Lawyering up
By Zach Hagadone and Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
It has been more than two weeks since Bonner County commissioners voted to proceed with legal action against the city of Sandpoint …
By Zach Hagadone and Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
It has been more than two weeks since Bonner County commissioners voted to proceed with legal action against the city of Sandpoint …
By Zach Hagadone and Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Festival at Sandpoint had barely opened its 2019 season when open carry and concealed firearms advocates took aim at the event’s …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Bonner County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to close both the 11 Mile and Wrenco waste collection sites, but not without tense discussion regarding …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County Commissioners are putting the brakes on restructuring the county’s Emergency Management Services.
Since news broke in December that the BOCC was considering a …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County commissioners approved the appointment of six members to the Solid Waste Advisory Committee on April 23, and term limits for those members were …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County commissioners unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday that states their opposition to any law restricting the Second Amendment.
The resolution, placed on the agenda …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to update the resolution which establishes an Emergency Management Services advisory committee.
The use of a reinvigorated EMS advisory …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County Commissioners were divided on a vote Tuesday that ultimately led to the end of any county employee involvement with the Bonner Regional Team.…
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Results are now available from a survey of Bonner County residents regarding their concerns for the future.
Project 7B Chair Daniel Shlaferman gave each Bonner …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Bonner County Commissioners hosted a public meeting Friday to hear questions and concerns over the possible shift of the county’s Emergency Management Services from …
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