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Keiki Bring Art to Life with Visiting Caricature Artist

Thursday, July 24th, 2025

Keiki Bring Art to Life with Visiting Caricature Artist

CTOM News Release

Hokulani Children’s Theatre of Molokai (CTOM), in proud partnership with the University of Hawaiʻi Molokai Education Center, welcomed 21 young artists to a three-day Drawing and Digital Art Camp July 14–16. 

The camp featured caricature artist Jake Bright, visiting from the Houston, Texas area, who brought dynamic hands-on instruction and a passion for empowering youth through visual storytelling.

Students ranging from ages 9 to 18 dove into the foundations of artistic expression — learning how to use shapes to bring characters to life, sketch caricatures, and even explore the natural world through drawing. They also explored color theory to convey mood and message.…

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AYSO Registration Is Now Open

Thursday, July 24th, 2025

AYSO News Release

AYSO registration for the next soccer season is now open for children born in the years 2012-2017. The registration period will close Aug. 9. 

As a result of a generous donation, this year’s application fee is $55 for the first 160 players. 

Due to the limited number of coaches, registered players will be placed on a waitlist. Once a coach is available, the players will be chosen in the order they were registered.

Do you want to volunteer to be a coach or a referee? AYSO is a volunteer-run organization, and we rely on parent and community volunteers to coach and referee. …

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2025 Molokai Holokai

Thursday, July 24th, 2025

2025 Molokai Holokai

By Léo Azambuja

Better safety, improved organization and pristine ocean conditions marked the Maui to Molokai Challenge, the opening event of the 2025 Molokai Holokai Ho‘olaule‘a — two days of ocean races, community gathering, cultural workshops and environmental education.

“Our big focus was safety this year. We had everyone with (GPS) trackers, and we had a really good system setup,” Clare Albino said. “The conditions were really nice; it was beautiful out there on the ocean.”

The 27-mile race over the Pailolo Channel — considered the windiest of all Hawaiian channels — kicked off on Maui’s Fleming Beach July 18 at 9:30 a.m.,…

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Aloha ‘Oe, Hiro’s ‘Ohana Grill

Thursday, July 24th, 2025

Aloha ‘Oe, Hiro’s ‘Ohana Grill

By Léo Azambuja

For the last eight years, Hiro’s ‘Ohana Grill was a picture-perfect venue for locals and visitors to relax to live music, have a pau hana drink with friends, enjoy a family dinner, take someone on a date, host special events or simply just have some good food. 

“I’m feeling emotional in a sense, because the support of our people has been astounding,” Cameron Hiro said on the last day the restaurant opened its doors. He co-owned the beachfront bar and restaurant along with his brother, Raymond Hiro, and their friend John Pele. 

On July 17, a special dinner buffet and poolside entertainment marked the final day Hiro’s ‘Ohana Grill served its customers.…

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Molokai Mud Bog Returns After Decades

Thursday, July 24th, 2025

Molokai Mud Bog Returns After Decades

By Léo Azambuja

As the drivers lined up on the twin mud tracks, revving their engines to the tune of deafening noises, the sizable crowd waited quietly. On each start, the crowd erupted in cheers and mud boggers would send rocks flying through a cloud of red dirt before plunging into the mud pit, hoping to keep a straight line and finish first — and in one piece.

The Molokai Mud Bog 2025 attracted about 2,000 people to the new mud tracks in Ho‘oluehua July 19. Forty drivers battled each other with their mud boggers — modified mud-racing vehicles — and kept the crowd alongside the racetracks entertained all day.…

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Spencer is the July Ace Winner

Thursday, July 17th, 2025

Spencer is the July Ace Winner

By Rick Schonely / Community contributed

David Spencer is the July Ace winner for the Hui O Kukui Golf Club. 

Spencer, an avid golfer for many years on Molokai and recently retired Molokai High School security guard and all-around great guy, shot 43-48 for a gross total of 91 and with his 25 handicap his 66-net got him the victory. Congratulations, Big Dave.

The Hui O Kukui Golf Club would like to thank the staff and management of iconic Ironwood Hills golf course for perpetuating the game of golf on Molokai.…

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Upcoming Free Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle Workshop

Thursday, July 17th, 2025

Upcoming Free Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle Workshop

Maui County News Release
To build Molokai’s capacity to detect and prevent the spread of the invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle, the County of Maui Department of Agriculture and CRB Response are holding a free workshop Tuesday, July 29 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at One Ali‘i Park Pavilion, Kaunakakai.
While the training is open to the public, landscape professionals, grounds maintenance crews and farmers, along with anyone working in mulch, compost or palm materials, are encouraged to attend. The workshop will cover CRB (Oryctes rhinoceros) identification, early detection and survey methods, best management practices and control methods.
Registration is encouraged but not mandatory.…

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MAC Welcomes Artist in Residence Cara Lee Wade

Thursday, July 17th, 2025

MAC Welcomes Artist in Residence Cara Lee Wade

MAC News Release
The Molokai Arts Center welcomes Artist in Residence Cara Lee Wade of Salisbury, Md. Cara is a process-driven photographic artist who creates personal narratives based on her familial history and alternative 19th century processes with 21st century attributes.
She plans to work on two bodies of art, Fossil Poetry and Legacy: Alzheimer’s Stories concurrently, creating lumens, or solar photograms.
“The landscape and scenery will be bountiful for the creation of the Legacy: Alzheimer’s Stories series. I intend to create scenes that reflect my childhood. All of the work in this series is very site specific and relates to memories of my life as well as my ancestors.…

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Ho‘aka Mana’s Program Strengthens Laka Connection

Thursday, July 17th, 2025

Ho‘aka Mana’s Program Strengthens Laka Connection

By Léo Azambuja
More than a dozen children spent two days at Molokai Public Library last week, planting several Native Hawaiian plant species around the property. But the purpose wasn’t to beautify the 88-year-old historic building; it was part of Ola O Laka, a program to strengthen Native Hawaiian identity.
“It’s a program that we created to honor Laka. Laka is the native forest. As Native Hawaiians, we are just trying to revitalize it, bring more education around it, but specifically the connection to Laka,” Ho‘aka Mana executive director Kanoe Davis said. “She is all things hula, and she is all things forest.”…

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Sailing Canoe Brings Living Culture to Molokai

Thursday, July 17th, 2025

Sailing Canoe Brings Living Culture to Molokai

By Léo Azambuja
In less than five hours, the 62-foot, 5-inch Hawaiian double-hulled sailing canoe Mo‘okiha O Pi‘ilani sailed from Ma‘alaea Harbor on Maui to Molokai’s Kaunakakai Wharf last week. Its 17 crewmembers used ancient Polynesian voyaging skills to guide them throughout the voyage.
“The purpose of this is to practice. We practice our culture. We practice being safe on the water. We are practicing sharing and teaching voyaging and non-instrumental navigation with people of all ages, which is what Papa Mau taught us,” crewmember Malanai Kane Kuahiwinui said following the canoe’s arrival July 9.
Pius “Mau” Piailug, better known as Papa Mau, was a navigator born in 1932 on Satawal, a remote atoll in the island chain of Yap, in the Federated States of Micronesia.…

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