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Sandpoint, Idaho is located in Bonner County. Zip codes in Sandpoint, ID include 83864, and 83888. More Sandpoint information.

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Friday | Sandpoint Idaho

Arts District opens Saturday

The Sandpoint Music Conservatory is one of the partners, with the Arts Alliance, Eureka Institute and Redtail Gallery putting on the event.

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Thu May 31, 2012

M2.com

US Intermountain Community Bancorp closes rights offering

The offering included the purchase of unsubscribed shares by the company's new investors, which expired on 21 May 2012.

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Wed May 30, 2012

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Spokane diocese seeks $1.5M to settle claims of clergy sex abuse

Parishioners of Catholic churches in Spokane are being asked to contribute $1.5 million more toward a broad legal settlement to help resolve clergy sex-abuse claims that have dogged the diocese for a decade.

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MarketWatch

Coldwater Creek narrows loss, shares fall

Revenue for the three months ended April 28 fell to $169.9 million from $179.8 million, with comparable store-sales down 0.6%. Analysts polled by FactSet Research had predicted the Sandpoint, Idaho-based women's apparel retailer would post a loss of 20 cents a share on $173.3 million in revenue.

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Sun May 27, 2012

Sandpoint Idaho

NIC moves into Sandpoint

North Idaho College President Priscilla Bell signed a five-year lease to move the college satellite campus from Bonner Mall in Ponderay to the Sandpoint Event Center.

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Fri May 25, 2012

Sandpoint Idaho

Group hoping to rebuild War Memorial Field dugouts

Opening Day in Sandpoint seemed like the perfect time to kick start a project for new dugouts at War Memorial Field, so Bulldogs head baseball coach Chris Young teamed up with local Lisa Bell to raise more than $2,000 with a pancake breakfast and hamburger fundraiser recently.

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Sandpoint football program raises $50,000 in raffle

The Sandpoint football program hopes to add some teeth to its new motto, and thanks to a $50,000 cash infusion raised by raffling off a fully-restored 1965 Mustang, one of the first big steps has been accomplished.

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Thu May 24, 2012

Spokane Journal of Business

Sandpoint economic-development effort focuses on foodies

In his search for ideas to spark economic development in Sandpoint, Idaho, Mark Rivers, a Boise-based real estate and marketing consultant, says he discovered that local food and beverage purveyors, individually and sometimes in cooperation, had led him to one conclusion: Life tastes good in Sandpoint.

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Wed May 23, 2012

Sandpoint Idaho

Sandpoint student wins writing contest

Sandpoint student Maggie Russell captured first place in the first-grade category of the Idaho Public Television / KUID regional PBS KIDS GO! Writer's Contest.

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Burglary suspect pleads guilty

A teen who was allegedly caught red-handed burglarizing vehicles belonging to a Sandpoint councilman and his wife pleaded guilty on Monday.

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Tue May 22, 2012

GlobeNewswire

Intermountain Community Bancorp of Sandpoint, ID, Announces Expiration of Rights Offering

Intermountain Community Bancorp , the bank holding company of Panhandle State Bank , today announced that the offering period of its previously announced rights offering expired on May 21, 2012 in accordance with its terms.

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Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce

Upscale developers sue Idaho county

Developers of an upscale, fly-in housing development at the Sandpoint Airport in northern Idaho have filed a lawsuit against Bonner County contending they have not been treated fairly.

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Rescuers pull bicyclist from river

A young man was plucked from the Pend Oreille River late Friday night after he reportedly crashed his bicycle into a guardrail on the pedestrian side of the Long Bridge and went over the side of the span.

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Sun May 20, 2012

KHQ-TV Spokane

Fly-in housing developers sue Bonner County

Developers of an upscale, fly-in housing development at the Sandpoint Airport in northern Idaho have filed a lawsuit against Bonner County contending they have not been treated fairly.

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Sandpoint Idaho

Sandpiper Shores action dismissed

A legal challenge of a controversial subdivision expansion at the north end of Priest Lake is being put to rest.

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Sat May 19, 2012

Sandpoint Idaho

Sandpoint rejects herbicides for City Beach milfoil

While Lake Pend Oreille definitely has a watermilfoil problem, herbicides aren't on the table as a treatment plan anymore.

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Fri May 18, 2012

Sandpoint Idaho

Loggins, Barenaked Ladies top Festival's lineup

The Festival at Sandpoint is celebrating its 30th annual summer concert series with a sparkling lineup that features Kenny Loggins, Barenaked Ladies, and Counting Crows.

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Sandpoint Idaho

Lost in the 50's sets classic fun

Once again, Lost in the 50's is right around the corner, and like every year, executive Carolyn Gleason is spending every waking moment making sure the weekend goes off without a hitch.

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Tue May 15, 2012

Marion Star

More-moderate GOP candidates fend off challenges

BOISE, Idaho - In early primary results for the Legislature, Republican incumbents whose votes tend to be more moderate appeared to be beating back challenges from libertarian-leaning challengers who sought to turn the Idaho GOP on its head.

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KRMG-AM Tulsa

N. Idaho man sentenced in fatal hammer attack

A northern Idaho man was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for first-degree murder in the death of a 43-year-old neighbor following a violent hammer attack on her and members of her family nearly two years ago.

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