By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Bonner County is appealing its case against the city of Sandpoint to the Idaho Supreme Court, after a district court judge ruled in early September that the county lacked...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Kootenai County District Judge Lansing L. Haynes is scheduled to hear a motion for attorney fees and costs on Oct. 27, marking the latest movement in the lawsuit Bonner...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff To say that 2020 has presented some challenges to The Festival at Sandpoint would be an understatement — and even that understatement would be an understatement. Between the War...
By Lyndsie Kiebert and Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Bonner County filed an objection in district court Sept. 30 in response to the city of Sandpoint’s request for almost $94,000 in costs and legal fees...
By Zach Hagadone and Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff After a year in the courts, countless hours of community conversation and gallons of newspaper ink, the lawsuit against the city of Sandpoint brought by Bonner...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The original suit surrounding The Festival at Sandpoint’s weapons ban saw some action Aug. 25, as counsel for both Bonner County and the city of Sandpoint presented oral arguments...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Last week, Reader Publisher Ben Olson and Editor-in-Chief Zach Hagadone shared their “dream” Festival at Sandpoint lineup in lieu of a real 2020 schedule, since the event has been...
Full circle at The Festival By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Though I’ve lived in Bonner County all my life, I’d attended The Festival maybe once before I was asked to walk onto its stage...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff I’m a pragmatic man, so when the Reader editorial staff came up with the idea of conjuring a “Dream Festival” lineup, my mind first flew to impossibilities before I...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff For the past 38 years, music lovers from around the region have marked early August on their entertainment calendars in anticipation of The Festival at Sandpoint. This year, owing...
