Tough talk on utilities intensifies for Molokai (The Maui News) bi2010900 WAILUKU - The rhetoric among Maui County, Molokai Properties Ltd. and the state Public Utilities Commission last week rose to the level of probable litigation - and moving on to scorn. At issue who going to take over the utilities that serve 1,200 Molokai west side households and businesses, including Molokai Properties' own, fresh water and sewers. The county, state and..

COUNTY / IN BRIEF (The Maui News) bi2010900 Laid-off on Molokai to get federal help WASHINGTON - An emergency federal grant of $389,425 has been released to assist workers laid off by Molokai Ranch. In announcing the money from the U.S. Department of Labor, Sen. Daniel Inouye said, "The federal funds allow the state to offer displaced workers skills assessment, individual career coun..

Nightcrawlers: Honolulu Club Scene Happenings (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) bi2010900 Left Alone and Black Square, 6 p.m. $10. All ages. Left Alone and Black Square, 9:30 p.m. $10. Tuesday: "Open Turntable Tuesdays," 9 p.m. $2. * Wednesday: DJ B-Rock, 9 p.m. No cover

Panel trims TVR options (The Maui News) bi2010900 WAILUKU - To surface appearances, Tuesday's meeting of the County Council Planning Committee was about refining the bed-and-breakfast ordinance. To advocates of TVR reform, was more like the tolling on the final days of best hope. "We are disappointed that the council didn't see fit to expand the B&B ordinance to provide a large-scale solution to the TVR issue," said Thomas Cr..

Nightcrawlers: Honolulu club scene happenings (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) bi2010900 "Friday the 13th Rock Show," 8 p.m. No cover. Friends of Adam, 9 p.m. $5. Tuesday: "Open Turntable Tuesdays," 9 p.m. $2. * Wednesday: DJ B-Rock, 9 p.m. No cover

Vacation rental room count up 1.6% county (The Maui News) bi2010900 Maui County had 19,879 vacation rental rooms 2007, an increase of 1.6 percent. The Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism, publishes an annual count, said most of the increase came from new time shares at North Beach, or Kekaa, on the north end of the Kaanapali Beach Resort

Newswatch, Police/Fire (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) bi2010900 Michigan State University professor Maenette Kape'ahiokalani Padeken Ah Nee-Benham return to her alma mater to head the new Hawai'inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge

Discounts Help Travelers Get To Hawaii (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) bi2010900 Special packages offer significant savings Hawaii summer and beyond

Salesman's death Miami felt Hawaii (Miami Herald) bi2010900 In the coming weeks, Robert Spruiell's family spread ashes on a nine-acre piece of earth where he hoped to retire. The land sits atop a hill, back to the Kamalo mountains, the rest a stunning view of four Hawaiian islands

COUNTY / IN BRIEF (The Maui News) bi2010900 Laid-off on Molokai to get federal help WASHINGTON - An emergency federal grant of $389,425 has been released to assist workers laid off by Molokai Ranch. In announcing the money from the U.S. Department of Labor, Sen. Daniel Inouye said, "The federal funds allow the state to offer displaced workers skills assessment, individual career coun..

Nightcrawlers: Honolulu Club Scene Happenings (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) bi2010900 Left Alone and Black Square, 6 p.m. $10. All ages. Left Alone and Black Square, 9:30 p.m. $10. Tuesday: "Open Turntable Tuesdays," 9 p.m. $2. * Wednesday: DJ B-Rock, 9 p.m. No cover

Panel trims TVR options (The Maui News) bi2010900 WAILUKU - To surface appearances, Tuesday's meeting of the County Council Planning Committee was about refining the bed-and-breakfast ordinance. To advocates of TVR reform, was more like the tolling on the final days of best hope. "We are disappointed that the council didn't see fit to expand the B&B ordinance to provide a large-scale solution to the TVR issue," said Thomas Cr..

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