By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Perhaps it’s fitting that a holiday commemorating the commencement of a world-historical conflict should generate controversy. So it has been with Sandpoint’s traditional Fourth of July celebration — canceled...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The 2021 Sandpoint Fourth of July will occur under the auspices of the Lions Club, as it has done — with one interruption, in 2020 — for 68 years....
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As with a host of other long-time community events, including Lost in the ’50s and The Festival at Sandpoint, the annual Fourth of July celebration fell victim to the...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff A charge of battery involving Sandpoint residents who were involved in an incident after a Bonner County Board of Commissioners Business meeting in January was dismissed March 26, according...
By Lyndsie Kiebert and Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As the Bonner County v. City of Sandpoint weapons ban lawsuit enters its fifth month, tensions have steadily increased, boiling over when an encounter between members of...
Carrying in public places: ‘Better to have it and not need it’ By Steve Wasylko Reader Contributor The short answer is “yes,” I would feel safe at the Festival knowing concertgoers were potentially armed. I...
