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100 Years Ago

1919 -- To give Maui a chance to have plenty of visitors to the fair in October, the Inter-Island Steamship Navigation Company announced that a 1 1/2 round-trip fare will be charged passengers from Honolulu to Maui, or 1 1/2 times the usual one-way fare.

75 Years Ago

1944 -- Maui baseball fans will be treated to some real major league ball playing when the Army and Navy Major League All-Stars stage a two-game exhibition series at the Kahului Fairgrounds.

50 Years Ago

1969 -- Coach Soichi Sakamoto and members of his three national champion men's teams will participate when Maui's new $400,000, 50-meter Olympic-standard swimming pool at the War Memorial sports complex is dedicated.

25 Years Ago

1994 -- The strangest lost-and-found case in the recent history of Maui County elections was closed Wednesday night with the tabulation of a 520 forgotten Molokai ballots --and without rewriting the ending to this year's primary election.

10 Years Ago

2009 -- After Hawaii's charter schools already absorbed a more than 30 percent cut in funding this year, Maui County's two public charter schools may not be implementing the furlough Fridays at their campuses beginning next month.

* "Looking Back Through The Maui News" is a weekly feature compiled by Jill Engledow.

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