Low-maintenance succulents make watering a breeze

February 29, 2020

Looking for an easy plant to care for? Try a succulent. Any plant with fleshy stems or leaves is called a succulent. Aside from cacti, only a few other plant families have succulent members. All these succulents, cactus or not, are low-maintenance. One family of noncactus succulents is Crassulaceae, which counts among its members the familiar jade plant, which has thick stems and shiny green, fleshy, spoon-shaped leaves. After years of selective stem cutting, my jade plant has developed two thick trunks that give it the appearance of a venerable tree in miniature. Kalanchoe is ...

Publishers Weekly Best-sellers

February 29, 2020

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “American Dirt” by Jeanine Cummins (Flatiron Books) 2. “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’’ by Charlie Mackesy (Harperone) 3. “Golden in Death” by J.D. Robb (St. Martin’s Press) 4. “One Minute Out” by Mark Greaney (Berkley) 5. “Lost” by Patterson/Born (Little. Brown) 6. “The Dutch House’’ by Ann Patchett (Harper) 7. “The Guardians’’ by John Grisham (Doubleday) 8. “Crooked River” by Preston/Child (Grand Central Publishing) 9. “Such a Fun Age” by Kiley Reid (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 10. “A Long ...

Looking Back Through The Maui News

February 29, 2020

100 Years Ago 1920 — D. H. Case received by the Lurline this morning from the University of Oregon 15 white leghorn hens and two cocks of exceptionally high pedigree. The Oregon University is claimed to have produced the heaviest-laying strain of leghorns in the United States. 75 Years Ago 1945 — Maui Boy Scouts this week joined the campaign to save the lives of American servicemen making beachheads in the Pacific. The scouts will collect photographs and maps and all other material pertaining to the Japanese-controlled areas. 50 Years Ago 1970 — A total of 19 coconut trees, ...

Thrift Stores

February 29, 2020

The following is a listing of nonprofit organizations that sell an assortment of used and donated goods. For changes or new listings, call 242-6335. • Goodwill Retail Thrift Store, 250 Alamaha St., Ste. N-9, Kahului, 442-8989, Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Clothing, household goods, electronics, collectibles, toys and more. • Habitat for Humanity, Maui’s ReStore, 1162 Lower Main St., Wailuku, 242-1140, Monday to Saturday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Furniture, new and used building materials. • Kala Iki Thrift Store, Kula Hospital, 204 Kula Highway, Kula, ...

Tech in the Color Purple

February 22, 2020

Could Hawaii be the next Silicon Valley? It’s not a stretch of the imagination when you see the promising technology startups that have emerged from the Purple Prize, a Honolulu-based indigenous innovation incubator and competition. Among them are 3R Water, the developer of a data ...

UH-MC has commitment to sustainable campus, community

February 22, 2020

In 2018, UH President Lassner signed an executive policy with a clear, far-reaching, systemwide directive — to learn from the “rich foundation of indigenous Hawaiian cultural values and knowledge . . . to develop a uniquely strong response to climate change and sustainability challenges.” (You can read it here — www.hawaii.edu/policy/?action=viewPolicy&policySection=ep&policyChapter=4&policyNumber=202) We’re pleased with our accomplishments — our Net Zero electricity project, eliminating plastic bottles from our campus, setting up water refill stations in many buildings, ...