A farewell to the Festival tent
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Last year’s concertgoers didn’t know it at the time, but they’d just attended the final show under the Festival at Sandpoint’s iconic white tent. This …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Last year’s concertgoers didn’t know it at the time, but they’d just attended the final show under the Festival at Sandpoint’s iconic white tent. This …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Sandpoint may be the seat of Bonner County, and therefore capture the lion’s share of attention, but its little sister city Dover is every bit …
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, …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Civility governing interactions between the public and staff at City Hall, as well as decorum at public meetings, are at the core of a new …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
While tensions have run high at Bonner County commissioner meetings for months, that tension reached an all-time high on June 27, as Chairman Steve Bradshaw …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The sound and fury surrounding West Bonner School District’s selection of Branden Durst to serve as its latest superintendent will continue, after trustees opened and …
By Zach Hagadone and Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Sandpoint experienced one of its biggest news days in decades June 1, when Denver-based snowsports goliath Alterra Mountain Company announced it had …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The Little Sand Creek Watershed Recreation Plan has been given the greenlight, after Sandpoint city councilors voted unanimously June 7 to approve the document at …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
The board of Bonner County commissioners voted May 30 to move forward with soliciting bids for construction of an RV campground on a parcel between …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
On May 9, Bonner County Assessor Grant Dorman — who took office in January — issued his resignation effective Friday, June 2 due to health …
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