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BEACH: Time to take it back

| July 2, 2025 1:00 AM

Forget the showboating looney tunes — we have recordings of barking dogs blaring at Sanders Beach to keep people away! Clearly, some of our wealthier residents forgot how recently that beach was taken from the public — and that we only need 2 feet to take it back!

I remember it well: Summer 2005, the summer before my senior year. With the city beach packed with tourists, Sanders was the locals’ secret: a nice stretch of sandy beach and buoyed water enjoyed by the public going back to 1891, and formally donated to the city in 1978. It was enjoyed by the Coeur d’Alene public for over a century.

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