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100 Years Ago
1919 -- Quietly, yet nevertheless determinedly, a band of nearly 150 women, representatives of the best womanhood of Maui, gathered last Saturday afternoon at the Kahului community house and formed a suffrage organization which will be known as the Maui Women's Suffrage Association.
75 Years Ago
1944 -- Conversion of the Kaeleku Sugar Company plantation at Hana into a vacation "dude ranch" was inaugurated this week when Paul I. Fagan, San Francisco and Honolulu capitalist, purchased the property.
50 Years Ago
1969 -- Jockey Adam Jardine rode three straight winners in his duels with Albert Mendes, but the latter got some consolation with the victory in the added quarter-mile final of the 12-event program which opened the Maui Saddle Club's 1969 horse racing season at the Fairgrounds.
25 Years Ago
1994 -- M. and Mme. Bertrand de Laperouse, the senior representatives of the family of the 18th century French explorer, were unable to come from Paris for the dedication of the Laperouse Memorial, so their eldest son Philippe de Laperouse and his wife Elizabeth substituted for them, coming all the way from their home -- in St. Louis, Missouri.
10 Years Ago
2009 -- While Maui County's leaders said they understood the need for Gov. Linda Lingle to take action because of failing state revenue projections, they questioned her decision to order three-days-per-month furloughs for state workers and reductions of free health insurance benefits for low-income adults.
* "Looking Back Through The Maui News" is a weekly feature compiled by Jill Engledow.