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Upfront NewsJuly 03, 2012 | 07:29 AMby Megan HazenFor the past two decades, Hana Arts has been providing arts and cultural programs to the remote, rural Hana and East Maui community. Due to a decision in a recent County Council budget meeting, they're going to be $30,000 short next year. |
Upfront News 2July 03, 2012 | 09:34 AMby Jen RussoThe development of a new man-made plastic called Parkesine won the bronze medal in The Great London Exposition in 1862. Since then, scientists have created more plastics at an ever-increasing pace. It's no wonder that more than a hundred types of plastics are littering our oceans and gathering into great garbage patches and swirls. Giant gyres of garbage floating beneath the surface, undetectable by satellite images, are quietly choking fish while altering the the ocean's ecology. |
Coconut WirelessJuly 03, 2012 | 07:25 AMby Anthony PignataroNAVY GETS NO RESPECT
Man, it's tough to be the U.S. Navy these days. They haven't won (much less fought in) anything remotely resembling a classic ship-on-ship engagement in nearly 70 years, which I just had the temerity to point out. They're also catching hell from environmentalists over the number of marine mammals they say their training exercises over the next five years will injure or kill in Hawaii waters (see our June 28, 2012 cover story "Good Stewards of the Environment"). But even at a time when the service is trying to behave in an environmentally responsible manner, they get knocked upside the head. |
July 03, 2012 | 07:35 AMby Anthony PignataroTULSI GABBARD
Running for: U.S. Congress (Hawaii's 2nd District), Democratic nomination
Running against: Rafael Del Castillo, Mufi Hannemann, Esther Kia'aina, Bob Marx, Miles Shiratori
Birthplace: Leloaloa, American Samoa |
July 03, 2012 | 07:33 AMby Jen RussoIf you've ever done the late night run to the Kanemitsu Bakery for hot, fresh bread you might be devastated by the Department of Health's recent shutting down of the establishment. Back in March, the bakery was hit with a $90,000 penalty for unsanitary conditions, which owner George Kanemitsu had been appealing. But a June 20 inspection revealed serious problems. |
Upfront News 3July 03, 2012 | 07:31 AMby Jen RussoThe only adult-monitored skate park on Maui just got an infusion of cash from the Frost Family Fund. That means Street Course! The Paia Youth and Cultural Center (PYCC) has created a street course and spectator viewing area with the $15,000 donation, acquired through the Hawaii Community Foundation. |
News of the WeirdJuly 03, 2012 | 07:45 AMby Chuck ShepherdMORE TENNESSEE SUPER-BREEDERS
Update: Last week's News of the Weird gave serial impregnator Desmond Hatchett, of Knoxville, Tenn., too much credit. It's true that he has fathered at least 24 kids by at least 11 different women (and has no hope of meeting child-support obligations), but he is hardly Tennessee's most prolific. A June summary by the |
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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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