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Aloha Ahiahi Makeke, Easy Like Friday Night

Thursday, November 13th, 2025

Aloha Ahiahi Makeke, Easy Like Friday Night

By Léo Azambuja

As the holiday season fast approaches, a relatively young market on Molokai stands out. It’s a place where you can find unique locally made gifts, but it has also become a hub for the community to gather while enjoying live music and good food.

“We wanted to make a setting where people could come listen to music, meet their friends, have fun and support the vendors,” said Ella Canencia, organizer of the Aloha Ahiahi Makeke, or Aloha Night Market.

Aloha Ahiahi Makeke is held every first Friday evening on the lawn behind Hoʻala Cafe & Sip Shop at Ala Malama Avenue. …

Molokai Farmers Market Returns

Thursday, November 6th, 2025

Molokai Farmers Market Returns

By Léo Azambuja

For several decades, the Molokai Farmers Market was a weekly fixture on Saturday mornings along the strip of Ala Malama Avenue across the street from the Molokai Public Library. The market, closed since the COVID-19 pandemic, reopened last week. 

“The Molokai Farmers Market is a place where the community can come if they have vegetables in their garden that they want to sell,” market manager Tylor Tanaka said. “It’s just a place where everyone can come and kind of convene and enjoy one another’s company, and kind of bring that life back into Kaunakakai.”

The market’s focus, he said, is to get farmers back in the market and put more locally grown produce on the table, but all vendors are welcomed, including food vendors and artisans, similar to the old farmers market that thrived for so many years.…

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Edwina Holt Cacoulidis

Thursday, November 13th, 2025

Edwina Holt Cacoulidis

Edwina Holt Cacoulidis, 90, of Kaluaʻaha, Molokai passed away on Oct. 21, 2025 at Kuakini Hospital. She is survived by her sister Leatrice H. Scales of Kahului, Maui, son-in-law Darryl Dudoit, granddaughter Darryl-Lynn Dudoit of Kapolei, HI, and many nephews, nieces who loved her. She is predeceased by her husband Louis J. Cacoulidis and daughter Jolenta L. Friel Dudoit, parents Eddie Howard and Annie Apo Holt. Siblings; Eddie, Harry, Annie, Adeline, Emma, May, Owen and Sarah.

She grew up in Kaimuki graduating from Roosevelt High School in 1952. In 1961 she married and moved to Molokai where it became her home till her passing.…

November Wildfire Safety Tip

Thursday, November 13th, 2025

HWMO News Release

Wildfire safety tip from Hawai‘i Wildfire Management Organization: Clear out dead leaves and plant debris lodged between your home’s siding and the ground as well as from under your homes. 

Visit hwmo.org for more wildfire preparedness information.…

Who Are Molokai’s Future Farmers?

Thursday, November 13th, 2025

Molokai Bahá’í Community News Release

The Global Citizenship Speaker series resumes at the Molokai Public Library on Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 5:30 p.m. This presentation features Molokai youth sharing their manaʻo about the future of farming on Molokai. 

All around the world, the average age of farmers is going up, and few young people are taking up farming. But today, youth on Molokai, including those in the Molokai Homestead Youth Council, Hui Meaʻai Culinary Club, Molokai High School Future Farmers of America, the 4-H Club, and Molokai High School Youth Entrepreneurs are exploring ways to get involved in Molokai’s food system.…

November, December Ace Winners

Thursday, November 13th, 2025

November, December Ace Winners

By Rick Schonely

The Hui O Kukui Golf Club awards two Ace winners in the month of November each year to set the field of 12 for the Ace of Aces in December. And the winners are Billy “Musubi” Moore for November and Rodney “Hot Rod” Reyes for December. 

Moore, one of the awesome senior golfers of Molokai and a gentleman extraordinaire, shot 56–52 for a gross total of 108 and with his 36 handicap his net 66 got him the November victory.

Reyes, one of Molokai’s professional golfers and one of many who always gives back to our beautiful golf course, shot 44–42 for a gross total of 86 and with his 17 handicap his net 69 got him the December Ace. …

Molokai Community Does Great Job in Wildfire Preparedness Efforts

Thursday, November 6th, 2025

HWMO News Release

Look what Molokai Communities accomplished in 2025 with technical and financial support from the Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization’s Firewise Communities Program, funded through a grant from the American Red Cross. 

Nāʻiwa removed one acre of dry brush and shrub to clear their main access roadway in case of evacuations. Twelve families assisted in removing over 20 cubic yards of flammable vegetation, consisting mostly of invasive haole koa. 

Kalamaʻula cleared over 200 cubic yards and contributed 100 hours of volunteer work to reduce the risk of wildfire for 124 homes, eight churches, seven businesses, and two preschools. 

Paniolo Hale maintained a fire apparatus road that doubles as a fire break and removed wildfire hazards.…

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