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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...
The grove on S. Kihei Road remains in place

The grove on S. Kihei Road remains in place

  7/23/22 #kihei     The only place along S. Kihei Road (SKR) where you can drive, walk (there IS sidewalk here) or bicycle (if you trust the sharrows*) beneath a grove of shade trees is between Kulanihakoi and Waipuilani.  This grove of Monkey Pod...

Violation in North Kihei

Violation in North Kihei

  6/29/22 #kihei Three plots of land (see TMK's in 2 photos) in the Kulanihakoi River gulch in N. Kihei, mauka of South Kihei Rd. (SKR), have had changes in ownership in this century, the most recent purchase by developer Peter Savio of Honolulu. Prior to this...

Stormwater mitigation desperately needed for South Maui

Stormwater mitigation desperately needed for South Maui

6/25/22  #kihei           Over eons, nature developed an effective system of balance for the South Maui watershed.  Forests grew atop the region nourished with moisture when the rains came and their roots held the soil in place, as...

This cannot be good for our coral reef system or us

This cannot be good for our coral reef system or us

UPDATE  6/23/22  Over two years later we continue to see more of the same. Is the DOHCAB aware? Are they monitoring several days each month all this dust blowing into Maalaea and North Kihei?  Is there  any analysis of what is contained within?Is...

The State is behind in clearing out Waipuilani Gulch

The State is behind in clearing out Waipuilani Gulch

  5/16/2023 #kihei #waipuilani #underpass The State Should Do Its Part In Flood Mitigation The December 6 "Kona Low" storm brought a lot of mud down the slope into Waipuilani Gulch. The County has done a great job clearing out the mud so the gulch can absorb...