DEQ seeking comment on Black Rock cleanup plan
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s been a long time coming, but the effort to connect Ponderay with its Lake Pend Oreille waterfront is teeing up to enter the first stages of coming to...
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Sandpoint City Hall tables Comp Plan vote
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff An update to Sandpoint’s Comprehensive Plan hasn’t reached the finish line yet, but it’s getting close. After four years of work — interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic — councilors...
Spacepoint hosts final Sci-Fest event of the year, featuring a talk on black holes and screening of Interstellar
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Despite their prevalence in science fiction, black holes have until fairly recently existed only in theory. That all changed eight years ago, thanks to a little known observatory in...
Sandpoint City Council votes to rezone portions of BoCo Fairgrounds
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff In a special public hearing Sept. 27, Sandpoint City Council members voted to approve two requests from the Bonner County commissioners to rezone portions of the Bonner County Fairgrounds...
Council gives final greenlight for construction of James E. Russell Sports Center
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff After more than a year of planning — and rising community debate in recent months — Sandpoint City Council members voted Sept. 27 to give their final approval to...
Sandpoint Library hosts second installment of monthly ‘Natural Connections’ program
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Despite its 5,000-year history and continued prevalence in India and Tibet, Ayurveda is still relatively obscure to many in the global West. Ayurvedic wellness counselor Yvonne Heitz hopes to...
Sandpoint City Council hears presentation on establishing local housing authority
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Members of the Sandpoint City Council took in a presentation Sept. 20 on the establishment of a local housing authority, which would leverage a combination of municipal, institutional, state...
BoCo Republican Central Committee declines to censure commissioners
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Bonner County Republican Central Committee gathered Sept. 19 to tackle a lengthy agenda, but the item that drew the greater number of about 100 attendees to the Ponderay...
Sandpoint cuts the ribbon on Silver Box installation ‘At Rivers Edge’
The city of Sandpoint celebrated the installation of the first of three pieces in the 2023-’24 Silver Box art-on-loan program with a ribbon cutting Sept. 13, welcoming the sculpture “At Rivers Edge,” by Bonners...
Woodward will seek Dist. 1 Senate seat
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As candidates have filed to run for local office in the November election, Jim Woodward has his eye on the May 2024 Republican primary, announcing Sept. 7 that he...
