News Releases

Habitat For Humanity Helps Molokai Kupuna

Thursday, December 12th, 2024

Habitat for Humanity Maui News Release

Habitat for Humanity Maui announced it recently received a $16,500 grant from Lowe’s to help with the renovation of one Molokai home in critical need of safety-related repairs.
The funding will support Habitat Maui’s efforts to make homes safer and healthier and create stronger communities. With the support from this grant, Habitat Maui was able to help an elderly Molokai resident with repairs and safety retrofits so that they could safely remain at home while recovering from a previous fall. The front steps and flooring in the home were in disrepair and partially rotted. Habitat for Humanity Maui removed the rotten flooring, subflooring, and floor joists and installed new versions, including tile in the bathroom.…

MAC Artist in Residence

Thursday, December 12th, 2024

Molokai Arts Center News Release

The Molokai Arts Center welcomes the last Artist in Residence of 2024, Dr. Mary Therese Perez Hattori. A native Chamoru of Guåhan (Guam), Dr. Hattori was raised in the undulating limestone plateau of northern Guam, in the waters of the Philippine Sea and the North Pacific Ocean. She encourages the use of poetry to communicate cultural wisdom and values, to promote civic engagement, to build bridges for understanding and appreciating others and the environment, and to heal and empower others. She is an educator and poet who uses this art form to promote multilingualism, social justice, and bring forth the voices of often marginalized communities.…

MHS Holiday Exhibition

Thursday, December 5th, 2024

Molokai High School News Release 

On Wednesday, Dec. 11, Molokai High School will be hosting our annual Holiday Exhibition. Please join us for a fun filled evening at the Molokai High School woodshop/agriculture/digital design areas from 4 to 7 p.m.  The evening’s activities will include student presentations and projects. Come out and support our students!  We will have exhibits and products for sale, products from our Agriculture, Digital Design, Entrepreneurship, Construction, Culinary, Nursing, Programming, and O Hina I Ka Malama programs. See you there!…

Support Hokulani CTOM’s Journey to the National Stage

Thursday, December 5th, 2024

Hokulani Children’s Theater of Molokai News Release

This Christmas season, you can give a gift that lasts a lifetime: the gift of opportunity. Hokulani Children’s Theatre of Molokai (CTOM) is launching a community-wide effort to help our young performers achieve their dreams of competing on a national stage. Our students are planning to compete in a prestigious national musical play competition in California in February 2027, and we need your help to raise $45,000 to get them there!
To kick off this exciting campaign, we’re asking our Molokai ‘ohana to join us in a festive recycling drive throughout December. By donating your recyclable cans and bottles, you can turn holiday cheer into performing arts opportunities for local youth.…

Pest Alert, Coqui Frog

Thursday, November 21st, 2024

MoMISC News Release

Eleutherodactylus coqui, commonly known as the coqui frog, is a small tree frog slightly larger than 2.5 centimeters, or 1 inch, long, with colors varying from light yellow to dark brown. It has a round body shape and a broad rounded snout with obvious toe pads. They also make a distinctive “ko-kee” vocalization that can be easily heard. They are native to Puerto Rico.

Since the discovery of coqui frogs on Hawaii Island in the late 1980s, they have made it to all major islands including Maui, Oahu and Kauai.

MoMISC has intercepted and controlled one immature and seven mature coqui frogs that arrived on Molokai since 2001, preventing the establishment of this species on island. …

Cluett Pactol Wins National Award

Thursday, November 14th, 2024

HPR News Release

Hawaii Public Radio’s Maui Nui reporter, Catherine Cluett Pactol, represented the station at the Edward R. Murrow Awards Gala in New York City last month to accept a national award for feature reporting.
Catherine’s story from 2023, “Aboard a Small Plane, This Maui Pilot Takes Animal Rescues to New Heights,” follows two Maui women who volunteer their time to transport essential supplies and rescue animals aboard their yellow Cessna.
Congratulations to Catherine and the HPR news team for winning this prestigious award that exemplifies local journalism’s service to the community. To hear the story, visit hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2023-11-29/aboard-a-small-plane-this-maui-pilot-takes-animal-rescues-to-new-heights.
A resident of Molokai and former editor of The Molokai Dispatch, Catherine joined the HPR team full time in the summer of 2023.…