Leave the leaves
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
If the recent snowfall blanketed your yard before you had a chance to rake up the leaves, don’t worry. You are not an inconsiderate neighbor, …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
If the recent snowfall blanketed your yard before you had a chance to rake up the leaves, don’t worry. You are not an inconsiderate neighbor, …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s been a long road to travel, but the downtown Sandpoint waterfront design competition reached a critical juncture Nov. 15, when members of the City …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Sandpoint City Hall has set a date for a town hall-style workshop on the revised Comprehensive Plan for Wednesday, Nov. 29, from 5-7 p.m. at …
By Carrie Logan
Reader Contributor
I regret my decision as mayor of Sandpoint to create a new city position: city administrator. If I had it to do it again, I …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Sandpoint City Council members voted Oct. 6 to approve the preliminary plat for a 10-unit single-family housing development dubbed Madison Meadows, located just north of …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Sandpoint’s housing affordability crisis was front and center at the Oct. 5 meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission, as members voted 3-1 to recommend …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Sandpoint Planning and Zoning commissioners voted Sept. 7 to delay action on a proposed amendment to zoning code that would clear the way for structures …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Nearly three weeks after tabling a decision on the University Park development — proposed for the 75-acre former University of Idaho property on North Boyer …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Members of the Sandpoint Planning and Zoning Commission took in a presentation Nov. 19 on the airport component of the recently launched Comprehensive Plan update, …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
The city of Sandpoint is beginning to clarify its hopes for the University of Idaho’s North Boyer property following news that the college aims to …
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