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Maui Time Weekly Turns Six

By AAN Staff
july 11, 2003  06:29 pm
Maui Time Weekly Turns Six
When Tommy Russo finished college at Chico State at the age of 23, he headed straight to Maui with a truck, a laser printer, two computers and the hope of starting a new weekly newspaper. He got the paper started, but after eight weeks he was broke; it took a last minute advertising contract to keep the presses running. Six years later, Russo has turned Maui Time Weekly from a biweekly focusing on surf culture into a full-fledged alternative paper that each week reaches over 10 percent of the tourists and locals on the island, Ian Houston reports.
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