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Cause behind blaze near airport investigated
Flames consume sugar cane Sunday afternoon near the Kahului Airport heliport. Helicopter operations were not disrupted by the fire, although a heliport access road was closed temporarily.
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May 12, 2008
KAHULUI — About 25 acres of sugar cane burned Sunday afternoon near Kahului Airport, but it was not part of a planned harvest.
More than a dozen Maui County firefighters as well as airport firefighting personnel responded to the blaze reported at 12:54 p.m. It was under control at 2:10 p.m., according to county spokeswoman Mahina Martin.
Although the fire was near the heliport, it did not endanger any buildings, and no injuries were reported, she said.
Tour helicopter operations were not disrupted, but the road providing vehicle access to the heliport was c
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MMMC hires 1st cardiac surgeon
May 12, 2008
WAILUKU — The pieces are coming together for Maui Memorial Medical Center’s planned Heart, Brain and Vascular Tower.
Already, a $150 million revenue bond has been authorized by the state Legislature for the facility, and last week the hos
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‘Critical mass’ for Carden Academy
May 12, 2008
PUKALANI — Carden Academy of Maui is about to embark on a multimillion-dollar campaign to build a new campus Upcountry.
“We just got to that critical mass where we started thinking wouldn’t it be nice to have our own purpose-built campus,
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Call goes out for conservation as water demand increases
May 12, 2008
WAILUKU — Demand for drinking water inched upward last week as officials with the county Department of Water Supply continued to struggle with abnormally dry conditions.
Overall average daily water use went from 39.34 million gallons in t
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With the shutdown of Aloha Airlines and the fact that the Hawaii Superferry is adding more runs between Maui and Oahu, are you more likely to use the Superferry?
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That super feeling
Thu, May 8, 2008 @ 5:27PM
It’s Robert Downey Jr. who puts on the suit, but it’s Gwyneth Paltrow who makes “Iron Man” fly. As Pepper Potts, she is so dewy, so big-screen gorgeous, so smart, so clever … and yet vulnerable, she makes Downey’s job that much easier. All he really has to do, like everyone watching this surprisingly enjoyable first Really Big Hit of the Summer, is fall in love with her. Not that Downey isn’t up to the other challenges of his role, like saving the world and such. The superhero in “Iron Man,” apparently originally inspired by Howard Hughes, is a brilliant inventor-entrepreneur in a jet-propelled suit of armor. In the hands of a less gifted actor, it would just be a case of clothes make the man. But Downey makes him fascinating … and a whole lot of fun. While not an obvious first choice to play the latest action hero in the Marvel Comics cosmos, the actor’s well-publicized personal battles with his
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Two from Maui to get big exposure
Mon, May 12, 2008 @ 6:08PM
Baldwin’s Mana Rosa, previously mentioned a few roblog entries back, and Kamehameha Maui’s Jordan Puu-Robinson will get to meet with and get some significant exposure from recruiting guru Tom Lemming when he visits the islands for the first time since 1999 next week. Rosa (6-3, 250, DE/DT) and Puu-Robinson (6-3 1/2, 235, TE/DE/QB) are among 17 players on the list. Lemming is one of the top recruiting guys in the nation and he works for CBS, CSTV, ESPN and has complete control of the players selected for the U.S. Army All-American Football Game that is shown annually on NBC. Click the link to see the entire list and check back here or in The Maui News print edition for more info.
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All the cute animals are dying!
Sun, May 11, 2008 @ 11:00AM
Here's another global warming crisis: starving koalas. Well, they're not actually starving. But they might starve if their food fills up with anti-nutrients, whatever those are. Does it strike you that global warming is highly selective? It's always the cute animals that are in danger, the polar bear, the koala, the Edith's checkerspot butterfly that are going to go extinct. Never the mosquito, sandfly, hagfish or aluminum siding salesman.
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"Maui Reviled"
Thu, May 8, 2008 @ 2:27AM
I had to happen eventually, I figure. I was at a recent public meeting when someone got up to testify and brought with him a little blue book. Just the sight of it immediately drew murmurs and then quite audible guffaws before this nice man, who has community ties and appears to have lived here for some time, began to actually quote from it -- in what was meant to be a good way. The gentleman was making an argument to keep Honoapiilani Highway close to the highway when it’s realigned mauka to avoid ocean erosion. The little blue book he held with highlighted passages, he said, praised the views of the ocean from the highway, calling such proximity to the water a rarity while driving in Hawaii. But it’s hard to imagine that most people in the room were really listening to him since they were pretty busy talking to each other about either his audacity or ignorance. The book was “Maui Revealed” or “Maui Reviled” as
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Goin' somewhere
Thu, May 8, 2008 @ 5:09PM
Mike Molina saw my story coming a mile away. "So, working on your annual travel story?" he asked when he picked up the line. Yup. Each year we get a copy of the mayor's and council members' travel records and do a roundup of where everyone went and what they spent. There's never been anything jaw-dropping in there -- no $10,000 "research" cruises, no outrageous hotel bills -- just the usual assortment of trips to lobby the Legislature and a smattering of Mainland conferences. So why do we keep doing it? Just to keep tabs, I guess. With nothing else to go on, it's those conferences people usually end up talking about. Some question whether they're an unnecessary waste of time and money, while others say they're a valuable way to keep in touch with how the wider world is addressing common problems of water, development and infrastructure. So I suppose that's the purpose of doing the story every year -- if people care enough to have an opinion ab
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