Sandpoint SummerFest celebrates 30th years
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s been 30 years since the first annual event once known as Jerryfest, which over the past three decades has morphed into SummerFest — an …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s been 30 years since the first annual event once known as Jerryfest, which over the past three decades has morphed into SummerFest — an …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Festival at Sandpoint officials are hoping to make 2018 the safest and most convenient festival year to date.
This year, event organizers are introducing security …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Next winter season at Schweitzer, skiers and boarders using the bus to head up to the slopes are being put on the SPOT.
The Selkirks-Pend …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
The city of Sandpoint approved the Selkirks-Pend Oreille Transportation bus system, better known as SPOT, for another year of funding Wednesday.
The bus system, which …
Ben Olson
Reader Staff
SPOT (Selkirks-Pend Oreille Transit) and the Lake Pend Oreille School District have partnered with The Festival at Sandpoint to provide convenient, free parking and transportation to …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
For the better part of a decade, SPOT has been linking together the communities of Dover, Sandpoint, Ponderay and Kootenai. Thanks to an experimental route …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Both education and community improvement are on the table with the Eureka Institute’s latest project.
The local nonprofit, which encourages personal growth and learning through …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
If a major part of growing up is moving out of the parents’ house, then SPOT just hit its stride.
The bus system, which launched …
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