Primary ballot will feature Scotchman Peaks question
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
The question of whether the proposed Scotchman Peaks Wilderness will come to be will now be an issue Bonner County citizens can vote for …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
The question of whether the proposed Scotchman Peaks Wilderness will come to be will now be an issue Bonner County citizens can vote for …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
Friday night’s climate change presentation and panel discussion, “Let’s Clear the Air: A Conversation about Climate, Energy and Jobs,” attracted a full Sandpoint Community …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
Climate change can be a particularly divisive topic, so local forces are teaming up for a night of bipartisan discussion.
“Let’s Clear the Air: …
By Jim Ramsey
Reader Contributor
In the wake of catastrophic fires in the West in the summer and fall following the unprecedented storms in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, this …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
The Bonner County Commissioners held a workshop Wednesday to review the county’s Natural Resource Plan, drafted by the Bonner County Natural Resource Committee.
“This …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
The public turned out in droves Tuesday for another Bonner County Board of Commissioners meeting, this time to debate the merits of a proposed Clagstone …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Commissioners signed off on a controversial change to Bonner County Planning Department appeals Wednesday despite heavy resistance.
Dozens of county residents attended the meeting to …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
If any symbolic figureheads have emerged in the local debate over refugee resettlement, they’re Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad and Bonner County Commissioner Glen Bailey.
Bailey …
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