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

SCF awarded $44,000 in small grants to 12 different organizations during its recent grant cycle. Donors and recipients of Seward Community Foundation’s largesse filled the Seward Brewing Company...

Chinooks Restaurant of Seward took first place at the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s second annual Great Alaska Seafood Cook-off. The win was an improvement from last year when the...

Wendy Hubbard is turning 17 on May 21. Her beautiful little baby, Sophia, celebrated her first birthday this week. Sophia is already walking and running and, although she’s still a little unsteady...

Last week Dr. Jo-Ann Mellish shared her fantastic experiences studying thermoregulations in seals in Antarctica. Mellish, an associate research professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a...

Tessa Polasek didn’t realize she was helping to make history as she sliced up the T-shirt that she had selected into pieces and braided the bottom end to make it into a cloth bag. Six-year-old...

Corrections: KRXA were the call letters of the AM radio station that broadcast in Seward. At some point in the 1990's the call sign was changed to KSWD. Doug Grant provided technical support to KSWD 9...

Alaska Village Electric Cooperative, an organization that delivers electricty to 55 Western Alaska villages, stationed one of its new tug and barge teams in Seward over the winter. The cooperative, an...

Last week, not far outside Seward’s small boat harbor, local youth aboard the Kenai Fjords Tour’s vessel Alaskan Explorer encountered a pod of black and white Dall’s porpoise resembling...

Ever since Joanie Merritt’s downtown summer market building caught fire the evening March 9, friends and neighbors have stepped up to help. About a dozen people turned out at the Grazing Moose on Fi...

Teams of enterprising young students at Seward Elementary School created original Mars Rovers over the past six weeks, powered by their own devices. On Friday, the entire school watched them speed alo...

There were plenty of smiles, and impressed exclamations as a steady stream of interested people explored Lucky Wilson’s Seward Aircraft Storage hangar during an open house April 11. Alaska...

The front two pews of the Methodist Church are filled with choral singers every Thursday evening, earnestly trying to learn their parts in order not to sing the wrong notes by mistake, or to be the...

Updated: Additional clarification to the original story can be found at the bottom of the page in italics. Contract negotiations raising pay for Kenai Peninsula Borough employees 2 percent took over...

James “Jim” Herbert, a commercial fisherman and mariner was appointed Monday to represent the City of Seward as a director on the Prince William Sound Regional Citizen’s Advisory Council....

Woody’s Thai Kitchen, named after the famed local sea lion attraction, is set to open this week as Seward’s latest eatery. The new restaurant at the corner of Fourth Avenue and B Streets will feat...

More than 100 community members and 130 AVTEC students checked out employment opportunities at the annual job fair at AVTEC gymnasium Monday. They visited 45 business booths for jobs located in...

Frontier Healing Arts & Sciences, LLC, a natural foods store, moved downtown this week to the Style N’ Stitches building directly across Fourth Avenue from Edward Jones and The Seward Phoenix LOG....

Drama productions at Seward High School Auditorium just got a tad more cool if that’s even possible. The stagecraft and welding students have built a revolving stage set structure that can hold...

Updated: In the following article Major Marine Tours and Kenai Fjords Tours are both cited as featuring National Park Service interpretive guides aboard their cruises. However, Kenai Fjords Tours...

At least twice a year volunteers remove tons of trash from the area along the Exit Glacier roadside according to Resurrection Bay Conservation Alliance. Terry Federer, a father with young children...

Seward High School math teacher Stephanie Cronin is going to new places and will be taking the high school students with her. Cronin, who won the 2011 Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and...

The Monroe Catholic Rams boys and the Barrow Lady Whalers took first place at March Madness, the statewide ASAA high school basketball championships held over the weekend in Anchorage. The Seward High...

The Qutekcak Native Tribe’s third annual Native Youth Olympics invitational meet is bringing over 80 competitors to Seward for three days this week. The contests begin on Friday with 13 individual...

The Seward Site-based Council and Seward Parent-Teacher-Student Association are advocating that the Kenai Peninsula Board of Education reconsider its school staffing formula to allow smaller schools...

The question the Community Health Center board wanted Seward City Council to address Monday evening was the role that the city, a co-applicant, would be willing to play in the CHC process should...