By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Bonner County commissioners will hear an appeal Thursday, Dec. 9 regarding two short plat applications in the Whiskey Jack area of Kootenai, where developer Tricore …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
When it comes to bureaucratic battles, little else inspires the masses to assemble quite like a land use issue.
One slated to come before the …
By Susan Drumheller
Reader Contributor
In its efforts to tidy up and close loopholes in laws governing subdivisions, Bonner County Planning has left a hole large enough to drive a …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
An application for a zone change in the Hoodoo Valley has seen it all, from denial to approval to a full-on scrapping, as the board …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Since the Bonner County Planning Department solicited comments on the county’s shoreline code in November 2020, the issue had seemingly disappeared from the larger local …
By Susan Drumheller
Reader Contributor
The “Zoom boom” economy has exploded in Bonner County — one of many western outdoorsy communities getting flooded with “amenity migrants” seeking a better and, …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
County commissioners upheld approval of a conditional use permit for an asphalt batch plant at a reconsideration hearing Friday.
The applicants, Interstate Concrete & Asphalt, …
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Winter fun abounds! Check out this week’s goings’ on. The Inaugural Skijoring Event at Chapman Springs Ranch. This Winter Night performances at the Panida, as well as Toyota Ski Free Friday and Winter Trails Day at Schweitzer. See all events in the Community Calendars:
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Videography Jimmy Matlosz is making mini-documentaries, aka “mini docs” of notable Sandpoint persons. So far subjects have included cinematographer Erik Daarstaad, broadcaster Diane Michaels and man-of-many-talents Dan Shook. Latest is photographer Dann Hall. Go watch them at The Idaho Film Company»
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