Dinner Cruise to Fox Island – Labor Day Weekend

Start your Labor Day weekend with a Dinner Cruise to Fox Island!
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$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 [...]

Seaman’s Mission: Home Away From Home

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News

Those who work at sea have a welcoming place to relax, escape the ship, and catch up with their families when they arrive in Seward for their cruises’ turnaround. The Seward Seaman’s Mission, at 3001 Third Avenue, has for decades opened its doors to all cruise ship, barge and [...]

Little Sailing Tugboat with big vision

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News
A group of friendly French Corsican adventurers arrived in Seward recently aboard their unique working tugboat Le Menguier or “The Mango.” They had had recycled and transformed the robust little French naval tugboat, built in 1968, into an alternative boat with sails, solar panels, LED lights, and later, environmentally-friendly [...]

Railroad to Begin Herbicide Spraying After Three Decades

By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News

The Alaska Railroad Corporation has received a permit from state regulators to spray the herbicide AquaMaster (key ingredient Glyphosate) and Agri-Dex, a substance to help spread it, along 30 miles of track between Seward and Indian. The railroad has not used chemical weed control for the past 26 [...]

First Cruise Ship Marks another Tourist Season

(By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)
Under gloomy weather, and intermittent rain, the summer tourist season in Seward officially began Sunday with the arrival of the first massive cruise ship, the Ryndam Holland America. It was transporting about 1200 passengers to Vancouver, with stopovers in Haines, Juneau, and Ketchikan.
This summer 57 ships will dock in [...]

Dramatic Rescue on Godwin Glacier

(By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)
A pilot, a dog musher, and seven sled dogs were rescued unharmed from a mountain on Godwin Glacier late Saturday morning by the U.S. Coast Guard, after the helicopter they were arriving in flipped over in deep snow and white-out conditions. Pollux Aviation pilot Eric Ridington, of Wasilla, was [...]

April 2010 Weather Summary

Temperature and precipitation in Seward were near the long-term average for the month of April. As measured at the Seward airport weather station, April’s average temperature in Kenai Fjords NP was 37.5 degrees F (1.1 degrees F below the 30-year average April temperature). Total rainfall (and melted snow) for April was 5.34 inches, 0.63 inches [...]

A Resurrection Day to Remember

(By Heidi Zemach for Seward City News)

What an awesome day Easter Sunday was. My family and I braved snow squalls and bouncy seas to tour Resurrection Bay, hoping to witness the California Gray whales as they begin their annual migration north to the Bering Sea. My family was among 30 passengers traveling on Major Marine [...]

Experts Plan to Fight Invasive Marine Species

(By Heidi Zemach, for Seward City News)
Marine invaders such as Chinese mitten crabs, European green crabs and the elusive, little understood tunicates, may not have arrived in Alaska yet in significant numbers yet-but they’re on the move. That was the main message of a vast variety of experts on invasive species who gathered at the [...]

Railroad plans include new restroom, dredging, and undisclosed coal facility improvements

(By Heidi Zemach for SCN)
The Alaska Railroad held an open house at the Breeze Inn in Seward Friday, Feb 19. Alaska Railroad Chief Engineer and Vice President of Engineering Tom Brooks gave an update of the railroad’s capital project program plans for the upcoming year at the Seward Chamber of Commerce, Conference and Visitor’s Bureau [...]

Chamber Unveils Promo Video

We’re pleased to announce the roll-out of a new Seward video. Positioned on our homepage for maximum exposure, the video highlights Seward’s quality of life – making it appealing to visitors and individuals/businesses looking to relocate. The piece is a little less than 3 minutes, and is being streamed in high definition. [...]

The Green Beet: Design with recycle in mind

By Jen Ransom for Seward City News
My husband and I recently took a whirlwind trip to visit some friends down in Los Angeles. Leaving the little one at my parent’s Oregon home, we flew down to visit America’s sunny city during the worst rainstorm LA had seen in probably 15 years.
Skipping a trip to the beach, [...]

The Green Beet: Eco-Travel Action Plan

By Jen Ransom for Seward City News
During the next few months many Alaskans escape the dark and cold for warmer weather and much-needed vacations. But vacation time doesn’t need to be a vacation from green living. Just a little bit of preparation, a few changes in mindset and some innovative thinking can make a vacation [...]

Good News and Bad for Seward Tourism

(By Heidi Zemach, for SCN)
Three-thousand independent travelers on the website TripAdvisor have given Seward top billing as a tourist destination for 2010. TripAdvisor, an Internet website much used for vacation planning, announced Wednesday, Dec 9 that its yearly travel trends survey of U.S. travelers had chosen Seward first among its top five U.S. Destinations for [...]

Yeosu (beautiful Yeosu): Seward’s Sister City in South Korea

By: Ian M. Dutton, President & CEO, Alaska SeaLife Center
I just had the pleasure of spending two days in Yeosu, Seward’s sister city in South Korea. Yeosu is located on the south coast of Korea, about 45 mins flight south of Seoul – see http://www.yeosu.go.kr/en/. My visit coincided with a field trip by the evaluation [...]

Kenai Krewsers in Australia

As the roadie/groupie for Seward’s rowing club competing in the World Masters Games in Sydney, I will send along some pics.
Brandon Anderson

Seattle to Unimak Island by foot and raft slideshow

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 [...]

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 [...]

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