Available – This Website and its Newspaper, Moon Over Haleakala is looking for new ownership. The monthly print version serves Maui’s North Shore, East Side and Upcountry. We will not be printing the April issue. Price, terms and conditions are open to arrangement with a new publisher. I can be contacted at mauimoonnews@gmail.com Aloha Moon [...]
Mar 21 2011 | Posted in
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Dear Editor; Maui Police Chief, Gary Yabuta, is opposed to the use of marijuana–because of his need for job security. He must have victims to arrest, in order to perpetuate the police state. I can understand why he wants the public to support this extortion enterprise. I can’t understand how is it legal, for our [...]

Tapping in to community memory What do we remember? The ocean side of Hana Highway through Paia is a string of warning signs telling us that there is no shoreline access. Well there was, wasn’t there? Lots of Maui long-timers remember going through several places in Paia directly over to the beach, that are now [...]

Aluminum Man By Kyle Ellison When was the last time you entered a race that was free? Actually, let’s back up a step. When was the last time you even entered a race? If the answer lies somewhere between “Never” and “It’s Been a While”, keep reading, because we may have just found the perfect [...]
Mar 1 2011 | Posted in
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By Ken Pinsky On Monday morning, February 14 the Moon Over Haleakala team of Phil Swatek, Steven Oster and myself interviewed newly elected Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa in his office. The interview was recorded on video and can be viewed at mauimoonnews.com. Arakawa is now serving his second, but non-consecutive term as Maui’s Mayor. He [...]

By Ken Pinsky Well, I’ve been living in Paia since last summer now and I’m ready to report in. Things keep changing, and I’ll get to that, but I want you to know, Paia’s great. I’ve been on Maui a little over thirty years, and almost all of that time I lived out in the [...]

By Phil Swatek My friend Richard was a courtly, dapper man with a wavy mane of grey hair and a pencil moustache not unlike those affected by 30s matinee idols. He was a denizen of downtown Honolulu long before it was fashionable and was a widely recognized character in that small world. As the unofficial [...]

The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now? * By Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association, Jan 27, 2011 Straight to the Source “The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must.” – Whole Foods Market, Jan. 21, 2011 In the wake of [...]