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

Seward’s Obihiro Mural Committee hashes out details of the up-coming project. The City of Seward is presenting a mural to its sister city, Obihiro, Japan. The project involves taking a design and...

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...

The Seward Community Band perform a free concert at the Liberty Theatre on Saturday. The theme of the performance was “Spring has Sprung” and coincided well with the fine afternoon...

Panels for the mural that will adorn the south side of the Seward Community Library Museum got several coats of paint closer to completion last weekend as over 40 volunteers gathered, paintbrush in...

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...

When I walked into Seward High School auditorium for Friday night’s premier of “Duck Hunter Shoots Angel,” I saw a strange sight that stirred up memories of taking the subway to school in the...

Artists work on the mural that will grace the south wall of the new Seward Community Library Museum this spring. Nicole Feemster and her assistant Tekla Seavey can place a few of the 4- x 10-foot...

Ken Faust didn’t always intend on pursuing theater as a career. His first exposure to acting came in high school productions headed by Seward drama teacher Dan Marshall. But Faust pinpoints a...

Port City Players rehearse for the opening of their newest mainstage production, “Duck Hunter Shoots Angel,” by Mitch Albom, at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15 at the Seward High School Theatre. The play...

Laurel Downing Bill, an Anchorage writer and historian with deep family roots in Alaska, visited Seward recently. She walked the streets that her mother Hazel Isobel, her aunt Hope Alisabeth and...

The Alaska State Council on the Arts, on behalf of the State of Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums is requesting qualifications from artists for interior and/or exterior artwork to be...

The Seward High School Choir, also known as Seahawk’s Voice, perform at the Holiday Concert. From left; Kim Leavitt, Hayden Beard, Susie Alvarez, Emily Crain and Sherelle Holmes. The Seward...

Two Seward teenagers who play violin, Meret Beutler, a sophomore with the IDEA Seward home-school program and Ryan Maxwell, a junior who was with the Connections Seward home-school program until a...

Generally, I like books written by chicks, but I hardly read them preferring less depressing fare like the Google news aggregator. Or Facebook. Maybe it’s not a question of preference but a...

It was a night not like most any other as the crowd took their seats at the K.M. Rae Building a Nov. 7. It wasn’t even dark and stormy as I stood there with grass-stains on my jeans, corn cob pipe...

The Meg Mackey Band will play in concert at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 25 in the Seward High School Theater. Mackey played her first Seward Music and Arts Festival last year and was an instant hit with fans. After missing a booking onstage this year...

The Arctic Rose Gallery in Anchorage selected Dot Bardarson’s watercolor “Raven Perch” for its first annual Raven Show poster. Bardarson signed the posters at the art opening on Friday at the...

The Seward Music and Arts Festival over the weekend delighted Sewardites and visitors with music, dancing, mural painting, arts and dining....

The Seward Music and Arts Festival is set for this weekend with musicians and performers from all over the state along with artisan booths and food vendors. The festival begins this year on Friday,...

The annual Seward Music and Arts Festival will fill the Alaska Railroad Cruise Ship Terminal Sept. 28-30 with delights for all the senses and all ages. The music and performances are non-stop for...

The Alaska Watercolor Juried Exhibit has selected two paintings by Dot Bardarson for its 38th annual show. This year the show will be hung at Stephan’s Fine Art at the Capt. Cook Hotel. The opening...

Seward was treated to the premier touring big band for the United States Army, the Jazz Ambassadors on Monday night. The 19-member ensemble, formed in 1969, has received great acclaim both at home...

One of the finest big bands in the world today, the Jazz Ambassadors of Washington, D.C., tours thousands of miles each year to promote patriotism and good will for the U.S. Army through free public...

Seward artists continue to refine murals around town....

Lindsey von Borstel, Seward High graduate, is holding her bachelor of fine arts thesis exhibition Sept. 3-14. The show, titled “Aquafied,” will be at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where von...