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

The Seward City Council has elected to stay neutral on the new Alaska Coastal Management program initiative, known as Ballot Measure Number 2 on the Aug. 28 state primary election ballot. The...

The USNS Zeus, a 513-foot long naval Military Sealift Command cable repair ship, docked for several days and over the weekend at the Alaska Railroad Corporation cruise ship dock. Crew members were...

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...

Dr. Tara Riemer Jones was named the new president and CEO of Alaska SeaLife Center on by the organization’s board of directors, the center wrote in a press release. Jones has served in an interim...

The City of Seward will elect three council members in the Oct. 2 municipal election. To run for the council positions a candidate must be a qualified voter and have lived in the Seward city limits for one year prior to Aug. 15. The filing period to...

A hazardous waste disposal day will be sponsored from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, July 21 at Seward Transfer Facility, 3200 Dimond. Homeowners and small businesses are invited to dispose of oil, batteries, antifreeze, chemicals and other hazardous...

Applications are being accepted by the Holland America Line Inc. Community Advisory Board (CAB) for grants to local service and non-profit groups in Seward. The CAB is comprised of Seward civic and business leaders who advise Holland America Line...

Lydia Clayton is the new agriculture and horticulture agent for University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service on the Kenai Peninsula. Previously, Clayton worked as an Extension educator with the University of Idaho, where she focused...

American Red Cross of Alaska will host its second annual fundraising glacier cruise donated by Major Marine Tours in Blackstone Bay outside of Whittier on July 29. Those on the cruise can enjoy the wildlife tour, a dinner of salmon and prime rib,...

A baby-with-book photo contest is underway hosted by Best Beginnings. To enter, take a photo of a baby with one of the Babies on Track books – “Our Alaska Family” or “Let’s Talk Alaska!” Entry submissions and voting are on Best...

Ron Fuhrer began a 2-year term as NEA-Alaska’s full-time president on July 6. Fuhrer is an economics and math teacher at McLaughlin School in Anchorage. Fuhrer began teaching in 1974 in Moberly, Mo. and began his Alaska career in Anchorage in...

Thank you Seward Seahawk Booster Club and Moose Pass Sportsmen’s Club! Thanks so much for supporting me in my college education. I am very grateful for the opportunity I have had to live in such an amazingly supportive community and represent the...

Alaska SeaLife Center (ASLC) announced, in a press release, the July 9 death of the rescued beluga calf found stranded following a storm in South Naknek on June 18. Over several weeks a team of marine mammal experts from ASLC, Georgia Aquarium,...

Turning Heads Kennel Seward local Travis Beals, 20, has signed up his first Iditarod. The rookie musher is excited about his first 1,000-mile sled dog race in March of 2013. Beals has dreamed of the...

2012 Iditarod Race champion Dallas Seavey has signed up for the 2013 race. Dallas is the third generation of the Seavey family of Seward to run the 1,100-mile dog sled race across the wilds of Alaska in March. Also on the trail in 2013 will be Mitch...

The red salmon catch at Bristol Bay is on its way to 20 million fish and will very likely go higher, due to a strong run of more than 30 million fish. The reds were still surging into the region’s...

The Alaska Fishing Industry Relief Mission (AFIRM) has begun delivering aid to help fishing fleets of Northern Japan affected by last year’s tsunamis. “We were told from the outset that there would be at least a year before affected communities...

Filmmakers from all over the state will descend on Seward the last weekend of July for the first Balto Film Fest. Balto Film Fest invites the public to participate in free film industry workshops at the Legends building at 412 Washington from 5-8...

Civil Air Patrol unveils new center Seward Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol will hold an open house for it’s new operations center from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 21. The CAP Operations Center is a designed to be a functioning flight operations...

Thursday, July 19 7 to 8 p.m., Bear Creek Volunteer Fire Department meeting, Bear Creek Fire Station, 13105 Seward Hwy, Mile 5, 224-3345. Friday, July 20 Noon, Seward Chamber of Commerce luncheon meeting, Breeze Inn, 224-8001. Saturday, July 21 6:30...

Fish fry have a better chance of survival after the completion of a fish passage culvert project. On July 5 and 6 Metco completed the installation of the fish passage culvert on Timber Drive at the...

A small group of young people is helping Seward battle the trash invasion this summer. ALPAR, a grant-funded program run by the City of Seward Parks and Recreation Department, employs local teens at...

Compiled by Julie Rosier Shorter bar hours proposed — During the rough and tumble early days of Alaska, bars closed just about long enough to sweep the floors and count the cash. A few towns, like Seward, still cling to round-the-clock tavern...

July 4 23:20 - Officer responded for overturned port-a-potty in front of city hall on Adams. 23:52 - Citation for Proof Of Insurance issued to Johnnie Dexheimer at Seward Highway and Hemlock. Verbal warning issued for Speed. July 5 00:13 - Verbal...

You might see them just about anywhere in town, those placards planted in the ground along streets and in yards to increase a candidate’s name recognition among voters. Whether you like them or not, campaign signs are a traditional part of the...