Heidi Zemach

Mimi and John Park, who run Peking Restaurant in downtown Seward, were assaulted by a young man who walked into their restaurant Monday. Battered and bruised, they opened the restaurant again the very next day.

A disturbance caused by prisoners at Spring Creek Correctional Center, Alaska's maximum-security prison in Seward was not a riot, according to an Alaska Department of Corrections spokesperson.

A local production of Eve Ensler's controversial hit play opens Friday and extends through the weekend of Aug. 14 at Seward's Resurrection Arts Coffee shop.

After a 26-year hiatus -- caused in part by widespread public opposition -- Alaska Railroad Corp. will return to chemical weed control along tracks from Indian to Seward.

One of Seward's top employers is out of sight, out of mind, and for security reasons, its administrators like it to remain that way.