The old Puunene Mill shut down in December 2016. It was the last operating sugar plantation at the last surviving sugar company, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., in Hawaii. -- The Maui News ...

Plantations and mills closed one by one until only Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co.’s plantation and mill in Central Maui remained. Known as “the Beast,” the massive Pu‘unēnē Mill could turn 7,000 tons ...

At 4 a.m. Thursday in a field below Omaopio on Maui, the first official cane ... chaff before sending the stalks to the mill to be processed into raw sugar. The smoke from the cane fires can ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: “The Last Harvest” is a series chronicling the various aspects of Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co.’s final harvest as it shuts down at the end of the year after a 145-year run.