By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Bonner County commissioners wasted no time at their March 14 meeting making allegiances known regarding an issue that first reared its head in July 2022: the expansion of the...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff It’s been just over a week since Bonner County Prosecuting Attorney Louis Marshall, Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler and Sandpoint Police Chief Corey Coon released a joint statement urging...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Bonner County commissioners voted unanimously Aug. 2 to accept grant funding from the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation to expand the RV campground at the Bonner County Fairgrounds....
By Reader Staff According to a legal opinion from the Idaho attorney general’s office obtained by the Reader late Feb. 16, Bonner County commissioners “likely” violated state Open Meeting Law by inadequately noticing an...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The rift between Bonner County commissioners and Sheriff Daryl Wheeler over a lease agreement for an ice rink to be built next to the Bonner County Fairgrounds continues to...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Bonner County commissioners approved a lease agreement for the construction of the Sandpoint Ice Arena on a piece of fairgrounds property on Oct. 26. More than two weeks later,...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Bonner County commissioners unanimously approved a series of requests from Sheriff Daryl Wheeler during the board’s Nov. 2 business meeting, returning American Rescue Plan Act funds to the county...
By Lyndsie Kiebert and Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Bonner County filed an objection in district court Sept. 30 in response to the city of Sandpoint’s request for almost $94,000 in costs and legal fees...
By Zach Hagadone and Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff After a year in the courts, countless hours of community conversation and gallons of newspaper ink, the lawsuit against the city of Sandpoint brought by Bonner...
By Brenda Hammond Reader Contributor Do you know what a “constitutional sheriff” is? And do you know if we have one? It’s important to go back a bit in order to put these questions...
