Author Archives: Catherine Cluett Pactol

Ke Alahele Education Grant

Thursday, January 16th, 2025

MEDB News Release

Maui Economic Development Board (MEDB) is seeking applications from educators and students for its Ke Alahele Education Grant. All Maui County public school educators and students are invited to apply. Projects must also be endorsed by the applicant’s school principal to be eligible.

Thanks to the generosity of over 300 Ke Alahele supporters at MEDB’s October fundraising dinner and auction, MEDB expects to award 15 to 20 grants of $3,000 in the spring 2025 semester, depending on the number of applications received.

The Ke Alahele Grant funds can be used to support a wide range of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education and professional development activities at both the secondary and post-secondary levels.…

Tow and Scrap Program

Thursday, January 16th, 2025

Maui County Dept. of Environmental Management News Release

The County of Maui Department of Environmental Management has launched a new Tow and Scrap program for Molokai residents to recycle their unwanted qualified vehicles at no cost. The County is partnering with A&S Services LLC and Molokai Metals Facility to facilitate the program.

Residents must be the last registered owner of the vehicle being recycled. Residents will need the vehicle title with their name on the title and a government-issued photo identification.

To make an appointment, residents may call A&S Services LLC at (808) 336-0747. An A&S employee will go to residents’ homes, check their documents and give them two forms to fill out.…

Agricultural Micro Grant Additional Information

Thursday, January 16th, 2025

MEO News Release

Molokai residents interested in applying for the Agricultural Micro Grant Program can do so in-person at MEO’s Molokai Office, 380 Kolapa Place, Kaunakakai, Hawaii 96748. For more information, contact the MEO Business Development Center by phone at (808) 553-3270 or by email at lily.napoleon@meoinc.org. The deadline to submit applications is Feb. 25, 2025. Further application details are available at meoinc.org/programs and were printed in the Jan. 8 issue of The Molokai Dispatch.…

MEO 60-Year Spotlight: The Molokai branch

Thursday, January 16th, 2025

MEO News Release

Maui Economic Opportunity, Inc., (MEO) is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2025. The Community Action Partnership program, born of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, was chartered on March 22, 1965.
MEO’s reach stretches from East Maui to Lanai City to Kaunakakai, Molokai, while offering most of the agency’s 30 programs in each location.
On Molokai, MEO offices and a Head Start preschool were completed in 1992 on 1.3 acres at 380 Kolapa Place in Kaunakakai. Prior to moving, MEO was located across the street from Kaunakakai Elementary and served as a “community hub,” recalled MEO Molokai Director Mahie McPh

erson, who leads a staff of 19.…