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WEDNESDAY, Apr. 30: And now, for something completely unexpected: Good News! In its infinite wisdom, the county has decided not to get rid of the small gravel lot situated between the Iao Theater and a Maui Police substation on Market Street in Wailuku Town. |
Rob ReportThis could be the crop of Maui's futureOutside my Haiku window is a stand of golden bamboo, catching the morning sunlight and swaying in the trade winds. From time to time I have selectively cut a few pieces of different sizes for a variety of purposes: fruit picker, coconut harvesting long-handled saw, curtain rods, garden plant stakes, and to hoist decorative flags. |
LC WatchJames T. Viela, the new Maui County Liquor Commissioner who just started his five-year term in March, has resigned. |
The Maui 10NO POWER: MECO drops to the bottom of the chart for last Thursday’s unexplained, completely unnecessary power outage in Wailuku. Seriously, you guys know this is the United States of America, right? What happened, did another bird short out the whole system? Short of a hurricane or tsunami or that one time when Dr. |
TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: A Maryland governmental fund created to assist “innocent” victims of violent crime has paid out nearly $1.8 million since 2003 to injured (or deceased) “drug dealers, violent offenders and other criminals,” according to an investigation by the Baltimore Sun published in March. |
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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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