Maui County plans to open an interim safe parking site on county property in Puunene in about six weeks, officials announced Wednesday. The temporary site will be established on a county-owned parcel off Pulehu Road while work continues to find a permanent location. County officials said ...
Construction has begun on Kehalani Apartments, a 35-unit affordable rental housing project in Wailuku. Developer Dowling Company, Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen and other project partners marked the start of construction with a groundbreaking ceremony Monday. “When a local family ...
Entrepreneur John G. Varel remembers growing up in a family of six children with his great-uncle and grandfather on a 120-acre farm in a small Illinois town 35 miles from St. Louis. At the farm, they grew corn, soybeans and wheat to pay the rent and to feed the cows, chickens and pigs they ...
One of Hawaii’s most gifted actors and playwrights, Moses Goods will bring the extraordinary life of one of the islands’ most beloved figures to the stage in his acclaimed one-man show “Duke,” opening Saturday at ProArts Playhouse. Goods portrays Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, Hawaii’s ...
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Long before the aloha shirt became a ubiquitous symbol of Hawaii, Chicago-born, self-taught painter and textile designer John Keoni Meigs created hundreds of unique, island-themed shirt designs beginning in the late 1930s. Some of his innovative work is on display in the “Keoni of ...
