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Upfront NewsFebruary 29, 2012 | 11:25 AMby Anthony PignataroAh, legal notices: those wordy blocks of text sent out by local government agencies and courts that fill a daily newspaper's classifieds section and provide the best natural substitute to Lunesta yet found. There were 10 such notices in the Feb. 23 issue of The Maui News. They ran in the back of the paper, at the bottom of pages B9 and B10 of the classifieds section. They included a court summons, a request for quotes from contractors for work to be done on the solar telescope atop Haleakala, a notice (with a map!) from the county alerting residents to speed hump construction, three announcements of upcoming foreclosure sales and four notices of the completions of local construction contracts.
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Coconut WirelessFebruary 29, 2012 | 11:28 AMby Anthony PignataroSPEECH! SPEECH!
Maui County Mayor Alan Arakawa gave his annual State of the County address on Friday, Feb. 24. It was a good speech in which he talked about how his administration helped make the county more efficient but still needs state and federal money to build things like a proper film studio and bus shelters. But near the end came this exceptional plea: |
Upfront News 2February 29, 2012 | 11:21 AMby Jen RussoThe future of lighting is in light emitting diodes (LEDs) but the world has been slow to adapt. LEDs have been a usable technology for around 40 years, according to Al Ulman of Pacific Green Lighting Systems, but they are just now limping into home use and barely breaking into the commercial market. |
Upfront News 3February 29, 2012 | 11:23 AMby Jen RussoEvery year in Hawaii, more than 6,000 people are diagnosed with cancer and more than 2,000 will die from the disease. The volunteer-based American Cancer Society (ACS), established a century ago in New York (the Hawaii chapter opened in 1959), seeks to prevent cancer, save lives, diminish suffering and help people fight back against the disease. And now the ACS has a new board chairperson: Democratic state Senator Rosalyn Baker.
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News of the WeirdFebruary 29, 2012 | 11:32 AMby Chuck ShepherdRAPPING WITH JESUS!
Part-time Devon, England, vicar Gavin Tyte, who serves churches in Uplyme and Axmouth, recently produced a rap video of the Nativity, in which he plays a shepherd, an angel and the narrator. Sample lyrics (about Mary placing her baby in a cattle trough and angels calming the frightened shepherds): "No hotel, motel, custom baby-changer / She wrapped the baby up and laid him in a manger" and "Chill out, my friends, there's no need for trepidation / Got a message for the world, and it's elation information."
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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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