Rounding up the horses
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The horses have finally found a home. In 2016, after Clay and Reno Hutchison unpacked two trailers and brought an intact 1920 Allan Herschell carousel into the light for...
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Sandpoint business owner files tort against city of Sandpoint
By Ben Olson Reader Staff A Sandpoint business owner has filed a tort claim against the city of Sandpoint five months after a police raid on her business has yet to result in criminal...
Mayor Jeremy Grimm, new council members sworn in at Sandpoint City Hall
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The regular Jan. 3 meeting of the Sandpoint City Council ushered in a number of big changes at City Hall, with the swearing-in of Jeremy Grimm as mayor and...
YEAR IN REVIEW: 2023
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff We’ve been doing these retrospectives every year since 2020, and so far the ’20s have lived up to their reputation for being “roaring.” Just reading the list of big...
Jennifer Stapleton will resign as Sandpoint city administrator
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Among the biggest news to come out of Sandpoint City Hall in a year filled with hefty headlines was the pre-holiday announcement by City Administrator Jennifer Stapleton that she...
City Council votes to accept final downtown waterfront design report
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 Council voted to accept...
City Council roundup
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad had strong words at the Sept. 7 regular meeting of the Sandpoint City Council, related to a number of “things happening out there in the...
Mayor’s Roundtable: Sandpoint State of the City 2022
By Mayor Shelby Rognstad Reader Contributor There have been a lot of changes at City Hall over the past year. Most notably, the city completed a remodel of the administration offices. Since the city’s...
Rognstad will run for Idaho governor as a write-in candidate
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff After a filing error by Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad’s campaign for Idaho governor prompted the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office to leave him off the May 17 primary ballot,...
Citing filing error, secretary of state leaves Rognstad off May primary ballot
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad made a lot of headlines in November when he announced his candidacy for Idaho governor. Running as a Democrat in Republican-dominated Idaho, he faced an...
