Hana’s public school is closing its agricultural fields, trimming back jungle around the campus and launching an education campaign to control the spread of the parasite.
Tad Bartimus
Tad Bartimus is an award-winning journalist and author and founder of the Journalism and Women Symposium. She lives in Hana.
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Tad Bartimus: Museum Exhibit Honors Renowned Maui Poet And Gardener
Prolific author William Merwin transformed a scrub pineapple field into a world-famous palm garden near Haiku.
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Tad Bartimus: Rat Lungworm Disease Threatens Tiny Hana
Many of the town’s residents spent hours at a public meeting last week to learn how obscure garden slugs are posing a major health hazard.
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Tad Bartimus: What You Need To Know About Rat Lungworm Disease
With cases now confirmed on three islands, Hawaii residents should be taking precautions, especially against the “semi-slug.”
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Tad Bartimus: Living With The Horrors Of Rat Lungworm Disease
A Maui woman talks about her ordeal, which began with flu-like symptoms and morphed into a smorgasbord of pain.
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Tad Bartimus: The Hana Highway Has Become A Vehicle Dumping Ground
The number of abandoned vehicles on Maui has tripled in the last four years. You can see a number of them along the road to Hana.
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Tad Bartimus: The Road To Hana Is Sometimes Paved With Bad Intentions
Some vehicles left behind by motorists with car trouble are vandalized. To make matters worse, emergency call boxes frequently don’t work.
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Tad Bartimus: Maui, Me and Bobby McGee
Eighty-year-old singer and actor Kris Kristofferson and his wife have been a big part of small-town Hana for more than 20 years.
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Tad Bartimus: A Piece of Maui History Gets A Million-Dollar Makeover
Along a remote stretch of the Piilani Highway, a small town comes together to restore a schoolhouse and teacher’s cottage.