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Upfront NewsApril 04, 2012 | 12:00 PMby Jen RussoTalia Gangini will combine two of her great passions, art and ocean sports, in an event this weekend called Craft for a Cause. Gangini will paddle from Maui to Lanai in a one-person outrigger canoe on Saturday, then from Maui to Molokai on a stand-up paddle board the following Saturday. |
Coconut WirelessApril 04, 2012 | 12:04 PMby Anthony PignataroCOUNTY OF MAUI EVEN MORE SUNSHINEY!
So really, how open is the government that runs the County of Maui? We throw around terms like "open government" all the time, but what does it mean for the actual citizens who pay for government with their taxes? |
Upfront News 2April 04, 2012 | 12:02 PMby Jen RussoTime is up early for the Maui Humane Society's Spay Neuter Incentive Program (SNIP), which provides coupons for reduced-rate sterilization for pets. The program is administered at no cost to taxpayers by the Maui Humane Society (MHS) with the funds it receives from the county. This year it met an early demise because funds were depleted as of March 5, earlier than usual. |
News of the WeirdApril 04, 2012 | 12:07 PMby Chuck ShepherdPEOPLE OF FAITH: GPS NAVIGATOR USERS
In a world of advancing technology and declining map-reading skills, some GPS navigator users blindly over-rely on the devices, and News of the Weird has reported enough of their predicaments to mark the category "no longer weird." However, three Japanese students on holiday near Brisbane, Australia, in March created a new standard for ignoring common sense. Bound for North Stradbroke Island (about eight miles offshore), the driver (according to authorities cited by the local Bayside Bulletin) |
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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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