CREAMER’S FIELD – Five scientists have padded their way on snowshoes into the middle of this frozen swamp in Fairbanks. They are here to measure the pillowy, perfect snowpack that has fallen here since last October. Read moreDozens descend upon Alaska to measure snow
Top Story
Scenes Around Town
Want to see your photo posted here? Send your photos to news@sewardjournal.com
Seward High School Class of 2026 Homecoming Float. Photo by Brittany Swanson.
News
Alaska State Troopers performed two searches of residences in Seward the morning of February 22 re-sulting in the arrest of three individuals on felony charges.
Next Monday, March 27, as part of its consent agenda, the City Council is set to approve Resolution 2023-038, accepting the resignation of City Clerk Brenda Ballou and setting the terms for her departure from city employment. Notice of Ballou’s resignation was circulated from the clerk’s off…
Last Monday, at the March 13 meeting of the City Council, City Planning Assistant Selena Soto demonstrated new interactive maps of the city cemetery, built from all available data and now online for public use through the city’s website. The culmination of decades of effort by various city e…
The poor road conditions today have made it unsafe for our courier to deliver the Journal today. It should be at our regular distribution points on Thursday.
In an effort to renew its commitment to risk reduction, the Seward Fire Department has organized a Community Risk Reduction Unit, consisting of the department’s current building official, in charge of building permits and inspection of all new construction and remodels requiring city permits…
Around Town
Make your easter baskets special with a personally autographed copy of Vickie L. Detert's newly published book, “S P Ellingbee” Saturday, April 1 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Gateway Hotel.
Tuesday, March 28, 5:30-7 p.m. Seward Properties and Residential Mortgages, LLC will hold a home buying workshop at the Seward Community Library. The guest speaker will be Sr. Loan Originator Kristin Harding with Residential Mortgages.
Seward High School will host an Easter Egg Hunt at the school on Saturday, April 8. Times are infants 11-11:15 a.m., 5–8-year-olds 11:15-11:30 a.m., and 9 and up 11:30-11:45 a.m. The event is scheduled to be held on the football field but will be moved into the gymnasium in the event of incl…
Overnight parking is prohibited on Fourth and Fifth avenues between Adams Street and Railway Avenue and on Third Avenue between Monroe and Railway on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for street cleaning. The east side of the road will be done on Tuesdays and the west side on Wednesdays.
Sports/Outdoors
The Lost Lake Run Lottery opens April 1 at 6 a.m. The lottery will be open through midnight April 4. The Lost Lake Run will be held Saturday August 26. The race entry fee is a non-refundable and non-transferable. Registration is available at https://lostlakerun907.wpengine.com. Please be cer…
On Saturday, the Seward Nordic Ski Club (SNSC) will celebrate a new 50-year special land use permit (SLUP) to extend its use of the 95-acre Mile 12 Ski Divide Area. The culmination of three years’ work by SNSC Board Member Linda Lasota, the club’s unprecedented agreement with the Alaska Depa…
The Seward State Parks Citizen Advisory Board, along with the Kachemak Bay State Park and the Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Boards, are seeking volunteers for the respective boards.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game Division of Sport Fish (Division) is accepting public comment through 5 p.m. January 31, 2023, on its 2023 Statewide Stocking Plan for Sport Fisheries.
On Dec. 10, swimmers from all over the peninsula converged on Seward for the annual Tsunami Swim Club Candy Cane Splash invitational swim meet. 130 kids of all ages, 68 of whom were Tsunami members, competed in swimming events ranging from backstroke to breaststroke and every style in betwee…
Schools
On Tuesday, concerned Sewardites packed the local Legislative Information Office (LIO) as the Alaska House of Representatives Education Committee heard testimony from educators, students, and parents across the state on House Bill 65, which would increase the Base Student Allocation (BSA) fo…
Did you graduate from Seward High School between the years 1924-1999?
The Seward High School swimming pool, also home to the Seward Tsunami Swim Club, is facing closure along with a number of pools and extracurricular activities throughout the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (KPBSD). At issue are state education funding shortfalls that are threatening …
Births
Jeff Dillon and Laura Sturtz are pleased to announce the birth of triplets Aurora Kathleen, Heath Spencer and Alder Clark Sturtz-Dillon, born Aug. 7 at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. At birth, Aurora and Heath each weighed 5 pounds and Alder weighed 4 pounds. The triplets are…
Obituaries
Alan Lee Haskins, 56, of Seward, passed away on March 7, 2023, after an ongoing battle with heart failure. He was born December 17, 1966, in t…
Features
CREAMER’S FIELD – Five scientists have padded their way on snowshoes into the middle of this frozen swamp in Fairbanks. They are here to measure the pillowy, perfect snowpack that has fallen here since last October.
In spring of 1946, five men stationed at the Scotch Cap lighthouse had reasons to be happy. World War II was over. They had survived. Their lonely Coast Guard assignment on Unimak Is-land would be over in a few months.
Lonely northern cliffs from which scientists have pulled the bones of Alaska dinosaurs also hold the fossilized remains of birds.
Opinion
Representatives from Homer Electric Association (HEA) have logged many hours in Seward recently, me included. It has been our pleasure and pri…
For those of you that will be voting to sell or retain Seward’s electric utility, here are a few of my thoughts and observations. I feel somew…
Commented
Sorry, there are no recent results for popular commented articles.