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New Greenwaste Recycling Facility Opens Sept, 2025

  9/2/25 #kihei As the long term greenwaste recycling facility mauka of the Pi'ilani Hwy in Kihei recently closed, there was no nearby facility to perform this needed service...BUT NOW THERE IS!  On the edge on our South Maui District, at the intersection of the Honoapi'ilani and Kuihelani State Highways, Hawaii Organics Compost is now open for business.     So let's recycle these listed materials at this new locally owned business, and keep it out of the County...

General Membership Meeting on Sept 16 (yup. third Tues of the odd month) explores a variety of topics

August 30, 2025 #kihei  Since 1960, we have had our general membership meetings on the third Tuesday of every other month. Meeting locations have varied over those decades, but we are loving our present one, the Pro Arts Playhouse in Azeka Makai. Meeting commences at 6:30 PM. First we remind everyone that KCA does NOT restrict participation in our meetings to our members. In addition, while we ask attendees to bring non-perishable, nutritious food donations for our Food Bank, that is not...

Second event in the musical series at Kalama Park this evening 8/22/25

8/22/25 #kihei As these Friday evening presentations have been scheduled over  month ago, we respectively note that this same  evening in Wailuku is the candlelight service for Maui Officer O which was tragically shot and killed in the line of duty https://mauinow.com/2025/08/21/candlelight-vigil-set-for-fallen-maui-officer-suzanne-o-aug-22-at-wailuku-police-station/ https://gokihei.org/government/sunset-tunes-at-kalama-beach-park-in-kihei mm  

Transportation infrastructure in Kihei; We cannot seem to keep So Kihei Rd {SKR} open and can’t get Pi’ikea Rd opened.

  8-18-25 #kihei So we start the work week with Pi'ikea Rd still totally closed, and while SKR is open, construction limits a stretch to single lane alternate flow and as this continuous daily action for an indefinite period. Tomorrow the North end will be totally closed all day.   Meanwhile SKR continues with the daily (M-F} alternate single lane traffic flow in the area of Kulanihako'i Road                 mmmmmm...
State DOT working along Maui County Street

State DOT working along Maui County Street

So what were the State Department of Transportation (HDOT) workers doing along Kailoa Place in North Kihei today (10/14/14)? Well, since the strip of land on the mauka side of the street is part of the State's Pi'ilani Highway Right of Way, it is their kuleana to...

Who is doing what at Kulanihakoi Gulch?

Who is doing what at Kulanihakoi Gulch?

You know the Kulanihakoi Gulch, or at least then very end of it where it runs below the Pi'ilani Hwy between Kaonoulu and Kulanihakoi Streets across the N-S Collector Rd corridor continuing makai to SKR and the Kai. Well this morning, (1016/14) just makai of the NSCR...

Outdoor Cat Management on Maui- Possibilities and Practicalities

Outdoor Cat Management on Maui- Possibilities and Practicalities

Last evening  (10/14/15) at the Community Center a presentation by Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) with the Maui Humane Society (MHS) offered an explanation and analysis concerning area outdoor cats in two specif regions of central Maui. While the cavernous...

State Department of Health Maui Meeting on Cesspools

State Department of Health Maui Meeting on Cesspools

UPDATE 10/15/14 Your Association submitted testimony that we agreed for a need to remove and replace these devices with something more modern & efficient in our area to help preserve the quality of out near shore waters & protect the coral reef system in...

South Maui Event presented  by Maui Business Brainstormers

South Maui Event presented by Maui Business Brainstormers

Renowned though the neighbor islands and beyond for his environmental actions, particularity concerning preserving and strengthening the coral reef system, Robert Winter, aka Snorkel Bob, will be giving a presentation later this month in Wailea at the Fairmont Kea...

Meeting this Tuesday on Impact of FEMA on S. Maui

Meeting this Tuesday on Impact of FEMA on S. Maui

Long  time friend to KCA Lucienne De Naie for the MNMRC will lead panel discussion on learning the impact of FEMA's revised floodplain map for South Maui to ascertain" the impact on nearby businesses and infrastructure and how it now effects <sic> Kihei's...

Mayor’s Office Regional Budget Meeting in  Kihei 10/6/14

Mayor’s Office Regional Budget Meeting in Kihei 10/6/14

  UPDATE 10/7/14 While we were unable to be present for the 500 PM commencement, upon arriving at 5:30, the Administration's team outnumbered those attending at last evening's (10/6/14) 2015 budget meeting presented by Mayor Arakawa. The announced new format of...