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Coconut WirelessWEDNESDAY, Dec. 5: It’s in the early afternoon, and I’m sitting in my Wailuku office. I’m trying not to think about the rain that’s drenching the state, the little droplets of water falling from the ceiling into three wastebaskets placed on and around my desk, that all email and Internet access suddenly and mysteriously cut out about a half hour ago and especially the condition of my Kihei apartment, which is possibly flooded and certainly without power until at least midnight. |
Rob ReportAre Maui's water resources properly managed?Last week’s storm-induced electrical outages and water line breaks recalled the line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”—“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink. |
LC WatchDuring their Dec. 12, 2007 hearing the Maui County Liquor Commission made the mighty Maui Land & Pineapple Company buy a metal shipping container. |
The Maui 10LAND, NO!: Man, the Pacific Business News website on Dec. 4 had some great news for local land developers. Let’s start with the story that median condo prices in Maui County went up even more in November, and now top $647,656, which is actually more than a single family home. |
THE MODERN MOTHER: Style and environment-conscious Canadian mothers insist on cloth diapers, especially designer labels of flannel, fleece or wool-knit, according to a November report in Toronto’s Globe and Mail. |
“Plantation Worker Luis Espina, who had not been off Lanai Island in 17 years, gasped when he saw row on row of the cannery’s machines core and peel 100 fresh pineapples a minute. |
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“I’m from Seattle. It’s great there—it’s really cool and the sky is always gray…”
-Guy at Fred’s Mexican Cantina in Kihei, June 10 |
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“A shell crashed ashore. In the dun-colored houses along Kahului’s waterfront, stevedores and their women heard the gun again, like a door slamming, and again the crash of the shell. The Jap fired ten rounds in all. Then the submarine disappeared in the night. Announcing this attack on an undefended, unimportant cane-&-pineapple port, the U.S. Navy reported: no casualties, negligible damage.”
-From “Dusk in Kahului,” Time Magazine, Dec. 28, 1941 |
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