City Hall takes in updates on major projects
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The Sandpoint City Council heard a number of updates on ongoing, big-ticket projects at its regular March 19 meeting, queuing up a busy season going …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The Sandpoint City Council heard a number of updates on ongoing, big-ticket projects at its regular March 19 meeting, queuing up a busy season going …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The city of Sandpoint is progressing with its effort to replace and upgrade the ailing wastewater treatment plant, which has limped along for years with …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Lake Pend Oreille School District Superintendent Dr. Becky Meyer met with families before the regular school board meeting Nov. 12 to answer questions on planned …
By Reader Staff
Construction work began April 11 at the northeast corner of Bridge Street and First Avenue in downtown Sandpoint, where a hole has sat in place of a …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Work continues apace on street and pedestrian right-of-way construction in the downtown core. Nearly a month after crews broke ground on the project — Phase …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
When A&P Bar and Grill Manager James Mize was brainstorming a way to close out summer 2018 with a bang, he decided a cornhole tournament …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Despite the poor air quality, construction work along Cedar and Oak streets is on schedule and on budget.
This week, workers will finish installation of …
‘Bulb-outs’ don’t make sense in our community
By Lawrence Fury
Reader Contributor
“I shop for my clothes in Coeur d’Alene or in Ponderay. In the last 20 years, the only …
By Cameron Barnes
Reader Staff
During our recent coverage of the memorial field grandstand demolition, I met Jim Woodward, the man behind Apex Construction. As we watched the grandstands being …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Work on Fifth Avenue is on pace to introduce two-way traffic by mid-November, according to city officials.
Although key steps like the installation of a …
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