Teen Tech Week, March 7-13

Date: 3-4-10 Contact: Amy Carney, Seward Community Library, 224-4010
Learn Create Share @ Your Library® during Teen Tech Week 2010
Local teens will be tuning in at the library as Seward Community Library celebrates the third annual Teen Tech Week March 7-13, 2010. They join thousands of other libraries and schools across the [...]

New Climate Change Information Tool Available to Alaskans

The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy is pleased to announce a
new climate information tool available to Alaskans. Communities now have
access to climate change data focused on their own backyards, thanks to a
community charts tool created by the Scenarios Network for Alaska Planning
(SNAP) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
More than 350 places in Alaska [...]

weather affecting the snowpack

Many of our lives were put on hold late friday afternoon as mother nature shared with us our first big storm of the winter season. An avalanche crossed the Seward Highway near Mile 21.5 and closing the highway for about 24hrs.
This 970mb low tracked into pws and the kenai mountains producing 19” of sweet [...]

Council favors reopening lease with Seward Ship’s Drydock

By Heidi Zemach for SCN
The Seward City Council recently told City Manager Phillip Oates to proceed with negotiations with Seward Ship’s Drydock, Inc to determine specific capital improvements that the shipyard wants to make, and whether they are appropriate for a lease extension beyond its current 2029 expiration. The shipyards managers are seeking assurance that [...]

Libraries Are Information Repositories

This piece, written by Greg Hill is Fairbanks North Star Borough Library Director, ran in the Sunday edition of the FDNM. (Fairbanks Daily New Minor)
OPINION ARTICLE
By Greg Hill, FNSB Library Services Director, 459-1027
Last Sunday’s Anchorage Daily News ran a front page article, the online version is titled “Are Local Libraries In Process of Checking out?”, [...]

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 – [...]

Sea Life Center taps clean, plentiful energy source

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News
Ressurecton Bay beyond ASLC

Most of us probably wouldn’t imagine the seawater in Resurrection Bay to be warm. Not warm enough to heat local buildings during the cold winters. But we would be wrong. In fact, Resurrection Bay is a wonderful source of energy that stores large amounts of solar [...]

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 [...]

Seward Utility Needs to Sell

What is the City of Seward doing in the electrical business? Well, as an enterprise fund it was once making good money at the expense of inflated electrical rates to its residents and businesses. However now the infrastructure is in great need of repairs to the questionable tune of $24 million.
While the utility [...]

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 [...]

RCA VOTES TO ADOPT NET METERING REGULATIONS

At a public meeting held on October 14, 2009, the Regulatory Commission of Alaska (Commission) voted to adopt new regulations establishing net metering requirements for economically regulated utilities.
Net metering serves as an important incentive for consumer investment in renewable energy generation. It allows a customer of an economically regulated utility to interconnect eligible [...]

Seattle to Unimak Island by foot and raft slideshow

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 [...]

Kill-a-Watt available at the Library

The U.S Department of Energy reports that 20% of our electric bills come from items that are left plugged in when they are not in use, or items that are in standby mode. With the Kill A Watt P4400 we can monitor the energy eaters in our homes and cut down our electric bills at [...]

Buisiness is Booming at AVTEC

By Heidi Zemach, for the Seward City News
Students at the Alaska Vocational Technology Education Center (AVTEC) are getting in the groove, becoming used to their classroom routines and their new Seward community. Meanwhile the administration is winding up a momentous effort to prepare for an inspection visit Sept 21-24 by a five-member panel from the [...]

Glacier Quilt Winner!

The Glacier Quilt raffle ended on Wednesday August 19, 2009 at the Seward Community Library. Tickets were being checked in and put into a box for stirring while supporters were requesting more tickets! Thank you to everyone that supported this raffle with purchasing $1 (one dollar) tickets for the Glacier Quilt.
The ticket was [...]

Alaska Harbor Observing Network

ASLC and UAA (Dr. Orson Smith, Chair of the civil Engineering Department) were funded through the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) to develop and deploy the prototype sensor infrastructure for what we hope will become the Alaska Harbor Observing Network (AHON). Last week we completed installation of the prototype system at the Seward harbor breakwater [...]

Energy and Seward

There is still a Preliminary Permit Application on file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a coal-fired power plant in Seward held by Tiqun Energy which is owned by Marc Marlow and Randy Hobbs. The RR did deny the developers proposed lease of RR land for this project several years ago after hearing the [...]

Do we want to be under surveillance?

Resolution 2009-051 in the June 22 council packet is accepting 350,000.00 from Homeland Security to expand the security camera system in Seward. We currently have security cameras in the small boat harbor due to vandalism that has occurred there, but do we really need more? I strongly urge the city council to [...]

New features and upgrades

It’s an exciting time for SCN these days. Reader traffic has been strong, 10,006 visits this month, Analytics-06-15-09-sewardcitynews.com. We have made some small improvements and updates to the site over the last two weeks; some of which may turn out to be quite powerful.
New Search- The search capability has been revamped and now returns great [...]

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