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 [...]

Rummage / Bake / Quilt Sale – Aug. 21

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 [...]

Free Stuff!

The Seward Marine Center is in the process of cleaning out the warehouse. Every Wednesday check out the free stack of stuff at 201 Railway Avenue in our driveway or stop by the office on Wednesday afternoons for items that cannot be placed out by the fence.

Little League 2010 Season Kickoff Saturday May 15th 4 PM

It’s almost time to PLAY BALL!
Seward Little League will be starting our 2010 season this Saturday, May 15th with a kickoff celebration.
The event will start at 4 PM at the Little League Field on 4th Avenue
This year, we are sponsoring several divisions in both baseball and softball.
Divisions for this year are….
Boys/Girls T-Ball (Ages 5-7)
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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 [...]

March 2010 Weather Summary

Temperature and precipitation in Seward were near the long-term average for the month of March. As measured at the Seward airport weather station, March’s average temperature in Kenai Fjords NP was 31.0 degrees F (1.0 degrees F below the 30-year March average temperature). Total rainfall (and melted snow) for February was 3.86 inches, 0.28 inches [...]

2010 Calendars on Sale!

There are still a few 2010 Seward community calendars remaining. Get yours while the year is still young. Calendars are for sale for $7 (originally $10, saving $1 for each month gone by)–to purchase contact Fritz Klasner (fklasner@gmail.com, 224-4664).
Featuring photographs submitted by community members, advertisements for local businesses, and listing birthdays, anniversaries, and events in the community; the [...]

The Green Beet: The 3/50 Project

While vacationing last month, I came across an article in a local newspaper that introduced me to a grassroots campaign launched early last year named The 3/50 Project, an innovative call to strengthen your local economy by shopping at brick and mortar businesses in your area. While The Green Beet typically focuses on a different [...]

$500 reward for lost best friend (australian shepherd)

Please help us find our lost australian shepherd, KC-Girl. She is gray body, black/white/copper face. Lost 1/1/2010 Mile 7 Swd Highway. Bald spot on neck from post-op collar. We REALLY really miss her. $500 reward. Please call 224-3504.

December 2009 Weather Summary

December was certainly an interesting month with some wonderful snow in town early in the month followed by a lengthy warm spell. As measured at the Seward airport weather station, December temperature in Kenai Fjords NP was average—28.1 degrees F (equal to the 30-year December average temperature). Total rainfall (or melted snow) for October was [...]

Got Calendar?

The 2010 Seward community calendars have arrived. Calendars are for sale for $10 at the Library or by contacting Fritz Klasner (fklasner@gmail.com, 224-4664). Featuring photographs submitted by community members, advertisements for local businesses, and listing birthdays, anniversaries, and events in the community; the calendar is the perfect wall companion to the online SCN calendar.
Calendar proceeds are [...]

Community Calendars are here!

The 2010 Seward community calendars have arrived. Advance orders have been distributed (please contact us if you’ve not received your’s). Calendars are for sale for $10 at the Library or by contacting Fritz Klasner (fklasner@gmail.com, 224-4664). Featuring photographs submitted by community members, advertisements for local businesses, and listing birthdays, anniversaries, and events in the community; [...]

Reward 4 B/W Aussie

REWARD: Our black & white Austrailian Shepherd dog ran away on New Year’s Eve due to Fireworks at Mile 7 area. She’s a GREAT dog. Please call to tell us you took her in to protect her. REWARD for her safe return; we really miss her. She has a bald spot on her neck/shoulders due [...]

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 [...]

Homer Library Enhances Quality of Life

Sept. 23, 2009
Dear Editor,
I understand that Seward voters will be voting on October 6 on a bond proposal and advisory sales tax measure to fund the proposed new library and museum building. Whether those pass or fail is up to your voters and their priorities, but I thought I might pass on some experience [...]

Pavilion Plus PARKS Picnic Potluck Sun 7.19

All are invited to the community potluck picnic Sunday, July 19 at 6 pm at the Branson Pavilion at the end of Adams Street, just off Ballaine Blvd. Sunday, July 19 6 pm. Potluck Picnic to celebrate the Branson Pavilion ribbon cutting and the PARKS playground one year anniversary. SPRD will provide the main course, [...]

Garage Salers Garage Sale!

Saturday, July 11 starting at 10. Antiques, collectibles, oddities, art, some furniture, and of course some useful stuff too. Too much to name! 1700 and 1701 Chiswell. Take Phoenix off of 3rd. Go past the horse corral and take the 4th dirt road on the left, Barwell. Percentage of Marianna’s garage sale will be donated [...]

Rasmuson Foundation Matches Local Giving
Through the receiving of local donations the Seward Community Foundation is pleased to announce that it has met its June 30th goal of reaching its second challenge match from the Rasmuson Foundation. By reaching the goal of $25,000 SCF will be awarded a 2:1 match for the Seward Community Fund. [...]

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