Sandpoint Lions Club cancels July 4 festivities
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The Sandpoint Lions Club announced May 13 that it would regretfully have to cancel its annual Fourth of July festivities in Sandpoint due to the …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The Sandpoint Lions Club announced May 13 that it would regretfully have to cancel its annual Fourth of July festivities in Sandpoint due to the …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The East Bonner County Library District Board of Trustees voted May 11 to eliminate late fees for overdue materials.
Library officials said that the board …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The Sandpoint Farmers’ Market is back, with a few changes.
“It’s going to be a modified market,” Market Manager Kelli Burt told the Reader.…
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Sagle resident Scott Herndon, who mounted an unsuccessful bid for Idaho Senate in 2018 and has since been in the forefront of a number of …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Every graduation ceremony is memorable, but, for the senior class of 2020, their big day will go down in history as the first to adapt …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The online music retail industry is seeing a surge in sales, thanks in large part to the abundance of free time many are experiencing amid …
By Kelly Price
Reader Contributor
Once I got stuck at the top of the Ferris wheel. There were unexplained mechanical difficulties that brought about an unannounced hour-long sabbatical from Earth …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Like most people, the period of time since March has been, well, let’s say illuminating for me and mine. I have learned a lot of …
By Reader Staff
The Sandpoint Parks and Recreation Department on May 2 reopened the public outdoor shooting range on Baldy Mountain Road.
Department officials said they are instituting additional procedures …
By Reader Staff
Organizers for the annual Montana Shakespeare in the Parks announced May 4 that the 2020 show date has been canceled.
“We are disappointed, but we fully understand …
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