Planting the seed
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff There’s a green thumb hard at work in the Sandpoint library’s garden. Hired this spring to take the community space to the next level and help improve education surrounding...
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The time travel soundtrack
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff American pop culture has proven again and again the power of nostalgia. Movie remakes, band reunions and the return of past fashions have dominated the mainstream as people —...
BoCo fairgrounds tussle headed to May ballot as advisory question
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Bonner County commissioners on March 21 reversed an earlier decision to move forward with a highly contentious boundary line adjustment between the Bonner County Fairgrounds and sheriff’s complex, also...
Dearly departed
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The honor roll of departed community icons is getting uncomfortably long. With the passing March 13 of Erik Daarstad, at age 87, Sandpoint has lost yet another irreplaceable personality...
Council takes on Hwy. 2 redesign in marathon info workshop
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As promised, the Sandpoint City Council hosted an informational workshop at its regular March 15 meeting focused on the Multimodal Transportation Master Plan, with a particular emphasis on concepts...
The Reader invites public to a town hall on ‘the Couplet’
By Reader Staff The Reader is hosting an open town hall to discuss “the Couplet” concept for widening and reorienting U.S. Highway 2, which has made the news in recent weeks. The event is...
Sandpoint council to host info workshop on Hwy. 2 ‘Couplet’ concept March 15
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff City Hall will again address the potential redevelopment of a portion of U.S. Highway 2 as it moves east and west through Sandpoint, this time in an informational workshop...
BoCo commissioners vote to move forward with fairgrounds boundary line adjustment
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It was another week of procedural sparring and high-tension discussion at the regular business meeting March 7 of the Bonner County Board of Commissioners — again hovering around issues...
Work commences on Memorial Field dock improvements
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Crews with local dock builder C.E. Kramer started work Feb. 20 at the War Memorial Field waterfront, staging equipment and preparing to get underway on Phase 2 of the...
BoCo commissioners reinstate use of Zoom on split vote
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff All but one of the action items at the Feb. 21 Bonner County commissioners’ meeting drew a unanimous vote in favor. That lone split vote marked the third time...
