Farmin Park News Today

Dannette Carnegie wasn’t sure what the future of the Cottage Market would look like this year, but when those in her community insisted that it was an asset to the area, she took action.

Maternity wards, geese, Travers Park, recalls, and resignations all have one thing in common — they all made significant city and education headlines in Bonner County in 2023.

As part of a new program, local authors will be telling stories under the night sky while children gather around a campfire in a Sandpoint park as the smell of gooey marshmallows and toasted graham crackers set the scene.

Armed with input from the public, city officials, and Sandpoint's Waterfront Design Competition jury, the winning design firm will unveil its revised vision for the city's downtown next week. The presentation will take place Tuesday, Oct. 10, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. It will be open to the public for in-person viewing in City Council Chambers at Sandpoint City Hall, 1123 Lake St., or online at sandpointidaho.gov/stage2design.

SANDPOINT — After evaluation and feedback from a jury of experts, the Sandpoint City Council voted Wednesday in favor of GGLO’s “The Blue Necklace” design as the finalist of the city’s Waterfront Design Competition.

The community is invited to head over to Farmin Park today for a genre-bending band from New Orleans. The latest band welcomed to town as part of the Sandpoint Summer Music Series, Bon Bon Vivant melds everything from singer/songwriter music, pop and Americana to dark ballads and up-tempo indie dance music. The free concert will begin at 6 p.m. in Farmin Park, located on Oak Street between Third and Fourth avenues.

Originally begun to sell excess garden produce in 1988, the Sandpoint Farmers Market today showcases vendors selling jewelry, meat, baked goods, tea, tinctures, flowers, crafts,...

In early February of 1941, following the fall of France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium to Hitler’s marauding armies, as young (average age 20) British spitfire and hurricane fighter pilots continued to drive Luftwaffe bombers from the skies over London and other U.K. cities, and as Hitler’s armies ravished what remained of free Europe, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent British Prime Minister Winston Churchill a poem by Longfellow which Roosevelt said: “applies to you ...

The Suzuki String Academy and City Beach Organics will be presenting “The Sound of Music” Sunday, June 11, “like it's never been done before.”

A look at the events, activities, and meetings taking place around Bonner County, from Sandpoint to Cocolalla, from Priest River to Ponderay, and from Clark Fork to Dover.