The children just want to breathe
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff As fires rage in Idaho’s forests, the smoke hangs so thick sometimes in Sandpoint that its famous views take on a muted, ghostly pallor. Summer vacation, every kid’s dream,...
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Jeff Crosby Band to play The Hive
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Hailing from a small mountain town outside of McCall, Jeff Crosby is no stranger to Idaho living. For the first time in almost a decade, The Jeff Crosby Band...
Final team advances to Phase 3 of downtown waterfront design competition
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff One day after a panel of judges heard presentations from the three teams in Phase 2 of the city’s downtown waterfront design competition, the Sandpoint City Council voted unanimously...
BNSF officially opens two-way rail traffic over Lake Pend Oreille bridges
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff After more than a decade of planning and construction since 2019, BNSF Railway announced Aug. 7 that it had officially opened two-way traffic on the new and refurbished train...
Sandpoint area children hit the high notes at free music camp
By Rick Reed Reader Contributor Forty-two children enrolled for the free music camp run by the all-volunteer organization Music Bridges Borders and hosted July 17-20 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,...
City Hall to host public hearing on draft Comp Plan update
By Reader Staff The city of Sandpoint began updating its Comprehensive Plan in 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic put the effort on hold until 2022. Now, after a three-year process, the final steps for...
Lost in the ’50s weekend has arrived
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Get ready for the sound of vintage motors revving, doo-wop music blaring over loudspeakers and a couple thousand people milling about downtown Sandpoint — it’s about to be Lost...
Stage 2 waterfront design contest teams present to public at City Hall
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The city of Sandpoint hosted a public meet-and-greet April 12 of the three teams selected to advance into Stage 2 of its downtown waterfront design competition, featuring presentations from...
BoCo commissioners will hear from Fair Board on preferred RV park location
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The April 4 meeting of the Bonner County Commissioners, which lasted a remarkable four hours prior to executive session, saw two split votes on matters related to the proposed...
City gets rolling on Division Ave. Phase 1 improvement project
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The city of Sandpoint is moving forward with a project to improve the heavily traveled stretch of Division Avenue from Superior Street to the intersection with U.S. Highway 2....
