Sandpoint City Council approves $52.9M budget
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Members of the Sandpoint City Council voted unanimously at their regular Aug. 16 meeting to approve a fiscal year 2024 budget of $52,974,269 — an aincrease of about $3.3...
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Final team advances to Phase 3 of downtown waterfront design competition
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff One day after a panel of judges heard presentations from the three teams in Phase 2 of the city’s downtown waterfront design competition, the Sandpoint City Council voted unanimously...
Turning back the clock with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff One thing that can be said in favor of Hollywood’s addictive cycle of prequels, sequels and reboots is that I’ve been able to replay many of my favorite cinematic...
BNSF officially opens two-way rail traffic over Lake Pend Oreille bridges
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff After more than a decade of planning and construction since 2019, BNSF Railway announced Aug. 7 that it had officially opened two-way traffic on the new and refurbished train...
Finalists present their concepts for downtown waterfront design competition
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff After nearly six months, the city of Sandpoint is getting close to identifying a finalist in its downtown waterfront design competition, which kicked off in late-February when the City...
‘Over-organized, overpriced and over-proud’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last/ Slouches toward Bethlemen to be born?” — W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming,” published 1920 It’s impossible that I recollect...
Council takes up Urban Area Transportation Plan, moving stoplight from Church to Pine
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Local and regional transportation topics led the regular Aug. 2 meeting of the Sandpoint City Council, with majority votes to increase funding for an updated Urban Area Transportation Plan...
My ‘office sister’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff There is a page in my desk calendar that I’ve been dreading since there was still snow on the ground. Sometime back in the late-winter or early-spring, I wrote...
BoCo commissioners spar over fairgrounds rezone
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The first hour or so of the regular business meeting of the Bonner County commissioners July 25 proceeded without incident. The Road and Bridge Department earned plaudits for reopening...
Dover turns 100
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sandpoint may be the seat of Bonner County, and therefore capture the lion’s share of attention, but its little sister city Dover is every bit as compelling in its...
