The rear end of a green sea turtle, or honu, breaks the surface while it feeds along the shoreline at Wahikuli Wayside Park across from the Lahaina Post Office one recent morning. The largest populations of green sea turtles in the United States are in the waters off Hawaii and Florida.
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Developer Peter Martin (right) reviews a map of his latest proposed projects in West Maui alongside Hope Builders project manager Kyle Ginoza during an interview last week. The Maui News / COLLEEN UECHI photos
Peter Martin went from teaching math and physics at Baldwin and Maui High schools to becoming one of the most high-profile and controversial developers on Maui.
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Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa speaks to reporters during the Southeastern Conference media days on Wednesday. Tagovailoa, a graduate of Saint Louis School in Honolulu, and the Crimson Tide lost to Clemson in last year’s national championship game. AP photos
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Officers from the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources arrest protesters, many of them elderly, who were blocking a road to prevent construction of a giant telescope on Mauna Kea on Wednesday. Police were taking away about 30 elders, who were prepared to be arrested. Protest leader Kealoha Pisciotta said hundreds of protesters moved aside to allow the elders to be taken away. Honolulu Star-Advertiser photo via AP
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Maui resident Carmen Hulu Lindsey, who is also the Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustee for Maui, prepares to be hauled away from the base of Mauna Kea on Hawaii island on Wednesday. Lindsey and other kupuna were arrested, apparently peacefully, during the protest of the Thirty Meter Telescope atop the mountain some Native Hawaiians consider sacred. Photo courtesy of Napua Greig