Small Schools Hang on

By Heidi Zemach
Moose Pass School teacher Jeffrey Clay sits cross-legged and relaxed in his unlit classroom Monday afternoon, reading aloud from the C. S. Lewis classic The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. The students in grades K-6, self-dubbed the “Rock Stars,” the “Bobble Heads,” and the “Olympians,” sit quietly listening and pencil-drawing at three [...]

Tickets still available for cruise this Saturday – don’t miss out!

Start your Labor Day weekend with a Dinner Cruise to Fox Island!
Support Volunteer Firefighters

$50 donation for Cruise & Dinner

Kenai Fjords Sightseeing Cruise to Fox Island
Prime Rib & Salmon Dinner on Fox Island
No Host Bar – Alaskan Beer & Wine
Outcry & Silent Auctions* *Credit cards accepted

Bring your piggy bank – all proceeds go directly [...]

Dinner Cruise to Fox Island – Labor Day Weekend

Start your Labor Day weekend with a Dinner Cruise to Fox Island!
Support Volunteer Firefighters

$50 donation for Cruise & Dinner

Kenai Fjords Sightseeing Cruise to Fox Island
Prime Rib & Salmon Dinner on Fox Island
No Host Bar – Alaskan Beer & Wine
Outcry & Silent Auctions* *Credit cards accepted

Bring your piggy bank [...]

Race for new library/museum like a Mt. Marathon climb

Important part of the trail coming up at Tuesday’s meeting…
By Mary Tougas, Co-Vice Chair of the Seward Community Library Museum (SCLM) Building Committee
Next weekend thousands of people will pour into Seward looking for a July 4 experience that they cannot find anywhere else in Alaska. In the 83 years people have been running and [...]

Flood Risk Maps Raise Eyebrows, Hackles

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News
The Federal Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) for the Kenai Peninsula Borough that indicate current regulatory floodplain areas in the Seward/Bear Creek vicinity have been revised for the first time in 29 years. When adopted following a public review period, they will be used by lending institutions and insurance [...]

Seward Remapping – Interactive Parcel Viewer

The Borough has set up a webpage for citizens both inside and outside City Limits to view if their property is ‘in’ or ‘out’ of the proposed floodplain updates to the FEMA Floodplain Maps (FIRMS). Everyone should pay special attention to the updates to these maps.
http://mapserver.borough.kenai.ak.us/sewardflood/
FEMA will be coming to Seward to [...]

Schools Show Off Talent Under Shadow of Budget Cuts

(By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)
The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District spent the day meeting in work sessions Seward Monday, and then heard from local educators and community members at its only board meeting here in the evening. The meeting was dominated by presentations about Seward Middle School and High School and the creative [...]

KENAI AREA BURN SUSPENSION IN PLACE

Due to high winds and no precipitation in the weather forecast for the Kenai Peninsula, open burning has been suspended by the Alaska Division of Forestry until further notice. Burning in burn barrels is also suspended at this time. Individuals should check any fires they have lit in the past month to ensure that they [...]

Flood Board Meeting Civil But Emotional

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News

(Photo: DNR’s Christina Nahorney, Scott Ogen, Mayor Carey, DNR’s Clark Cox)

Property owners from the Seward/Bear Creek Flood Service area sparred with Department of Natural Resources representatives and Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Dave Carey Monday April 19. The evening question-and-answer session highlighted the SBCFSA board meeting at SeaView Plaza. Although [...]

School District funding level concerns Seward rep

(By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)
Sue McClure, who is serving her first term on the assembly as Seward’s representative, found Tuesday night’s meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly, in which funding for the school district budget was discussed, both disheartening, and fascinating. As a retired career teacher herself, McClure came to the meeting [...]

Borough Mayor’s Report to the Assembly

Dave Carey, KPB Mayor
The month of February included preparation for presentation of the 2011 Borough Budget, as well as the myriad of activities throughout the Borough as we prepare for the upcoming construction season and the fiscal activities necessary to provide needed and required services to the resident taxpayers and visitors.
The economic situation of the [...]

Thanks to the Community on Nelli Juan Rescue

The Bear Creek Volunteer Fire Department would like to extend a thank you to the community members of Seward for their assistance with Search and Rescue efforts over the weekend of February 5th 2010. There was a huge outpouring of contributions from the community.
In particular we would like to thank some of the individuals that [...]

Kenai Watershed Forum – First Installment: Who We Are & What We Do

The Kenai Watershed Forum (KWF) is a local 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to maintaining the health of the watersheds on the Kenai Peninsula. KWF is recognized as the regional watershed organization of the Kenai Peninsula, successfully identifying and addressing the needs of the region by providing high quality education, restoration, and research programs. KWF’s mission is [...]

Successful Donations for Pick.Click.Give

In an update from the PFD Charitable Contributions Program, www.PickClickGive.org, they report the following:
“The number of people who have successfully filed a charitable donation to eligible Alaska nonprofits through the PFD Charitable Contributions Program, also known as Pick Click Give., has shot up in the hours since the State reported that the technical problems had [...]

Candy Cane Splash Meet on Saturday Dec 12th

Seward Tsunami’s are hard at work in the pool. Starting the swimming season in November, Tsunami’s are having their second annual swim meet this Saturday, December 12th, at the Seward pool.
Forty five Tsunami’s plus swimmers from around the Peninsula will be swimming in the USA Swimming sanctioned meet. Called the Candy Cane Splash, swimmers warm [...]

Borough Assembly Report

From Sue McClure
I’m back from the 11-10 Assembly meeting. Among items of local interest:
We heard the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s Quarterly report, presented by the School Board President and the Superintendent. Enrollment is only 25 students less than last year, which is less of a decline than in previous years. It [...]

Design Discovery Workshops

Design Discovery Workshops
ECI/Hyer Architects will be hosting a series of workshops during the week of Nov 16-20 as we kick off the 35% schematic design phase for the new Seward Community Library Museum.
Join us; we need your feedback as we:

Evaluate design work to date
Create community connections
Share site development opportunities
Examine building form
Measure sustainability

Monday, November 16th
6:00 – [...]

Borough Assembly Report from Sue McClure

I’m back from the 11-10 Assembly meeting. Among items of local interest:
We heard the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s Quarterly report, presented by the School Board President and the Superintendent. Enrollment is only 25 students less than last year, which is less of a decline than in previous years. It should be [...]

Christmas Quilt Raffle

The Library Museum project has a Christmas Quilt Raffle running through December 15, 2009. Tickets are just 1$ each, need not be present to win.
Tickets are available from Karla Oates at Sew-n-Bee Cozy, Vanta Shafer at Cover to Cover Books, Teresa Roy at First National Bank, Mary Tougas at Hertz of Seward, the Seward [...]

Thank You Voters!

The Seward Community Library Museum Committee (SCLMBC) members thank you, the community, for your strong support for the new library museum.

With a very successful Yes vote on proposition 3, the project is now well positioned to seek state and federal funding as well as funding support from private and public foundation grantors. Local commitment [...]

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