Sandpoint-based cinematographer’s latest work released
By Ben Olson Reader Staff If you’ve spent more than a minute in North Idaho, you may have commented how it seems this region is beautiful enough to be a film backdrop. For Sandpoint-based...
Author: Lyndsie Kiebert
Free at-home COVID-19 tests now available in Idaho
By Reader Staff The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare announced June 15 that it has begun offering free, at-home coronavirus tests to Idaho residents, reiterating in a media release that “anyone who experiences...
Bits ‘n’ Pieces: June 17, 2021
By Lorraine H. Marie Reader Columnist East, west or beyond, sooner or later events elsewhere may have a local impact. A recent sampling, much of it about fossil fuels: Methane-filled livestock belches are equal...
BCEDC seeking full-time executive director
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As Bonner County — and Idaho in general — is experiencing a boom in new residents, that also means the potential for a major upswing in local economic activity....
As if Boyer Slough hasn’t had enough
By Steve Holt Reader Contributor While Bonner County’s decision regarding changing the shoreline code has been seemingly postponed, the county’s ability to completely ignore certain environmental codes is prevalent. Boyer Slough, located just west...
Taking the sand out of ‘Sand Point’
By Hannah Combs and Will Valentine Reader Contributors “‘Sandpoint’ suggests and always will suggest to the outsider a dreary waste of blowing sand,” wrote George R. Barker, editor of the Pend d’Oreille Review newspaper,...
It takes two
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff With big life changes often comes a hankering for a new challenge. This is true for Hope residents Kathy and Denny Gorup, who launched head first into life as...
Even at their most inept, dads are the best
By Ben Olson Reader Staff When I was a kid, I remember no authority more powerful and all-knowing than my dad. When you skinned your knee or needed help with a last-minute school project,...
Dads on film
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Stereotypes abound when it comes to “dad movies”: Dads love war movies, so the culture tells us. Dads like films about history in general: knights and pirates; explorers, space-...
Father’s Day 2021
Every dad gets his day on Sunday, June 20, when we make an especial effort to honor the patres familias in our lives. Be they the dads we have by biology, the dads we’ve...
