Hikers will follow old pathway to summit

Hikers may be taking the old trail to the summit of Haleakala for the first time in seven decades later this year following an agreement approved by the state Board of Land and Natural Resources on Friday in Honolulu.
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Lei Low

A combination of bad weather and bad timing along with the annual high demand for flowers during graduation season has left florists and lei-makers in a lurch and hunting for bloom.
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County / In Brief

Visitor seriously hurt in moped crash HONOKOHAU VALLEY - A 60-year-old California woman was flown to Maui Memorial Medical Center on Tuesday after her moped went over a guardrail at Honokohau Valley, said Ryan Joslin, spokesman for the Maui Count...
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Lovely hula hands

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Festivities for children’s sake

First Photo: Reece Murata (left) and Stacie Cuadro of Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko Hawaii entertain the crowd with an Okinawan dancing and drumming performance at Saturday's Maui Matsuri Japanese festival held at the University of Hawaii Maui College.
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New charges for Kula man for numerous cash deposits

A Kula man arrested earlier this year for allegedly impersonating a federal agent is facing additional charges related to more than $314,000 in cash deposits in bank accounts over a three-year period. In a superseding indictment filed Thursday in U.
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Officer, Obama talk basketball at police honor

A former Kula resident enjoyed some basketball trash talk with President Barack Obama on Saturday at the White House. Baldwin High School alumnus and Los Angeles Police Department Detective Craig Marquez, who was being honored in Washington, D.C.
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Judge Heely pledges to take job ‘very seriously’

WAILUKU - Adrianne Heely was praised for her legal skills as well as for her volunteer work in the community, as she was sworn in Monday afternoon as a 2nd Circuit District Family Court judge.
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Kihei 19-year-old sought as suspect in a stabbing

KIHEI - Police are looking for a 19-year-old Kihei man suspected of stabbing another man early Monday in the parking lot of a Kihei apartment complex. The suspect was identified as Sydney Elaban-Paoa, said Lt.
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Judge tells robbery defendant, 18, to ‘grow up’

WAILUKU - A Baldwin High School student was released from jail last week after being incarcerated for nearly three months for his part in a robbery attempt this yea.
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