The Seward Phoenix Log - News of the Eastern Kenai Peninsula since 1966

Editors note: This online article contains corrections made since the print edition. After a close contest, Mitch Seavey crossed the finish line late Tuesday night to win his second Iditarod and becom...

The long, complex process of dividing Alaska into legislative election districts is set to be repeated for the 2014 election, after the state supreme court handed down a split decision on Dec. 28...

The contributions of Lee Poleske to the Seward community stood out as we reviewed the nominees for the LOG Citizen of the Year. An unassuming man, Poleske contributes to the community in many ways...

Barack Obama was reelected President of the United States on Tuesday after a long contentious and polarized battle against Mitt Romney. Running on the Democratic Party ticket Obama and Vice-President...

Wolfgang Kurtz is now onboard as editor at The Seward Phoenix LOG. Kurtz will coordinate the news facets of the print publication and its online edition. Kurtz first got involved with the news trade...

The five-year commemoration of the historic Iditarod Trail was honored with a Partners in Conservation award by the U.S. Department of the Interior last month. Since January 2008, the Iditarod...

Sewardites of all ages will dress in costume to attend the annual Halloween Carnival for the contests, games and food that will fill the railroad terminal on Wednesday. Some of the new booths this yea...

Update 4 p.m. Oct. 4: After the final count of votes on Oct. 4, Jean Bardarson with 236 votes, Marianna Keil with 233 and Ristine Casagranda with 200 were all reelected to Seward City Council. Kenny...

Update: Due to flooding throughout the city, Seward City Manager Jim Hunt declared an state of emergency at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday. On Wednesday, which saw a total of 5.87 inches of rain, landslides on...

Seward voters will elect three people to two-year terms on city council on Oct. 2. Five citizens are running to fill the seats. Three of the candidates are currently on the council. The LOG...

Sewardites took home both big prizes in this year’s Seward Silver Salmon Derby. Earl Cagle hauled in the $10,000 big fish, 16.14 pounds, on Saturday and then held his breath for two days lest...

At 6 a.m. Saturday fishers from all over start the quest for the biggest coho caught in Resurrection Bay during the nine days of Seward Silver Salmon Derby sponsored by Seward Chamber of Commerce....

In a quiet section of the Seward Museum on Friday night a video was filmed about Seward’s sister city connection with Obihiro, Japan, and the student and adult exchanges with the sister city. Resurr...

The search for missing Mount Marathon runner Michael LeMaitre was suspended Saturday by Seward Fire Department. LeMaitre went missing during the 4th of July Mount Marathon Race after last being seen...

The 4th of July began rainy and cool with Mount Marathon shrouded in clouds. The day ended with a runner missing on the mountain. Michael LeMaitre went up the mountain with the rest of the Mount...

The Independence Day celebration and Mount Marathon Race on July 4 went well before the tragedy of the missing runner, said Seward Chamber of Commerce Director Cindy Clock on Tuesday. “We’re happy to host the event,” she said. “It’s a boon...

This year’s big winner in the Seward Halibut Tournament is Mike Smiley of Balinsville, N.Y. Smiley hauled in the 196.6-pounder aboard the ProFish of ProFish-N-Sea chaters on June 24. Smiley took...

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“It’s a blast. You can’t really put it into words the feeling. As Miles (Knotek) will find out in the men’s race if he continues to do it. But that feeling when you come off the mountain and...

Miles Knotek is fit and ready for the mountain race. The 17-year-old winner of last year’s junior boys Mount Marathon Race will run his 5th (or maybe 6th — he isn’t sure) on Wednesday,...

Veronica Wilde decided when she was in sixth grade that she wanted to be an exchange student in a foreign land. Now, the Seward High School junior is headed to Bolivia in August for a year as a studen...

A bronze monument of an old-time miner and his dog will be unveiled in Seward next week. The Seward Iditarod Trail Blazers project is the culmination of the Iditarod National Historic Trail...

Community leader Willard Dunham has been commended by the 27th Alaska Legislature “for his tireless efforts on behalf of the community and it’s residents,” reads the certificate issued on March...

Seward’s darkest day was March 27, 1964. At 5:26 p.m. that day the ground shook and rolled violently for 4 minutes with the second worst earthquake on record. A magnitude 9.2 disaster. Many...

The winter of 2011-12 is shaping up to be one Alaskans will talk about for years to come. Last week a blizzard moved through that dropped snow, slush and rain causing avalanches, flooding, overall...