County Solid Waste to make 10-year improvement plan
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County Solid Waste is looking to improve over the next decade and recently entered a contract with a company that will provide the county …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County Solid Waste is looking to improve over the next decade and recently entered a contract with a company that will provide the county …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County has shortened hours of operation and set a date for the temporary closure of the 11 Mile waste collection site.
Director of Solid …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County Commissioners unanimously approved a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) voicing the board’s opposition to the Kalispel Tribe of Indians’ request for …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Last week marked the latest in Bonner County’s wake saga, as county commissioners voted against extending no-wake zones from the county standard of 200 feet …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
Bonner County commissioners voted 3-0 Tuesday to adopt the Natural Resource Plan after four years of writing, workshopping and public debate.
The plan, drafted …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
The Natural Resource Plan will live to see another set of revisions after Wednesday night’s public hearing. This was the last public hearing regarding …
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 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
A small independent paper and the Hagadone Corporation are butting heads over a photograph the media company claims was misused.
Terri Ivie, editor of the …
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