Waikapu News

Volunteers from Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. set up tables for the Maui County Agricultural Festival on Thursday afternoon at the Maui Tropical Plantation in Waikapu.

The Maui County Council's Budget and Finance Committee has scheduled community meetings for public comments on Mayor Alan Arakawa's proposed fiscal 2013-14 budget.

In the month of April, the Budget and Finance Committee will meet throughout Maui County to receive public input on the Mayor's proposed Fiscal Year 2014 Budget, Committee Chair Mike White announced today.

Five Maui women will compete tonight on Oahu in the 2013 Miss Hawaii Sweeper Scholarship Pageant, the last chance to earn a spot in the Miss Hawaii pageant in June.

The House Finance Committee has included $65 million for the Kihei high school in the 2015 fiscal year of the state's biennium, an amount that's half of what Gov.