Festival Memories
Ben, Zach and Soncirey reminisce about the Festival at Sandpoint ‘The best bar in town’By Zach Hagadone I wrote about a few of my Festival at Sandpoint memories in 2020 — in the onset...
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Regional library consortium votes to dissolve
Cooperative Information Network, which includes West Bonner, will be no more as of Sept. 30 By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Members of the Cooperative Information Network met July 16 at the Coeur d’Alene Library and...
Sandpoint P&Z recommends eliminating city’s area of impact
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff After months of consideration, and a meeting with the Bonner County board of commissioners, the Sandpoint Planning and Zoning Commission voted July 15 to recommend eliminating the city’s area...
Pee-wee as Himself is a gripping portrait of a complex artist — never a ‘sad clown’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Watching the two-part HBO Max documentary Pee-wee as Himself, it’s tempting to draw associations with a novel like Heinrich Böll’s The Clown or an opera like Pagliacci. Both are...
Council punts on adopting preliminary $49.9M fiscal year 2026 budget
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Sandpoint City Council voted July 9 to hold off on adopting the preliminary fiscal year 2026 budget — which would have established a maximum expenditure of $49,927,665 —...
Idaho congressional delegation applauds passage of ‘big, beautiful bill’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The U.S. House passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” on a 218-214 vote July 3, which President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4. While Trump proclaimed...
Sandpoint City Council approves final downtown parking plan
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff After more than half a year of presentations, Planning and Zoning meetings, community feedback and other City Hall deliberation, the Sandpoint City Council voted 3-1 at the tail end...
Sorry JD Vance, there is no ‘native-born’ American aristocracy
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Add another entry in the ever-expanding catalog of lies, intellectual abuses and inanities that define the Trump administration, with the remarks delivered July 5 by Vice President JD Vance...
Council votes to give James E. Russell Center more time to generate revenue
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Members of the Sandpoint City Council voted June 25 to maintain the status quo with management of the James E. Russell Sports Center, giving the facility and its new...
Idaho Sens. Crapo and Risch come out against proposed public land sales
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Americans of all political stripes have been in an uproar over a proposal in the budget reconciliation bill currently before the U.S. Senate that initially would have put about...
