Join the Polanui Hiu Community Managed Makai Area team at the Lindsey Ohana Hale on Sunday, August 5th. The volunteer group is doing everything in their power to improve West Maui’s marine resources. Their objective is to improve the health of Maui’s reefs by educating, creating awareness, and establishing pono practices. Learn more about what […]
Talking affordable housing, seawalls and sustainable ag with Albert Perez, 3 years after he took over Maui Tomorrow
Three years ago this month Albert Perez took over as Executive Director of the Maui Tomorrow Foundation. He helped found the organization in 1989, stayed a few years, then moved to the mainland, where he spent much of his time until 2015. I chatted with Perez not long after he took over Maui Tomorrow, and […]
Apocalypse World Tour: The Ultimate Zombie Experience at Maui Paintball
The Apocalypse World Tour will be coming to Maui on Friday, May 11th and Saturday, May 12th at Maui Paintball in Olowalu. Zombie fanatics will start their ultimate zombie experience with a mini-escape room, where you and your team will need to survive before entering the apocalyptic nightmare. You will then navigate through an apocalyptic wasteland, armed with an infrared […]
Aboard Hokule`a, Mission Blue Coalition names Olowalu reef a ‘Hope Spot’
Mission Blue Coalition has named the Olowalu reef a “Hope Spot” to recognize and support CMMA’s (Olowalu Community Managed Makai Area) efforts to protect the nearly one thousand-acre coral reef. The August 17 announcement coincided with the Polynesian Voyaging Society‘s Mahalo Hawai’i Sail to bring Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia home as a way to thank the people, […]
Nice to see Hawaii taking up the fight against white supremacist statues
It’s heartwarming to see activists way out here in Hawaii take up the civil rights struggle being fought right now in the continental U.S. over statues that honor the so-called “heroes” of the Confederacy. Those particular statues don’t exist out here, but that doesn’t mean we don’t face the same underlying issues. The fight is […]
King Tides are just more evidence of climate change reality for Maui
The fact that the ocean is creeping up ever further on Maui and Hawaii shores is a reality anyone here can see. We see most pronounced it in the form of old trees toppled over in the sand as the surf sloshes around their roots on Maui’s north shore and along the road between Olowalu […]
Maui County Environmental Coordinator responds to recent MauiTime story on Olowalu seawall demonstrations
Editor’s note: Maui County Environmental Coordinator Rob Parsons, a longtime contributor to MauiTime, felt that our recent cover story on anti-seawall activists in Olowalu left out others who helped stop the road project. Here are his thoughts: I was glad to see MauiTime featured the story on how activists helped the DOT rethink a project for […]
Activists stopped a bad seawall project in Olowalu, but their work isn’t done yet
Protect our coastline,” “Move the road,” and “For our keiki,” are just some of the messages displayed along the Olowalu coastline by activist group Malama Olowalu. Months after the organization helped halt the construction of a seawall project planned by the Department of Transportation (DOT) that would have seriously damaged the nearby aquatic environment, the […]
Pacific Whale Foundation says they spotted first humpback of season in Maui waters
This morning, Pacific Whale Foundation President Greg Kaufman sent out a news release stating that one of his boats spotted the first humpback whale of the season yesterday, in the waters just off Lahaina. But before you do any celebrating, Kaufman said the whale didn’t seem all that well. “The brief video captured is a […]
Here’s some feedback we got on our 2016 Hawaii Primary Election Endorsement Issue
It hasn’t even been a week since we laid down the first of our 2016 minefields (otherwise known as election endorsement issues), and we’ve taken about as much incoming fire as I expected. Whenever you pick a side in a political fight, you’re going to get heat–especially when your criteria for endorsing candidates doesn’t follow strict ideological lines. […]
UPDATED: Olowalu Town developers withdraw state Land Use Commission petition
Details are still sketchy, but the developers of the proposed Olowalu Town–which will add 1,500 homes and a variety of commercial structures to tiny Olowalu–withdrew their petition with the state Land Use Commission (LUC), according to an Apr. 7, 2016 letter from LUC Executive Officer Daniel Orodenker posted on the LUC website. “We understand that Olowalu Town […]
‘Hawaii’s Wounded Knee’ – Remembering the Olowalu Massacre
Kalolopahu. It’s a Hawaiian word meaning “the spilled brains.” Until I began researching the history of Olowalu, I had never heard the word. Olowalu, a tiny coastal town just a few miles south of Lahaina (pop. 80), has been in the news a lot lately because of the grand development plans from Olowalu Town LLC […]
Maui Nui Resource Council wants you to Malama Olowalu
The Maui Nui Resource Council invites you to Malama Olowalu this Saturday, Jan. 24. Join the conversation on conservation and welcome the voyaging canoe Hikianalia. Uncle Snake Ah Hee and Archie Kalepa will lead the discussion on the creation and management of Olowalu Makai Area. Bring your beach chair, snorkel gear and sunscreen for a day of education […]
2015 MauiTime Year In Review
Well, another year’s in the books. On the whole, 2015 wasn’t any more disastrous or violent than any other recent year, I suppose (we did get a new Star Wars film out of it), though at times it certainly seemed otherwise. Murder rates have risen in many large American cities, and a series of horrific […]
Hawaii Land Use Commission rejects Olowalu Town Final Environmental Impact Statement
By a vote of six to one, the Hawaii Land Use Commission (LUC) voted late yesterday to reject the Olowalu Town project’s Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS). The vote on the decade-old proposal to add 1,500 homes and about 4,000 residents to tiny Olowalu came at the end of a marathon hearing at the Maui […]
Save Olowalu! 25 reasons why the proposed Olowalu Town is a bad idea
A few weeks ago the state Land Use Commission LUC met at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center to discuss the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for Olowalu Town, a massive development project pushed by Bill Frampton and Dave Ward. The project is billed as a “complete community”–containing its own housing, public infrastructure, recreation, commercial […]