By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist After months of planning and anticipating the arrival of youngest daughter Casey’s family (the Chicago Four), their move to Spokane is (mostly) complete. For the first time in a...
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist We received our first negative review recently. It came from someone we’ve never even met, let alone worked for. It came from someone disappointed in our inability to...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The ability to learn isn’t a human-specific trait. Every organic creature from the blue whale to bacteria have some capacity for learning — otherwise we would never have evolved...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Idaho Department of Lands is reaping a windfall of dollars in 2021, as 16 endowment-owned lakefront lots at Priest Lake recently sold for more than $13.1 million —...
By Reader Staff The start of the 2021-’22 school year is just around the corner and city of Sandpoint crews have been preparing to keep kids safe. New signs have been installed in school...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The premise of Night of the Bards is simple — Sandpoint is home to great thespian talents, so why not put them on display for everyone to enjoy? “There’s...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff In order to balance the 2022 budget, Bonner County commissioners voted Aug. 23 to take $2.7 million in forgone taxes — a move prompted by new state legislation, increased...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Bonner County commissioners voted to change the polling places for nine different precincts Aug. 24, with the change going into effect for the November 2021 election “and beyond,” according...
By Reader Staff Public, state and tribal land managers in the Coeur d’Alene Dispatch Zone — which encompasses Bonner County — will rescind fire restrictions on Friday, Aug. 27. While the decision is driven...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff When the going got tough, the Stillhouse Junkies got creative. When the pandemic put a hold on live music in spring 2020, Colorado string trio Stillhouse Junkies — Fred...
