By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Shouts and cheers of celebration could be heard from outside Council Chambers as news spread that the Sandpoint City Council voted down a proposed ordinance Aug. 19 that would...
Kids ran and played ball, some turning cartwheels and kicking up bits of cork in the process, on the new War Memorial Field turf Aug. 7, as city dignitaries milled about in preparation of...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff On the Bonner County Planning and Zoning Commission agenda for Aug. 27 is a code change that, if enacted, would streamline and simplify the permitting process for certain types...
By Lyndsie Kiebert and Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As Bonner County’s lawsuit against the city of Sandpoint regarding The Festival at Sandpoint’s weapons policy approaches its first birthday, a second suit — filed by...
By Lorraine H. Marie Reader Columnist East, west or beyond, sooner or later events elsewhere may have a local impact. A recent sampling: The city council of Asheville, N.C., voted 7-0 in favor of...
By Reader Staff The community is mourning a 7-year-old boy who drowned during the afternoon of Aug. 4 in a stretch of Sand Creek between Sandpoint and Ponderay. Emergency crews responded to the...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Reclaim Idaho’s education funding ballot initiative effectively met its end July 30, when the Supreme Court of the United States issued a stay on the group’s lawsuit against state...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The East Bonner County Library District closed its doors and transitioned back to a curbside pick-up system on Aug. 1 due to the rising number of novel coronavirus cases...
By Lyndsie Kiebert and Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Both the state and Panhandle Health District continue their upward trend in new cases of the novel coronavirus, as the latter — which covers Idaho’s five...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Judith Carpenter, the woman accused of shooting and killing 79-year-old Hope resident Shirley Ramey at her Trestle Creek home in April 2017, will see a jury trial in December...
