Bits ‘n’ Pieces: August 6, 2020
By Lorraine H. Marie Reader Columnist East, west or beyond, sooner or later events elsewhere may have a local impact. A recent sampling: The city council of Asheville, N.C., voted 7-0 in favor of...
Author: Lyndsie Kiebert
Idaho Ag. Department cautions against unsolicited seed packages from China
By Reader Staff Since late July, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been investigating reports of people around the country receiving suspicious packets apparently mailed from China and containing seeds. According to The New...
Gov. Little to call special legislative session
By Reader Staff Idaho Gov. Brad Little announced Aug. 5 that he will call the Legislature to a special session the week of Aug. 24. According to a news release from the governor’s office,...
Heartbreak as emergency crews recover child who drowned in Sand Creek
By Reader Staff The community is mourning a 7-year-old boy who drowned during the afternoon of Aug. 4 in a stretch of Sand Creek between Sandpoint and Ponderay. Emergency crews responded to the...
SCOTUS places stay on Idaho education funding initiative
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Reclaim Idaho’s education funding ballot initiative effectively met its end July 30, when the Supreme Court of the United States issued a stay on the group’s lawsuit against state...
E. Bonner libraries shift back to curbside service
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The East Bonner County Library District closed its doors and transitioned back to a curbside pick-up system on Aug. 1 due to the rising number of novel coronavirus cases...
Summer of our discontent
By Lyndsie Kiebert and Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Both the state and Panhandle Health District continue their upward trend in new cases of the novel coronavirus, as the latter — which covers Idaho’s five...
Ponderay seeks feedback for cleanup and use of lakeshore property
By Reader Staff The city of Ponderay recently received a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to plan for the cleanup and reuse of a contaminated publicly owned property on the shore of...
Trail Dispatches: What’s happening with Pend Oreille Pedalers
By Jason Welker Reader Contributor There’s something happening in those hills on the edge of town. If you’ve been on a walk in the Syringa Trail Network or above the roundabout on Schweitzer Mountain...
There’s dogs in them thar hills
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The only thing more fun than jumping into a mountain lake at the end of a grueling North Idaho trail is doing so with your slobbery, happy best friend....
