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100 Years Ago
1919 -- Kiawe beans are abundant on Molokai this year and lie scattered all along the road and beach from Pukoo to Kaunakakai.
75 Years Ago
1944 -- A mile and a half of the new two-lane macadam-paved Paia highway is open for traffic, alleviating the worst stretches of the road to Paia.
50 Years Ago
1969 -- Planning Consultant Noboru Kobayashi gave the Kihei 701 Plan Steering Committee a rundown of the goals and an outline of the details of the plan designed to provide orderly growth along the 22-mile Kihei coastline strip.
25 Years Ago
1994 -- With an election-year motto like "Make Kids Count," Thursday night's forum organized by parents and children's advocates was up to its collective ears in a sea of self-declared "education candidates."
10 Years Ago
2009 -- At a time when everyone is singing the economic blues, Pacific Business News found 50 small businesses - including six on Maui - that had double-digit percentage increases in revenue between 2006 and 2008.
* "Looking Back Through The Maui News" is a weekly feature compiled by Jill Engledow.