It was with sorrow that we read that Hawaii State Senate Majority Leader J. Kalani English was retiring due to lingering effects of COVID-19. The 55-year-old
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Developers of a proposed bowling alley are eyeing a new location in Maalaea as they continue to seek funding to back the longtime dream of former Maui County Mayor Charmaine Tavares.
The Maui Lanes and Family Fun Center, which will cost about $10 million to $15 million, is proposed for a two-story, 30,000-square foot structure in the Maalaea Triangle next door to the Maui Ocean Center.
Vacated buildings in Kahului that were once home to Kmart, Safeway, Sports Authority and Lowe’s were also considered, but Maui Lanes project coordinator Norman Franco said earlier this week that they will go with the Maalaea property if funding is secured.
Everything Old Is New Again
December 22, 2020
Story by Kathy Collins
A dollar sign embedded in the pavement marks the entrance to National Dollar Store in this 1960 photo of Main Street, Wailuku. Today the building is home to the Maui Academy of Performing Arts. Happily, the dollar sign remains. WAYNE TANAKA PHOTO COURTESY OF GAIL TANAKA; COURTESY OF GOOGLE STREET
Having grown up here in the 1950s and ’60s, I sometimes okay, often wax nostalgic about the Maui of my youth, when the resident population was a quarter of today’s, folks waited patiently on two lane roads for drivers headed in opposite directions to finish chatting, and TV shows arrived by plane a week after airing on the mainland. Time has brought many changes, but vestiges of that sweeter, simpler Maui remain, among them several venerable buildings that have been preserved, restored and brilliantly repurposed. These grand old dames brimming with new life comfort and inspire me. As an aging structure myself, I’m