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Sabers boys, girls on target early in MIL air riflery season

The Maui High boys and girls air riflery teams swept the team titles for the second consecutive meet Sept. 5 at the Izumi “Shine” Matsui Athletic Center. The Maui High girls finished with 1,021 points, improving by five points from their victory in a meet Aug. 28-29. The Sabers boys also ...

Ranching improves with fewer axis deer

Haleakala Ranch president Scott Meidell has noticed that new fencing and the culling of wild axis deer have contributed to a steady gain in the ranch’s breeding herds the last two years. “Part of the increase is due to fewer deer,” said Meidell, whose ranch has 23,000 acres of grazing ...

Lowell leaves mark on Maui

Hurricane Lowell brought its strongest effects to Hawaii’s western islands Monday night into Tuesday, generating waves reported at 15 to 30 feet that damaged roads and coastal homes and left tens of thousands without power on Kauai. More than 250 miles from Kauai, Lowell’s waves also had ...

Community invited to Sept. 17 meeting on proposed Paia gym

Community members are encouraged to attend a meeting from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 17 at the Paia Community Center to share ideas for a proposed project to construct a new gym, the Maui County Parks and Recreation Department announced. A project website will collect public feedback from Sept. 18 ...

Maui’s Phil and Angela Benoit on their love of jazz

Performing a mix of jazz standards, Brazilian bossa nova, Hawaiian swing and original music, the husband-and-wife duo of Phil and Angela Benoit have lately been putting a unique spin on some pop classics. “We write songs together and we’ve been doing arrangements of pop tunes,” Phil ...