Why Wilderness?
By Phil Hough Reader Contributor When I was 10 years old, my dad and I took a 10-day adventure along the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, a canoe route established in northern Maine by that state’s...
Author: Ben Olson
McKiernan steps down as Daily Bee publisher
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Last week, Jim McKiernan stepped down as publisher of the Bonner County Daily Bee, Priest River Times and Bonners Ferry Herald. The circumstances of the departure are still unclear....
Candidate events line up in school board election
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff With the May 16 election for Lake Pend Oreille School Board shaping up to be the most heated in years, several candidate events are lining up to help inform...
It’s almost mushroom-harvesting time
By Reader Staff As the snow finally recedes and the temperatures warm, it is time to start thinking about harvesting mushrooms. The Idaho Panhandle National Forests welcomes mushroom harvesting, and offers some tips and...
BNSF to build second railroad bridge over Lake Pend Oreille
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Pending government approvals, BNSF Railway plans to move forward with a second bridge across Lake Pend Oreille. Company officials announced this week that design and engineering for the project...
From secular dictator to extremist hell-hole
By Christian Rose Reader Columnist It hasn’t even been a full generation since Saddam Hussein was removed from power in April 2003. And unless you’re one of those Americans that has never known the...
The Straight Poop: South Fork Hardware
By Drake the Dog Reader Pet Columnist Where am I taking my humans today? The Missus just got back from a business trip to Disneyworld, and I have a new leash on life! Mom...
Seek more as you observe Easter
By Paul Graves Reader Contributor Sometimes our spiritual curiosity seems kinda puny. So many people settle for what someone else tells them about the Bible, or Jesus, Christianity or religions other than Christianity No...
Easter shows the power of life
By Bob Evans Reader Contributor Ultimately, I think, when the life death and resurrection of Jesus is understood, it reveals to the believer that life has power and meaning after all. With this awareness,...
