Navigating water quality in Lake Pend Oreille
By Karissa Huntsman
Reader Contributor
As snow is falling on the mountains and hills around Sandpoint, many are looking ahead to the upcoming winter season. Here at the Idaho Conservation …
By Karissa Huntsman
Reader Contributor
As snow is falling on the mountains and hills around Sandpoint, many are looking ahead to the upcoming winter season. Here at the Idaho Conservation …
By Susan Drumheller
Reader Contributor
It’s been out of the public eye for months, but the battle over public access to Lake Pend Oreille at Camp Bay is not over. …
By Susan Drumheller
Reader Contributor
The fate of public access to Camp Bay is once again in the hands of the Bonner County Board of Commissioners.
A district judge has …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
A legal firm representing development company M3 ID Camp Bay, LLC sent a cease and desist letter dated Sept. 2 to lawyers representing Fred and …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Members of the Bonner County Zoning Commission unanimously approved a conditional use permit July 21 for a wastewater treatment facility at the Camp Bay development.…
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
The Bonner County Zoning Commission will review an application for a conditional use permit from M3 Idaho Camp Bay, LLC on Thursday, July 21, considering …
By Steve Klatt
Reader Contributor
Early mornings frequently find me glancing out my kitchen window for the first trace of dawn to the east as I write, read the papers …
By Susan Drumheller
Reader Contributor
Whether 50 feet of shoreline in Camp Bay stays open to the public is scheduled to be decided by the Bonner County commissioners on Wednesday, …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Contributor
Camp Bay has been described as a little slice of heaven.
For the Green family, as well as several lessees who have built cabins on …
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