes by the U.S. EPA.  The award was issued during the agency’s 11th annual Environmental Awards Ceremony in San Francisco earlier this month.  Nobriga was recognized for founding the West Maui Soil and Water Conservation District in 1956, the […]