ARTICLES BY LEE HUGHES STAFF WRITER
Kaiser takes control at airports
SANDPOINT — The Sandpoint and Priest River airports have a new boss.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
City adopts preliminary budget
SANDPOINT — The City Council formally adopted a $31.7 million preliminary 2015-2016 budget at its regular meeting Wednesday evening.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Racing to help community's children
SANDPOINT — Maybe it’s fate, or destiny, if you prefer — the power or agency that supposedly predetermines and orders the course of events.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Sandpoint mulls city administrator post
SANDPOINT — The City Council formally considered a new position on the city’s staff at its regular meeting Wednesday evening: city administrator.
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Officials urge caution as fire danger heats up
SANDPOINT — Saturday is Independence Day, the Fourth of July, when America ostensibly celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the country’s emancipation from Great Britain.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Sandpoint ponders city administrator post
SANDPOINT — The City Council will be considering the merits of creating a new city administrator position at a budget discussion tonight during the council’s regular meeting.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Local pilot killed in Alaskan plane crash
HOPE — Local pilot Bryan Krill died Thursday when the de Havilland DHC-3 Otter turboprop float plane he was piloting crashed in what was described as unsettled weather about 25 miles northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska, during a charter sightseeing tour.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Study notes area's economic sustainability
SANDPOINT — Is Bonner County on the cusp of an economic sea change? It may be, if it can overcome some challenges.
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Panel: As exports climb, so will train traffic
SANDPOINT — Former presidential candidate Ross Perot coined the phrase, “giant sucking sound,” during his failed 1992 presidential bid. He was referring to the sound American jobs would make when they were sucked offshore to cheaper labor markets in developing countries overseas should the then-proposed North American Free Trade Agreement …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
FOIA failure prompts lawsuit
SANDPOINT — Failure to respond to a public information request is resulting in a lawsuit against the federal government.
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Horse camp offers rein-y day fun
SANDPOINT — School may be out for Bonner County students, but for some the learning continues, but in a different classroom environment: the back of a horse.
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Festival, friends mourn maestro
SANDPOINT — Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, musician, conductor, writer, and former Festival at Sandpoint artistic director Gunther Schuller died in Boston Sunday from undisclosed medical issues. He was 89.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Underground drug culture hiding in plain sight
SANDPOINT — There is a widening generation gap that most parents are unaware of, one that has little to do with shifting world views or social values. It does have plenty to do with drugs and alcohol, however, and how, in today’s teenage and young adult world, those substances are …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Neighbors, smoke alarm key to stopping fire
SANDPOINT — A smoke alarm and a local couple are credited with a quick response to a fire that minimized what would likely have been a much more catastrophic event.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
