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Maui Arts & Cultural Center has announced the winners of the Ruth Freedman People’s Choice Award and Gene Freedman Artists’ Choice Award for Schaefer Portrait Challenge 2025.

A signature of Maui Arts and Cultural Center, the Schaefer Portrait Challenge, has been held as a triennial since 2003. This year’s challenge will mark the eighth iteration of this statewide juried exhibition, which presents the unique diversity of the people of the Hawaiian Islands through explorations in portraiture.

A Hawaii-based soldier was killed over the weekend from wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his vehicle with grenades.  The incident was reported in Ba Qubah, Iraq on Sunday, August 15. The Department of Defense identified the soldier as Spc. Jamal M. Rhett, 24, of Palmyra, N.J. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry […]