Mayor’s Roundtable: State of the city — 2023
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
It has been another busy year for the city of Sandpoint. The city is in a good state. The city started off 2022 by …
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
It has been another busy year for the city of Sandpoint. The city is in a good state. The city started off 2022 by …
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
This is the third piece in a six-part series discussing the Leland Report. The purpose of the report was to help guide the city …
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
Last week the Sandpoint City Council reviewed a report from Leland Consulting, a firm that specializes in economic development, strategic growth and public private …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Roganstad presented a resolution at the Feb. 16 regular City Council meeting to adopt June 19 — or “Juneteenth” — as an …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Sandpoint City Council members took up a number of growth and development-related issues at their regular meeting Dec. 15, including new appointees to the Planning …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
As both regional and national headlines continue to pile up regarding the lack of affordable housing — especially in the Northwest — the recently formed …
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad
Reader Contributor
Sandpoint and the region is at a critical moment right now. Idaho continues to be the fastest growing state in the nation and the …
Kids ran and played ball, some turning cartwheels and kicking up bits of cork in the process, on the new War Memorial Field turf Aug. 7, as city dignitaries milled …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It was another emotionally-charged, marathon meeting of the Sandpoint City Council on July 1, as council members and an overflow crowd navigated two public forum …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The Sandpoint City Council held a virtual meeting Wednesday, April 1 at 5:30 with a sparse agenda.
Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad recognized that he had …
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