Zach Hagadone

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 of impact. The unanimous vote followed a recommendation from P&Z in March to reduce the AOI from 12.3 square miles to 3.4 square miles, which the council approved in May. However, Dover and Sandpoint disagreed on who should serve an area east of Chuck Slough.

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 portraits of an artist who put on a costume of capering humor to mask a deep vein of pain.

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 of a marathon four-hour meeting June 25 to approve a new parking management plan.