By Shawn Keough Special to the Reader The first day of school for students in the Lake Pend Oreille School District is just about five weeks away. Gov. Brad Little and the Idaho State...
By Lorraine H. Marie Reader Columnist East, west or beyond, sooner or later events elsewhere may have a local impact. A recent sampling: The Trump administration’s Food Safety and Inspection Service recently approved a...
By Reader Staff This year marks the Angels Over Sandpoint’s 18th annual Back to School program, providing school supplies to students in Bonner County. The nonprofit organization remains committed to continuing the much-needed tradition...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Judith Carpenter, the woman accused of shooting and killing 79-year-old Hope resident Shirley Ramey at her Trestle Creek home in April 2017, will see a jury trial in December...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Bonner County Board of Commissioners gave the unanimous go-ahead July 28 for Solid Waste personnel to pursue a new waste collection site in Laclede. The board approved a contract...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff When the Panhandle Health District board met July 23 to vote on a possible mask mandate for Kootenai County to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, the motion...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Lake Pend Oreille School District is nearing a final plan for how the 2020-2021 academic year will play out amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has risen to...
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist I opened Pandora.com to my “Three Dog Night” station the other day, feeling nostalgic toward those late-’60s and early-’70s songs about love, debauchery, altered states and, oh yeah, changing...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff In early times, songs were passed down by generations like oral histories. Even two or three generations back, songs had to be experienced either in a person’s home or...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Home gardeners in the Idaho panhandle are starting to see the fruits of their Memorial Day planting labors. After a wet and cloudy start to summer, tomatoes are flowering...
