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The EMI system, which was used to divert water from East Maui streams to the sugar plantation for nearly 150 years, is one of the last physical — and one of the most controversial — reminders of the sugar plantation and A&B’s outsize influence on Maui.
Wehiwa Aloy became the first Mauian to win the Golden Spikes Award, and he’s also likely to become the first from the Valley isle to be selected in the first round of the MLB draft.
Kahikinui, along with Waiohuli and Launiupoko, were the first communities on Maui to earn Firewise USA recognition in 2016 — and now there are 34 with another 16 going through the process.
Rodney Yap, Pat McCall and Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen were all at a youth football camp put on by the Los Angeles Rams 53 years ago, becoming part of a generation of Rams fans on Maui.
On Tuesday, 400 flag and tackle football players from Maui County schools took part in a clinic with the Los Angeles Rams at War Memorial Stadium as part of a four-day Mauicamp.
Changing rainfall, persistent drought and invasive species are taking a toll on the watershed and leaving East Maui farmers with less water than expected after the restoration of streams.
Jaxon Grossman, a 6-4, 220-pound right-handed pitcher, took the 2024 season off before becoming a national junior college champion at Salt Lake Community College. The 2022 King Kekaulike High School graduate is likely to be selected next month in the Major League Baseball draft.
With the average age of Hawaiʻi farm producers at 60.7 years in 2022, many groups in Maui County are offering programs to attract young people to the farming profession.
Community members say there aren’t enough Hawaiian homestead opportunities in East Maui and hope the project can ease the burden on multigenerational households living under one roof.
Gates to restrict access to the road could be installed anywhere from six months to a year or more. As they sit in limbo, houseless community members living there worry where they’ll go next.
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