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Maui County

Oh, Pioneers

Honoring the mixed legacy of Maui's plantation era

When the last Pioneer Mill Company building in Lahaina was torn down in 2006, an important piece of Maui's history went with it. Well, almost. The structures may be gone, but various groups, including the Lahaina Restoration Foundation (LRF), want to make sure

Coconut Wireless

These days, reporting grim economic news is the very definition of "fish in a barrel"; there's just no sport in it. The latest example comes courtesy of the Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association. HADA's second quarter report

Rob Report

Bold Steps

Diving into the deep end of a sink-or-swim global shift

In his number one bestseller, The World is Flat, socio-political author Thomas L. Friedman skewered the topic of globalization with the directness of the boy in the crowd exclaiming

By the Numbers

44 Hawaii's volunteerism rank among the 50 states, according to a recent report; 23.4 percent of Hawaii residents volunteered in 2008, almost

Spin Cycle

Herbicide-tolerance n. A genetically engineered trait that allows crops to be doused with large quantities of poison that would otherwise



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News of the Weird

British construction worker Martin Jones, 42, who lost one eye and was blinded in the other in a 1997 explosion, regained his sight this year as a result of surgery in which part of his tooth was implanted in

Overheard this week

“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

Maui TIME

“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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