Author: Ben Olson

Attack of the little blue bugs

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff They’re ba-aack. Step foot outside, and it’s impossible to ignore the swarms of flying insects, the menaces to bikers everywhere. They get in your hair, up your nose and...

Response to mayoral questionnaire

We asked contributors Stephen Drinkard and Dan McDonald to give their analyses of the Sandpoint mayoral candidates’ answers to our questionnaire. Want to respond on your own? Write to [email protected] By Stephen Drinkard Reader...

The Call of the Wild:

By Don Otis Reader Columnist We made our way to the Chimney Rock trailhead late last fall hoping to summit 7181’ Silver Dollar Peak. Two miles up we left the well-maintained trail and headed...

Poverty in North Idaho

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Editor’s note: This article is the first in a multi-part series exploring the problem of poverty in Bonner County. Poverty in Sandpoint has long been regarded as an invisible...