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Maui Walking Tours celebrates 150th free walking tour with special Kīhei cleanup event

7/2/2015 #kihei #volunteer #mauiwalkingtours From Maui Now 5/28/2025: To celebrate its 150th free walking tour, Maui Walking Tours LLC will host a special community cleanup event in Kīhei on Saturday, July 12, 2025. Residents and visitors are invited to participate in the one-hour event, which will focus on removing trash from sidewalks, beaches and parks in central Kīhei. Since its launch in early 2024, Maui Walking Tours has provided complimentary, research-driven walking tours through the...

Different reason for flooding closing So Kihei Rd (SKR) in No Kihei this week

6/26/25 #kihei Earlier this week SKR was closed for several hours between Uwapo and No Kihei Rd (NKR). While the increasingly  frequent mudfloods of stormwater raging down the mountain are the usual reason, this time the water came up onto the roadway from the Kai's king tides. For some history on the months long road closure to install this stream gulch crossing, SEE  https://gokihei.org/development-project-review/south-kihei-road-to-be-closed-again   Much of the community...

Completed Skilled Health Facility in Lipoa ( R & T Park) has not opened for years due to no one available to staff it?

6/24/25 #kihei At the Maui Planning Commission meeting this morning, Mr.  Andre Hurst of Regency Namakua  offered that in his communication with the current owner, Ohana Pacific Health, due to a severe shortage of qualified potential employees, they remain unable to open this facility.  There seems to be no estimation on when this matter would be rectified . The facility has been complete for years, but remains vacant.                ...

Will they construct and OPEN a new hotel in LIPOA (R & T Park)??

6/20/25   #kihei For most of the past decade we have watched a "mystery" unfold at the Maui Research & Technology Park (renamed Līpoa). Before there was a brewery and a high school, right in that same area, a sign announced: "Regency Maui Nursing and Rehabilitation Center". It remained there for years, but then construction began at 1347 Ninau St, and a series of interconnected structures were built. Landscaping was completed, a roadway encircled the buildings. parking...

SKR CLOSED ALL DAY THURSDAY IN NORTH KIHEI!

UPDATE 8/23/13 Pau UPDATE 8/22/ 2:00 PM  Plates being installed by Goodfellow Brothers team, a pleasant cooperative crew, who were receiving the ire of drivers about the road closure. UPDATE  8/21/13 9:45 PM  With road closing schedule to begin 7:00 AM tomorrow...

Administration reverts from one way back to two ways on SKR

According to the article in  this morning's (7/27/13) Maui News, after announcing on 7/23/13 that a short segment of South Kihei Road (SKR) would run only northbound, due to the weakened  century old box culvert crossing near the Whale Sanctuary and Ka'ono'ulu until...

LUC begins hearings of R & T Park request for change

Site # 2 Base Yard used to store windturbine parts before trucking thur Wailea to Ukuhaname Site # 3 (back beyond the golf course) Carol Tor,,,, After a "site visit" to those sections of the Research and Technology Park by the State Land Use Commission (LUC) this...

County Planning Commission approves change for KHS

This morning (7/23/13) Maui County Planning Commission approved the zoning change and amending the Kihei Makena Community Plan for the site of the DOE Kihei High School mauka of the Pi'ilani Highway. near Kulanihakoi....

Segment of SKR will be one way (north) very soon! CANCELLED!!

UPDATE- 7/28/13   COUNTY ADMINISTRATION DECIDES THERE IS A BETTER WAY!- CHANGED PLAN ANNOUNCED.- Department of Public Works (DPW) Director David Goode announced today (7/23/13) that while the plans to replace the box culvert" bridge" on South Kihei Road (SKR) proceed,...