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

October Three city council members reelected On Oct. 2, three city council members were reelected to their council seats. Jean Bardarson, Marianna Keil and Ristine Casagranda were held the top counts...

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...

With the state electorate being, under most circumstances, a known quantity in terms of partisan affiliation, some regions tend to be less reflexive. The Seward area is, depending on the race, part...

President Obama Gets Our Vote . . . Four years ago the country elected Barack Obama as the country was sliding into the Great Recession caused by a decade of deregulation of the financial industry and tax cuts while fighting two wars in a region...

What are the top three concerns regarding your district and what do you propose should be done about them? Mike Chenault House District 28 • Republican • Nikiski First, I would want to know what the city of Seward’s and the Kenai Peninsula...

The big race on Nov. 6, at least as far as the sign wars in Seward go, is the senate race for the newly formed District N. The two South Anchorage candidates running for the opportunity to represent...

Candidate for the District N state senate seat, Ron Devon will visit with area residents from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 at Resurrect Art. Devon brings smoked salmon to share and will visit with those gathered and talk about his candidacy. He plans...

With 98 percent of Alaska’s precincts counted in Tuesday’s primary election, one ballot measure is too close to call and the other went down in defeat, and party candidates are selected for November’s general election. Only about 10 percent of...

Correction: The comment from Ron Devon, an Anchorage businessman challenging Cathy Giessel for Senate Seat N, should read, “...he said he prefers the bi-partisan caucus’ approach that would give...

A few of years ago, I read an article in “Newsweek” that I thought interesting. The Centers for Disease Control had been noticing a rise in cases of Hepatitis C among middle-aged Americans....