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Editorial

Remember the meaning of Memorial Day

This weekend, as you enjoy time with family and friends, take a moment to think about Maui soldiers and the true meaning of Memorial Day. While many people on Monday’s holiday celebrate the end of the school year and the start of summer coming in June, the late U.S. Sen. Daniel ...

Help protect native animals

The state last week reminded residents that native species existed before humans in Hawaii, and most are found nowhere else in the world. Many are threatened or endangered due to predation, disease and habitat loss. That’s the theme of a new full-color flyer created by the state ...

Maui homeowners can benefit from free wildfire hazard assessments

According to the Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization (HWMO), in Lahaina and around the state, there are hundreds of homes in what is known as the urban/wildfire interface. This means they are particularly at risk to wildfires. Last year, wildland fires burned more than ...

Community loses Sallie Zaugg

The wave of young adults that came to Maui in the 1970s to staff the blossoming visitor industry of the time was a vibrant and energetic group that would come to define the colorful personality of the West Side. Marilyn Sallie Zaugg was one of them. Born in the Canal Zone, Panama, ...

Program teaches valuable lessons

As Walter Chihara explained in a recent commentary, students who complete the Junior Lifeguard Program receive training that can help them save lives. The county Department of Fire & Public Safety Ocean Safety Bureau is now gearing up for the 2023 Junior Lifeguard Program that ...

Lifeguards coming to Kaanapali Beach

After years of anxiety and false starts, the official word has come in that a lifeguard tower near Black Rock on Kaanapali Beach will be in place in December or January. There are currently two lifeguard training sessions in progress for the stations with eight recruits in each class. ...

Community loses Bennenido Arcangel

A patriarch of the grassroots spirit of the Lahaina community has passed on to eternal life in God’s Kingdom above. Bennenido Arcangel left this world at age 91 after lifelong dedication to family, community and country. Born Aug. 12, 1931, at Pu’ukoli’I in Lahaina, ...

Lahaina Civic Center is in sad shape

It was announced recently that the long-awaited renovations at the Lahaina Civic Center have once again been postponed. As would be expected, the news comes as a deflating disappointment to the West Side community. Even before the COVID chaos shut down the LCC, the facility had ...

State should fund critical cancer research

It’s sad to learn that cancer is the leading cause of death among Asian Americans and the second leading cause of death among Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander individuals here in Hawaii. Cancer is also the second leading cause of death in our state. An estimated ...

Fix West Maui’s glaring problems

Letter writers Michele Lincoln and Buff Weaver are right — the derelict car dumping grounds in the woods and near the ocean along Honoapiilani Highway at Launiupoko and Olowalu are eyesores that require immediate action. Driving into West Maui on the Lahaina Bypass, or from the old ...