Special to The Maui News King Kekaulike and Baldwin high schools captured the boys and girls team titles, respectively, at the Maui Interscholastic League surf contest Saturday, the league’s first meet in over two years. The contest at D.T. Fleming Beach drew 10 schools competing in ...
There was a slight recovery in college-bound enrollment by Maui County’s 2021 graduating high school seniors compared to the previous graduating class, but efforts to continue higher education are still being hampered by the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on education. A mix of “alarming” but also some good news was revealed in data published last week in the College and Career Readiness Indicators Report by the Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education, which is a statewide partnership led by the Executive Office on Early Learning, the state Department of Education and ...
The Maui News Polynesian voyaging canoes Hokule‘a and Hikianalia are getting ready to set sail Tahiti on a “Kealaikahiki Voyage,” which will focus on navigational training and cultural protocols to prepare the crew and test the canoes before they embark on the Moananuiakea Voyage next year. Polynesian Voyaging Society announced that next generation voyaging leaders will captain and navigate the two canoes to Tahiti, including Lehua Kamalu, who will captain Hokule‘a, which will make her the first woman to captain and navigate a canoe from Hawaii to Tahiti. On Hikianalia, Pwo ...
The Maui News After a two-year pause from traveling to the Valley Isle due to the COVID-19 pandemic, representatives from the Mexican Consulate took hundreds of appointments at the Maui Economic Opportunity building in Wailuku on Saturday and Sunday. MEO Community Services Director Cassi ...
As masks come off indoors today and domestic travelers are freely able to come to Hawaii, some pandemic directives will still linger at state airports, public schools and other venues that choose to keep the masking rules. At 11:59 p.m. Friday, the state’s indoor mask requirement expired, ...
Mayor Michael Victorino has proposed a “record-setting” Maui County budget of more than $1 billion for next fiscal year, citing good fiscal management by the county and additional revenues as the economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. “Today, I proposed a record-setting budget ...
