Advisory question on fairgrounds RV park abandoned
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Bonner County commissioners entered a special meeting Monday, March 27 with two items on the agenda — first, to determine the language for an advisory …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Bonner County commissioners entered a special meeting Monday, March 27 with two items on the agenda — first, to determine the language for an advisory …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
About 100 area residents turned out to the Sandpoint library for a town hall hosted March 20 by the Reader, where they took in …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Bonner County commissioners on March 21 reversed an earlier decision to move forward with a highly contentious boundary line adjustment between the Bonner County Fairgrounds …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
If it seems like there hasn’t been much news coming out of the proposed silicon smelter in Newport, Wash., it’s because the project made a …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Since the news broke March 17 that Bonner General Health would suspend labor and delivery services effective May 19, the story has torn not only …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
City Hall will again address the potential redevelopment of a portion of U.S. Highway 2 as it moves east and west through Sandpoint, this time …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It was another week of procedural sparring and high-tension discussion at the regular business meeting March 7 of the Bonner County Board of Commissioners — …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Crews with local dock builder C.E. Kramer started work Feb. 20 at the War Memorial Field waterfront, staging equipment and preparing to get underway on …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
All but one of the action items at the Feb. 21 Bonner County commissioners’ meeting drew a unanimous vote in favor. That lone split vote …
Reader Staff
The high-profile U.S. Highway 2 redevelopment concept — often referred to as “the Couplet” — will go before the City Council as an informational workshop Wednesday, March 15, …
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