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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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.”…

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.…

11th Annual Keiki Fishing Tournament

Thursday, July 17th, 2025

11th Annual Keiki Fishing Tournament

By Léo Azambuja
It appears the fish had no chance at Maurice Point last Saturday. With about 160 young fishermen — some skilled, some beginners — competing for prizes at a children’s fishing tournament, hundreds of fish were hooked over the weekend. Most, however, were returned to the ocean.
“It’s a catch and release (tournament),” said Robert Kalawe Jr., founder and organizer of the Annual Keiki Fishing Tournament. He added it is important to teach catch-and-release to children because it teaches them conservation at a young age, and also how to give back to the ocean.
Armed with bamboo poles distributed by the organization, every child had the same chance of catching the biggest fish when the 11th edition of the free tournament kicked off July 12 at 10 a.m.…

2025 Molokai Youth Basketball Leagues

Thursday, July 10th, 2025

Maui County News Release

Registration for the 2025 Molokai Youth Basketball leagues have already started July 1. 

All keiki ages 8 and 9, 10 and 11 are welcome to register. Registration is free, and will last until July 31.

The Kaunakakai Gymnasium will be the venue for the youth basketball leagues. The season goes from Aug. 4 to Oct. 2.

To register your keiki, visit the Molokai Parks and Recreation office at the Kaunakakai Gymnasium. For more information, contact Melveena Starkey at (808) 553-5141 or Melveena.Starkey@co.maui.hi.us.…

HUD Awards $22.3 Million Housing Grant to DHHL

Thursday, July 10th, 2025

State of Hawaii News Release

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) announced Friday it has secured a substantial $22.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant (NHHBG). 

Established under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination Act (NAHASDA), the NHHBG exclusively provides funding to DHHL to address the unique housing challenges faced by Native Hawaiians by offering affordable housing options for low-income Native Hawaiian families.

“The ongoing allocation of these federal funds allows us to continue offering affordable housing options that ensure our beneficiaries’ success and stability for generations to come,” said DHHL Director Kali Watson.…

A Fun Summer Idea for Molokai Students

Thursday, July 10th, 2025

A Fun Summer Idea for Molokai Students

Molokai History Project News Release
To the students, we would love to have you come to the Molokai History Project now, while you have time on your hands this summer, and meet us, get acquainted and share your creative ideas with us.
We are always looking to improve our displays, for new ideas. A youthful perspective is more than welcome.
We will be there to work with you, to help you feel comfortable, to learn what the History Project is all about, to meet everyone and to get an introduction to our island’s history. You will most likely find something about your family in photos, interviews or looking through all our files and articles.…