Daily Archives: November 20th, 2008
Destination Wedding: Maui
Posted in Maui news
Looking for a warm, tropical location lush with palm trees and colorful flowers for your wedding venue? Maui may be your ideal location. Planning a wedding here may seem like a daunting task, but with careful preparation you can have the Hawaiian wedding of your dreams.
Flash-flood watch issued for islands
Posted in Maui news
HONOLULU -- The National Weather Service has issued a flash-flood watch for all Hawaiian islands as a band of heavy rain is forecast to spread from Kauai east across the state beginning late tonight continuing through Friday.
Maui, Hawaii: Outdoor Movies at the Maui Film Festival
Posted in Maui news
The jokey name “Sanddance” both overstates and understates the place of the Maui Film Festival in the pantheon of international film festivals.
Fire that blackened 1,000 acres ‘behaving’
Posted in Maui news
Firefighters from Maui and Lanai on Wednesday continued to deal with flare-ups and hot spots in a 1,000-acre area blackened by a massive brush fire on Lanai that forced an evacuation for the Manele Bay Resort on Tuesday afternoon.
Maui County Spokeswoman Mahina Martin said windy conditions were still hampering the firefighters Wednesday afternoon.
Teachers devastated by acts of vandalism
Posted in Maui news
WAILUKU - Vandals ravaged a St. Anthony Junior Senior High School building complex sometime Tuesday night, breaking into classrooms, smashing computer monitors, splattering paint on walls and emptying out lockers, said school spokeswoman Gin Nary.
"The teachers were devastated. We have very little, but what we do have, we try and maintain," she said of the private Catholic school in Wailuku.
Nishiki got loan from Dowling
Posted in Maui news
WAILUKU - Incoming Maui County Council Member Wayne Nishiki took a $100,000 business loan from development firm Dowling Co. in 2005, he reported in a disclosure filed with the county.
Nishiki was required to file the report in August but did not do so until Oct. 16, after repeated requests by county officials. As a result, the information was not publicly available until after the Nov.
Makena Resort debate pushes into overtime
Posted in Maui news
WAILUKU - It was a long day Wednesday of impassioned pleas to the Maui County Council - for and against the gigantic Makena Resort proposal.
The debate boiled down to a classic dilemma of development: jobs and dollars versus environmental and cultural impacts.
Almost 150 people signed up to testify before the council's Land Use Committee for the meeting in the Council Chambers.
