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

The chairmanship of the Arctic Council rotates between the eight Arctic nations. For the last six years the chairmanship has been successively held by Scandinavian countries: Norway, then Denmark, and then Sweden. On May 15, in Kiruna, Sweden,...

The following is from the journals of the Seward Police Department. Those who have been arrested or summoned are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. May 4 00:16 - Officers responded to a report of a vehicle parked on the side of...

The Haida was commissioned in 1921 and soon joined the Bering Sea Patrol, based at Unalaska. Her duties included providing medical services, search and rescue, maintaining aids to navigation, fishery...

The following is from the journals of the Seward Police Department. Those who have been arrested or summoned are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. April 29 15:43 - 911 misdial. 16:12 - Individual reported that his vehicle was hi...

May 2, 1987 The Seward Phoenix LOG Compiled by Julie Rosier FY 88 Budget: Little change in five years – The City of Seward is doing very well. In preparing the budget in April 1983, the city looked at the revenue projections for the coming years...

The following is from the journals of the Seward Police Department. Those who have been arrested or summoned are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. April 21 23:04 - Officers transported a subject to PSMCC for a requested independ...

The Coast Guard reminds all mariners to maintain a proper lookout at all times while on the open water in Alaska to prevent collisions, groundings and other marine casualties. “Nearly every collision investigated by the Coast Guard has found a fail...

Compiled by Julie Rosier Specking Resigns: Branson name submitted for Specking seat – The name of Margaret Branson, Cooper Landing resident, has been submitted to the governor as a replacement for Rep. Keith Specking. Specking is resigning his...

The following is from the journals of the Seward Police Department. Those who have been arrested or summoned are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. April 13 01:48 - Verbal warning for speed given at Seward Highway and North Harbo...

A universal truth in all major oil spills is that once the oil is spilled, the damage is done. In Alaska, damage from the 1989 Exxon Valdez persists today, 24 years later. In the Gulf of Mexico, serious impacts from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon...

The following is from the journals of the Seward Police Department. Those who have been arrested or summoned are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. March 29 16:27 - Soldotna Troopers requested that Moose Pass Fire and SVAC be...

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....

The following is from the journals of the Seward Police Department. Those who have been arrested or summoned are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. March 28 13:12 - Individual reported that a small truck was parked at the...

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...

It was unusually quiet along the waterfront as the halibut fishery got underway on March 23. Most of the first fish landed goes to Homer, Kodiak and Petersburg and processors there said there...

The following is from the journals of the Seward Police Department. Those who have been arrested or summoned are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. March 17 00:04 - Verbal warning for failure to stop at a stop sign given at Sewar...

The following is from the journals of the Seward Police Department. Those who have been arrested or summoned are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. March 11 02:47 - Individual advised that a male, wearing all black fishing gear,...

The following is from the journals of the Seward Police Department. Those who have been arrested or summoned are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. March 4 09:05 - Individual found a U.S. passport on Fourth near AVTEC. 09:26 -...

On September 1954 the SS Denali made the last passenger run from Seattle to Alaska for the Alaska Steamship Company. Her last visit to Seward was described as “just like attending a funeral.”...

The following is from the journals of the Seward Police Department. Those who have been arrested, summoned or issued citations are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. Feb. 24 22:45 - Individual reported that he lost his wallet...

The Alaska Marine Highway System’s versatile 296-foot Marine Ferry Tustumena, sometimes called the “Trusty Tusty,” will remain at the Seward shipyard until June, almost two months longer than...

Sue Lang of Seward leads a training session about water safety information booths, during the Coast Guard Auxiliary summit held Feb. 22-24 in Anchorage. Lang, state chair for National Safe Boating...

The following is from the journals of the Seward Police Department Feb. 14 00:16 - 911 misdial. 00:23 - Officer investigated a car parked in the middle of the road at Subway. Subject was lost and trying to get her GPS to work. 05:58 - Parking citatio...

The following is from the journals of the Seward Police Department Feb. 11 16:46 - Individual reported that power was out to half her house on Dimond. 17:50 - Small black plastic case with pepper spray found outside old library building on Fifth. 18:...

The Noble International Discoverer languishes, lashed to the main dock at the Alaska Railroad Cruise Ship Terminal on Port Avenue. A victim of circumstance, the craft has been delayed along its...