Flood Hazard District Continues but Flood Plain Task Force Ends

(Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Flood Plain Task Force met for the very last time March 10 at Seward City Hall before being dissolved by the borough. They turned over future flood work to the Seward Bear Creek Flood Board. A divided task force voted 4-2 to keep Ordinance 2009-09 in [...]

City Proclaims Seward Alaska’s Wellness Capital

(Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)
The Seward City Council unanimously passed a resolution Monday March 8, proclaiming the City of Seward as the “Wellness Capital of Alaska.” Mayor Willard Dunham and council member Tom Smith were absent. The resolution also authorizes City Manager Phillip Oates to seek state and federal recognition under that title, and [...]

Council vote moves fluoridation forward

(By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)
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(Will this water contain fluoride in the future?)

A divided city council has moved city water fluoridation a step forward. With a 4-2 vote they passed a resolution at Monday night’s meeting “affirming council support for fluoridation of the public water supply to improve oral health.” The resolution directs the [...]

Seward Bear Creek Flood Board Hears From Borough Mayor

By Heidi Zemach for SCN
The Seward//Bear Creek Flood Service Area Board voted Monday Feb. 16 to spend $84,000 of its FY2011 budget on a new project at the flood-prone Salmon Creek Road/Nash Road intersection, pending approval by the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly. The board already has been promised a matching grant of $60,000 from the [...]

Council rejects fee increases on harbor properties, maintains $5 parking fees

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News
At Monday’s regular meeting the Seward City Council discussed, but rejected for the time being a proposal instituting a two-percent increase in fees on the city’s rental properties. The city’s 37 property leases along the harbor are due for their mandatory five-year reappraisal, where a Fair Market Value is [...]

City Council Addresses Coal Issues

(Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)

Coal dominated the Seward City Council meeting Monday, Jan 25th, as nearby, coal-filled trains pulled up to the Seward waterfront coal transfer facility, steadily growing a 90,000 ton-plus coal pile as it was loaded onto a waiting ship. The council unanimously agreed to undertake a community-wide ambient air [...]

Gubernatorial Candidate Bill Walker Coming to Seward

Candidate for Governor, Bill Walker, will be in Seward Tuesday, February 9th. He will be at the Breeze Inn from 9am-11:30am talking with people in the community. All are invited to this casual gathering to meet Bill, hear about his vision for the state, and let Bill know your questions and concerns. For more information email info@billwalkerforgovernor.com or [...]

LIO Amplifies Local Voices

(Heidi Zemach, for the Seward City News)
The legislative information office in the SeaView Plaza Building on Railway Avenue was eerily quiet on Tuesday morning, Jan 19, the first day of the state legislature’s 2010 session. But quite a lot of business will be taking place there in the 90 days ahead, says Marianna Keil, Seward’s [...]

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 [...]

Alaska Logistics to expand Seward operation

(By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)
The Seward City Council has agreed to have City Manager Phillip Oates negotiate a lease with Alaska Logistics, LLC, to construct a large vessel maintenance, repair and storage enclosure at the Seward Marine Industrial Center in support of their Western Alaska Barge Service. Alaska Logistics has operated a barge service [...]

City Council approves two-year budget resolution and tariffs that businesses say will squeeze them more

(Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)
Like it or not, whether you own a small or large business, or you’re just a resident Joe or Jane who works for someone else, city fees are going up everywhere. But rest assured, it looks like the city won’t be cutting any of its staff, or lowering the level [...]

It’s Tails, Linda Wins!

Linda Amberg is Sworn in

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News
A simple coin toss, followed two deadlocked 3-3 city council secret ballot votes, decided who would be appointed for the one-year term on the Seward City Council October 26. In that instant, Linda Amberg, a local insurance company owner, broker, and former city council member [...]

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 [...]

THE LEGACY OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

The movie PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS starring Will Smith is what FREEDOM is all about. America is what dreams are made of. As my mom put it “The skies the limit; how hard are you willing to work for it.” Many of you and including myself have hit rock-bottom more than once in life. Sometimes having [...]

Senator Gary Stevens Coming to Seward

What’s up, Seward?
Please join me for an informal discussion about current events, projects, and life in Seward. I’d also like to report to you on the happenings in our state legislature, and how I can better serve Seward during the legislative session in Juneau. I’d like to hear from you!
WHEN: Saturday, October 17, 2009, from [...]

Don’t forget- Today is voting day

Your vote can be cast downtown at city hall today until 8pm.

It Takes 2 YES YES Votes to Support the Library Museum

Since 2005, the Seward Community Library Building Committee (SCLMBC) has worked diligently on behalf of the community to bring a new co-located library museum facility to reality. Their efforts have been mindful of what is essential for our community’s future education, information and historic preservation needs and the need for this new facility be one [...]

In Support of the Seward community Library Museum

By Jonathan Sewall & Bev Dunham.
We are in support of the Seward community Library Museum project and encourage the support of voters for Advisory Proposition 2 and Bond Prop. 3 on the October 6 city ballot that will make it possible. That said, a little personal history leading to that support:
Jonathan: My family came to [...]

Hunter Doan in DC

“Hunter Doan collected questions from his classmates at Seward Middle School in Seward, Alaska and took those questions to Washington DC and interviewed Alaska’s US Senators Murkowski and Begich. This is a video of Hunter interviewing Senator Murkowski in her hideaway under the US Capital.”

Hunter Doan in DC from russ maddox on Vimeo.

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