This Saturday, April 9, the Maui Friends of the Library (MFOL) invites bookworms, teachers and adventure-seekers to their used book sale at the MFOL Warehouse. From fiction to nonfiction to children’s books and everything in between, the inventory is vast. Take advantage of their deal: 10 books/CDs for just $1, and all keiki will receive one free children’s book. Maui County … [Read more...] about Maui Friends of the Library Used Books Sale
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As the sun sets on Maui sugar, we ask what the closing of A&B’s plantation means for us
Like most reporters in Hawaii, in the hour or so after Alexander & Baldwin’s Jan. 6 announcement that they would shut down their Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar (HC&S) mill in Pu‘unene by the end of this year, I watched with growing fascination as my email inbox quickly filled with statements from public officials wanting to weigh in. Reading through them, I kept seeing … [Read more...] about As the sun sets on Maui sugar, we ask what the closing of A&B’s plantation means for us
Alexander and Baldwin ending Maui sugar production this year
And now for some of the most extraordinary news I've seen in the last decade: Today Alexander & Baldwin (A&B) announced that it's getting out of the sugar business at the end of this year. With the end of the 2016 harvest, the company will close the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar (HC&S) mill and move towards what the company's calling a "diversified agricultural … [Read more...] about Alexander and Baldwin ending Maui sugar production this year
Watch author Julie Checkoway discuss Maui’s sugar ditch kids and her book ‘The Three-Year Swim Club’
For those of you who can’t get enough of the new book The Three-Year Swim Club–the story of Coach Soichi Sakamoto and his ditch kids who went from Pu‘unene poverty in the 1930s to international swimming glory, which we discussed in our Nov. 5, 2015 cover story “Maui’s Swimming Legends”–you can watch author Julie Checkoway speak about the book in a 50-minute video on … [Read more...] about Watch author Julie Checkoway discuss Maui’s sugar ditch kids and her book ‘The Three-Year Swim Club’
Maui Friends of the Library Pu`unene Warehouse Book Sale
Maui Friends of the Library (MFOL) invites bookworms to its used book sale at their Pu`unene Warehouse this Saturday, Dec. 19. Snag deals and stroll the fiction, non-fiction, oversized and children's books selections. Children are welcome to take home a free children's book, while Maui County teachers are invited to pick out books for their classroom–also free of cost. … [Read more...] about Maui Friends of the Library Pu`unene Warehouse Book Sale