By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Bonner County swearing-in ceremony Monday brought new faces to county positions, and also marked the last official county business for Commissioner Glen Bailey. Bailey lost the Republican primary...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff When it comes to that “high, lonesome” sound from Colorado, there are few bands who have a closer following than Yonder Mountain String Band. The progressive bluegrass band first...
By Jean Gerth Anderson Reader Contributor Next week, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 50 Sandpoint High School students will be presenting posters focused on solutions to climate change, with $1,000 in prize money at stake. The...
By Tom Eddy Reader Columnist There can be no avalanche without the failure of a weak layer within the snowpack. In an ideal world, all of our snow would fall at the same rate,...
Reader Staff It’s going to be a good year for cycling. The CHAFE 150 Gran Fondo, recently touted as one of the nation’s top charity bike rides by Bicycling Magazine, is expanding. Taking place...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For history buffs, there’s nothing better than watching history come alive. History will indeed spring to life on Friday, Jan. 11, with Living Voices’ production of “Our Revolution” at...
By Reader Staff On Dec. 27, 2018, Sandpoint lost a valued member of its community, Tamie Jo Martinsen. She passed away peacefully at the Schneidmiller Hospice House in Coeur d’Alene at the age of...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Aurora Brown’s art studio exudes the kind of warmth only a home studio can. Cats and dogs meander across the hardwood floor as the tea kettle begins to boil....
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff With no end in sight to the government shutdown constricting Washington, D.C., it may well go on record as the longest in U.S. history. That leaves government employees in...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff In this week’s knot-tying article, we’ll cover four more useful knots: the sheet bend, the figure-eight knot, the overhand knot and half hitch. Sheet Bend Let’s say you have...
