Taking Refuge:
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Between fliers for citizenship classes and support groups, a print-off of Psalm 16 greets visitors of the World Relief Spokane office. “Keep me safe, my God, for in you...
Author: Ben Olson
Input needed for highway corridor
The city invites the public to participate in crafting a vision for the Highway 2/200 Corridor. Public open houses will be held Dec. 9-10, from 5-7 p.m. at the The Sandpoint Center at Columbia...
City to revamp billing policy
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The Bonner Community Food Center’s hefty two-month sewer bill won’t be lowered—at least not yet. The Sandpoint City Council voted Wednesday against lowering the nonprofit’s sewer bill for the...
Van Dyk announces retirement
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Sandpoint Public Works Director Kody Van Dyk announced he will be retiring in March. The longtime city department head gave his notice this week, opening up the office that...
Impacting the Community:
By Donna Brundage Reader Contributor It is sometimes overwhelming for an organization created to defend against discrimination, irrationally based hatred and open bigotry to function within an orchestrated culture of fear. While the role...
Let’s welcome Syrian refugees to the Palouse
By Nick Gier Reader Staff On November 21, an estimated 700 people participated in a “Rally for Solidarity with Refugees in Idaho” at the Statehouse. A friend who attended said that “the crowd enthusiastically...
Bonner County commissioners oppose refugee resettlement
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff It didn’t take long for disorder to break out at Tuesday’s Bonner County Board of Commissioners public hearing. Perhaps it was inevitable that the meeting, in which commissioners unanimously...
Good job, you princes of Sandpoint
By Tim Henney Reader Staff On Friday night, Nov. 13, the civilized world shuddered. One hundred and thirty people were slaughtered and 350 or more hospitalized in Paris by ISIS murderers. The next day...
An interview with Shook Twins
By Dustin Hoffman Reader Staff The Shook Twins have been off honing their indie folk-pop style in Portland, Ore., but they are Sandpoint natives, born and raised. They are headed home to play the...
The strange phenomenon of Black Friday
By Mountain Taylor Reader Contributor It’s almost time for that magical night spent waiting outside a megastore in the cold, just hours after Thanksgiving, primed for those doors to open, revealing one-day-only super-bargains. Deals...
