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Upfront NewsJune 27, 2012 | 07:41 AMby Anthony PignataroWALTER RITTE
Running for: Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee, at-large seat
Running against: Keli'i Akina, Haunani Apoliona, Cal Lee, Lancelot Haili Lincoln, Keali'i J. Makekau
Birthplace: Pu'unene, Maui |
Upfront News 2June 27, 2012 | 07:43 AMby Jen RussoWhen Elaine Blasi retired as Head of School at Hale O Keiki Montessori School in June 2010, she wasn't exactly sure what she was going to do next. As founder of the Kihei Montessori School and administrator there for 10 years, she felt it was time to move on. Her background in education compelled her to continue blazing trails in Maui's world of education, and now, two years later, she's opened the Global Technology High School. |
Coconut WirelessJune 27, 2012 | 07:32 AMby Anthony PignataroLARRY THE INTERNET GUY
It's not every week that one guy buys 98 percent of an island, but then again, Larry Ellison isn't merely one guy. |
June 27, 2012 | 07:47 AMby Jen RussoWanna work for rock star Mick Fleetwood? Fleetwood is filling 120 positions for his much anticipated Fleetwood's on Front St., a 16,000 square foot epicurean restaurant and retail operation. On Monday, June 2, they will be accepting applications on site and conducting interviews from noon to 8pm at their 744 Front St., Lahaina location (the old Lahaina Store Grill and Oyster Bar). |
Upfront News 3June 27, 2012 | 07:45 AMby Jen RussoThe University of Hawaii has forged a new partnership with the Mapua Institute of Technology in the Philippines to provide its UHMC Hospitality and Tourism program students a chance to study abroad and prepare them for the demands of the hospitality industry. The hospitality industry earned $856,623,000 in Maui County in 2008 (according to the 2010 Maui County Data Book), second only to real estate. |
News of the WeirdJune 27, 2012 | 07:50 AMby Chuck ShepherdCHINA'S RED BULL
Chinese media reported that on May 4, at the Xiaogan Middle School in Hubei province, high school students studying for the all-important national college entrance exam worked through the evening while hooked up to intravenous drips of amino acids to fight fatigue. A director of the school's Office of Academic Affairs reasoned that before the IVs were hung, weary students complained of losing too much |
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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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