ARTICLES BY KATHY HUBBARD CORRESPONDENT
City revisits downtown parking
SANDPOINT — The song remains the same, but perhaps the final verse hasn’t been written, yet.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Mermaids in Lake Pend Oreille? You betcha
SANDPOINT — It’ll be dawn at Buttonhook Bay, on Wednesday when six outstanding athletes will plunge themselves into Lake Pend Oreille with the goal of swimming relay to Sandpoint’s Statue of Liberty before dusk.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Friends recall Dean's calm
HOPE — Calm. The lake was calm, the winds were calm, and calm was the word that family, friends, co-workers and fellow members of Hope’s city council used to describe the man at the memorial held for Mayor Joe Dean on Friday.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
East Hope approves fire district annexation
EAST HOPE — The aim of ending years of divisive vitriol came to a possible end this week when council members voted to request annexation into Sam Owen Fire District. However, 38 residents of this community of less than 200 have already filed a petition to put the annexation to …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
Common sense ideas offer help with motion sickness
Ben thought sailing would be an attractive, adventurous sport until he found out that he would hurl when the sails unfurled.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
East Hope tables fire annexation
EAST HOPE — Tempers flared and emotions ran high as council members debated whether or not the city should annex into Sam Owen Fire District during Tuesday's council meeting. After a lengthy debate — peppered with some insults and accusations — the council, however, postponed a vote on the annexation …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
East Hope debates city's fire protection services
EAST HOPE — If there’s a fire, who will respond, how quickly with what equipment and at what cost to the city are the questions the City Council is discussing while debating whether or not to disband the local fire department and annex into Sam Owen Fire District.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
East Hope looks at water rates
EAST HOPE — The several years’ long process of metering all residential and commercial properties in the city were completed late last fall and now the council is prepared to bring proposed new water rates to the residents.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Sandpoint Builders relocates to downtown
“When one door closes another door opens,” Alexander Graham Bell said, and such was the case for Sandpoint Builders when they lost their lease on the Pine Street building they’ve occupied for the last dozen years.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Clark Fork residents voice opposition to sewer study
CLARK FORK — Council president Russ Schenck promised a short meeting, but a long discussion ensued regarding the city accepting funding for a sewer feasibility study from USDA Rural Development and Idaho Department of Environmental Quality.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Clark Fork council approves wastewater study
CLARK FORK — After waiting more than three years for the stars to align on funding for a waste water management feasibility study in the city, two Clark Fork City Council members voted against accepting the money. Mayor Jeff Jeffers broke the tie by voting in favor of signing the …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Hope mulls downtown sidewalk plan
HOPE — City officials are mulling a plan that called for handicapped accessible walkway that starts at City Hall and ends at the old Hope Hotel — traversing the better part of downtown Hope.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
IFG cautiously optimistic on fisheries
SANDPOINT — Getting us back to Kansas from Oz was world-renowned fishing expert Mike Hansen’s analogy for the goal of reviving the kokanee population and restoring the world-class trophy rainbows trout to Lake Pend Oreille at Wednesday night’s “state of the lake”address.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Cardiac rehabilitation can be key to longevity
In 1987, he had his first heart attack followed by a record seven-artery bypass for the hospital, the surgeon and, obviously, him. Overweight and with cholesterol out of control, George Lee Congleton was told that he better change his ways or put his affairs in order.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
