Full house
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Panida Board of Directors received some homework Feb. 19, as about 25 community members attended its monthly meeting — the most that Chairman Robert Moore reported ever seeing...
Category: News in Brief
Bog Creek Road project approved
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The U.S. Forest Service and Customs and Border Protection announced Jan. 31 that the agencies will move forward with the Bog Creek Road project, located in the Bonners Ferry...
County commissioners reopen public comment
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Board of Bonner County Commissioners has reopened public comment at regular business meetings after a confrontation at its Jan. 28 meeting led to a battery charge and, ultimately,...
Council to address Pine St. sidewalks, invasive aquatic species and non-motorized boat launch
By Reader Staff The Sandpoint City Council intends to address a number of infrastructure and water-related matters Wednesday, Feb. 19 at its regular meeting. Among the items on the agenda is a proposed resolution...
Here We Have Idaho: What’s happening at the Idaho Legislature this week
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Grocery taxes Introduced in the House Revenue and Taxation Committee on Feb. 12, House Bill 494 would increase the grocery tax credit and equalize it for two groups of...
Primaries at a glance
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Idaho’s presidential primary election is less than a month away, and the local and state primary races are on the horizon. As the latter approaches, challengers from both sides...
Smelter project ‘on hold’
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff PacWest Silicon, the Canadian company hoping to build a smelter in Newport, Wash., has broken its prolonged silence with a letter to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. The letter is...
Council puts turf out to bid
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The long-debated resurfacing of War Memorial Field with artificial turf took a small but important step forward Feb. 5, when the Sandpoint City Council unanimously voted to permit city...
‘A bridge too far’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Since late January, Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad has found himself on the receiving end of dozens of phone calls and emails from gun rights proponents angry about what they...
Racist robocaller Scott Rhodes, who targeted the Reader, faces a $13M fine from FCC
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Since 2015, Sandpoint area residents have received anonymous robocalls attacking a range of targets, including Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad and, beginning in September 2018, Sandpoint Reader Publisher Ben Olson....
