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Upfront NewsSeptember 19, 2012 | 09:52 AMby Anthony PignataroRunning for: Hawaii State Senate, District 6 (South and West Maui)
Running against: Bart Mulvihill
Birthplace: El Campo, Texas
Profession: Incumbent
Electoral Win/Loss Record: 7/1 |
Coconut WirelessSeptember 19, 2012 | 09:59 AMby Anthony PignataroCOUNTY CANCELS FUTURE PAIA TOWN PARTIES
On Friday, Sept. 14 (officials usually announce bad news on Fridays), County of Maui Office of Economic Development Coordinator Teena Rasmussen declared that there would be no more Fourth Friday Town Parties in Paia. Her reasons are neatly summarized in the following paragraphs, which come from an email she sent to |
Upfront News 2September 19, 2012 | 09:54 AMby Jen RussoLauralee Blanchard of the Maui's own Leilani Farm Sanctuary will be joining Sea Shepherd's Captain Paul Watson as part of VegansAreCool.com's Vegan of the Year Awards. While Watson puts his hide on the line to save the whales, Blanchard helped save a different kind of creature coming across the Pacific: the pig. A former consultant to the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), she helped document the cruel treatment hogs receive when traversing the Pacific for slaughter and consumption. |
Upfront News 3September 19, 2012 | 09:57 AMby Jen RussoWailea Beach, which fronts the Grand Wailea, will be the site of Maui's first Maui Beach Yoga Day in honor of National Yoga Month. Next Sunday, Sept. 30, join Grand Wailea trainer and lululemon ambassador Nancy Lawrence for a free beach yoga event. |
News of the WeirdSeptember 19, 2012 | 10:36 AMby Chuck ShepherdRESEARCHERS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN
Scientists from the Primate Research Institute at Japan's Kyoto University reported in an August journal article that they had given helium gas to apes (gibbons), which, predictably, made their voices goofily high-pitched. But it was not a fraternity prank or lab assistant's initiation–it was a way for the scientists to determine whether the famously sonorous gibbons could yell just as loudly at a higher-than-natural pitch. |
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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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