The Maui News

The Two Boys Who Climbed Iao Needle Back in the 1930s

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:43:32 EDT

I have heard about this fascinating story back in the 1980s, in a newspaper ad for a local bank, I think, about two Nikkei boys climbing to the top of Iao Needle on a dare, but I cannot find anything on the Web.

Lunch at Costco's and a Kind Stranger

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:05:02 EDT

Until a few weeks ago I hadn't realized why so many people crowd into Costco's outside fast-food take-out place it's chea.

Pocatello and Kumamoto

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:11:13 EDT

As Maui's population doubled in the last 15 years, there are many residents today who have no family members on Maui or anywhere in Hawai'i, and no parent or grandparents resting forever in the Maui ground or as ashes in urns in temples or...

Watertown and Candlepin Bowling

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:21:01 EDT

A major event natural and/or man-made thrusts a city, a town, a place into the global media. It could be an earthquake or a flood or as in this week's news, an act of terrorism.

James Taylor, Baby-Boomers, and Under the Stars at the MACC

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:09:24 EDT

In March this year singer-songwriter and guitarist (and he is an excellent guitarist) James Taylor turned 65 years old, born three years after the end of World War II.