Council adopts ‘civility and decorum’ ordinance
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Civility governing interactions between the public and staff at City Hall, as well as decorum at public meetings, are at the core of a new …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Civility governing interactions between the public and staff at City Hall, as well as decorum at public meetings, are at the core of a new …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Weeks of controversy have roiled the West Bonner County School District, as its trustees have hosted a number of charged public board meetings related to …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
As Reader Publisher Ben Olson pointed out in his “Dear Readers” column last week, I celebrated something of a milestone on June 14: My 1,000th …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s a paradox to be deciphered by future historians, but for as much as we live in a time of tremendous technologically-driven capability, it is …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The Little Sand Creek Watershed Recreation Plan has been given the greenlight, after Sandpoint city councilors voted unanimously June 7 to approve the document at …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
One of the best parts of being a journalist — especially being a journalist for a really long time — is that you end up …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Bonner County voters returned a number of incumbents to office in the May 16 election for trustee positions on the East Bonner County Library and …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
“Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it.”
— Mark Twain, on …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
A little more than two weeks after the 2023 Idaho Legislature adjourned on April 6, the Bonner County Republican Central Committee issued a vote of …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Among the agenda items addressed at the April 26 meeting of the Bonner County Area Transportation Team were a number of significant developments regarding the …
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