2025 YEAR IN REVIEW
Recapping some of the biggest headlines of the year… pray for us By Zach HagadoneReader Staff At the end of the introductory paragraph in the 2024 “Year in Review,” we congratulated Reader readers on...
Tagged: James E. Russell Sports Center
Council votes to give James E. Russell Center more time to generate revenue
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Members of the Sandpoint City Council voted June 25 to maintain the status quo with management of the James E. Russell Sports Center, giving the facility and its new...
Public recycling bins set to debut
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sandpoint City Councilor Pam Duquette is preparing to roll out a pilot project providing a dozen recycling bins to locations ranging from City Beach to the downtown core, Farmin...
Sandpoint Rec. Division moving to Russell Sports Center, with some programs canceled
By Reader Staff The city of Sandpoint announced April 23 that the Recreation Division offices will relocate from City Hall to the James E. Russell Sports Center at 2016 Pine St., effective Monday, April...
Double whammy
By Brendan Kelty Naples Reader Contributor I was dismayed reading in the March 13 edition the Reader about the current financial troubles at the James E. Russell Sports Center at Travers Park due to...
Update on James E. Russell Sports Center shows lower-than-anticipated revenue
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Planning and Community Development Director Jason Welker recently walked the council and mayor through an update on the James E. Russell Sports Center, which has been open to users...
2025 year in preview
By Reader Staff Even if you’ve never read any of the works of 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, you’ve probably heard someone repeat his famous line: “A pessimist is an optimist in full possession...
2024 Year in Review
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff We’ve been publishing the “Year in Review” for a while now, and every installment seems to get bigger and bigger. Maybe that’s because there’s always more and more news,...
Sandpoint City Council nixes giving employees free JER Sports Center memberships
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Members of the Sandpoint City Council backed away from a proposed resolution that would have given city employees free memberships to the James E. Russell Sports Center, voting 5-1...
Travers parking lot to close for paving as part of overall park renovation
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Big things are happening at Travers Park, as crews will pave the south parking lot located off of Pine Street. The work will run from Monday, Oct. 14 to...
